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What I’m Writing – (Projects and Collections)

Posted on May 31, 2011 by literarylee

Directly below the header (the picture across the top of the page) are several tabs with basic information.  One tab, “What I’m Writing,” contains brief descriptions of the various projects I’m working on.  Most of what I am writing so … Continue reading →

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Memorizing Poems

Posted on May 9, 2011 by literarylee

How it all Started In August 2008, my wife watched Out of Africa one weekend I was out of town.  Near the end of the movie, Karen walks into the men’s club bar and offers the toast: “Rose lipt maidens, … Continue reading →

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I Have Longed to Move Away

Posted on April 26, 2011 by literarylee

Dylan Thomas I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors’ continual cry Growing more terrible as the day Goes over the hill into the deep sea; I have longed to move … Continue reading →

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A Little Madness

Posted on April 25, 2011 by literarylee

Emily Dickinson A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown — Who ponders this tremendous scene — This whole Experiment of Green — As if it were his own!

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You’re Fifty!

Posted on April 2, 2011 by literarylee

Congrats! You’ve reached that magic age that we consider nifty, The point at which the fun begins, Our friend, you now are fifty! What would you like to do from here is what you now can ask, Work, study, travel, … Continue reading →

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Poem Memorization Tip Number Nine Revisited (put the children to bed before reading this)

Posted on March 17, 2011 by literarylee

Still working on the poem, To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing by William Butler Yeats.  Here’s what I’ve memorized so far: Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For … Continue reading →

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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing

Posted on March 17, 2011 by literarylee

William Butler Yeats Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own … Continue reading →

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Out of the rolling ocean the crowd

Posted on March 13, 2011 by literarylee

Walt Whitman Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me, whispering, I love you, before long I die, I have travell’d a long way merely to look on you to touch you, For I could … Continue reading →

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Dream Deferred

Posted on March 9, 2011 by literarylee

Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy … Continue reading →

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Poem Memorization Tip Number Nine

Posted on February 24, 2011 by literarylee

I’m working on the poem, To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing by William Butler Yeats.  Here’s what I’ve memorized so far: Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For … Continue reading →

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