Biography: Jacquii Cooke is a 32 year old Black Poet from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As Webmistress of Poetry in Color Forum, she is devoted to the more abstract styles, especially those with a strong feminine voice that center around the topic of redemption and righting the wrongs of past transgressions.
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Originally Posted by solo
and I was wondering what to have for supper!
Oh Good GAWD!
wow - And to think Shakespeare considered "demure" in relation to other poets of the time... Some of that quoted from MacBeth is downright gory, the Jew line = Interesting no doubt... I don't think I'd be trying that stew though...
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Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Dylan Thomas
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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
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Read this in high school and I think if helped me to realize how words you write can be so profound and long lasting. This is considered the best example of Villanelle ever done. I'll never argue with that, but I hope someday that someone else will.
Biography: Jacquii Cooke is a 32 year old Black Poet from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As Webmistress of Poetry in Color Forum, she is devoted to the more abstract styles, especially those with a strong feminine voice that center around the topic of redemption and righting the wrongs of past transgressions.
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Hmmm - don't think I can argue with it either MIKE - but I don't think I've a villanelle in my arsenal just yet --- And yes! I think I actually posted a challenge for poetry featuring that one particular line "Don't go gentle into that good night..." Maybe perhaps a poem based on that line... Yep - I searched - it's a POEM actually based off of another line: Rage rage against the dying of the light... http://jpicforum.info/miscellaneous/...ling-2599.html
Anyway - a FABULOUS poem no doubt - and right up there with the most quoted of any poetry I'd say. Perhaps we should have a Creativity Outlet challenge - the stipulation being to use either/or line within the poem... Hmmmm.... Thinking....
I'm a fan of Robert Frost and of Maya Angelou. I can remember my professor reading from I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (I think that's the title) about her toothache and getting the tooth pulled. My teeth ached so bad just listening to it! I was so impressed and fascinated by just that account that I went to the library and got that book! I know it's not a poem, but it was one of the reasons why I wanted to write because I wanted to be able to write as well as that.
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
The last three lines of the last stanza:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I remembered this from seventh or eighth grade English class. It's stuck with me all these years. "...the one less traveled by,..." I think of it often when I think of my life and how I've never traveled the path expected by others. It's why I consider myself 'unique' not 'weird'. Why should we always take the road everyone else does? I want to see what few others have seen, lol.
Interesting no doubt... I don't think I'd be trying that stew though...
--- And yes! I think I actually posted a challenge for poetry featuring that one particular line "Don't go gentle into that good night..." Maybe perhaps a poem based on that line... Yep - I searched - it's a POEM actually based off of another line: Rage rage against the dying of the light... 
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