Category: love poetry
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Ten Thousand Thanks
_____ Thank you ten thousand times. Just a few hours ago, the most popular post yet here at Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, Alley War Poetry, received its 10,000th hit. That’s a lot of readers for a poetry blog post. I’ve had ten thousand thoughts come and go, about how good or…
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Life and Death from Beijing: a Poetry Sequence by Luisetta Mudie and Dreamer Fei
~~~~~ Editor’s note: The title of this post derives from one of the most important memoirs of the last century, Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, which came out in 1987. She recounts in that book her imprisonment by the Red Guard during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Politically speaking,…
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Lite Verse with No Cholesterol or Trans Fat, by 33 Already Dead Poets, 6 Unknown Anyway
~~~~~ The following poems are selected from the 1920 collection The Book of Humorous Verse, edited by Carolyn Wells (1862-1942). Each poet is represented only once, and in alphabetical order. However, links are provided so that you can investigate each one. ~~~~~ by L. J. Bridgman (1857-1931)…
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The Long-Awaited, Unabating, Top 30 All-Time Greatest Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
_____ Below is a countdown of the top 30 poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872, and died there in 1906. The poems included here are very enjoyable and speak very well to the world, some through dialect. They show Dunbar to be unique, important, and universal by…
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The Ella Wheeler Wilcox Top 30 Countdown
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919, was an American poet and mystic, one of the two poets I can find who was labelled as Poet Laureate of Humanity, the other being Rumi. As Rumi is today, she was known to be the most read poet in America in her time. There is much to find about her…
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