The set-up: The poem’s hero is an ambitious young professor who desperately wants to tower over his colleagues and make the co-eds swoon. If only he could master the esoteric Lit Theory that dominates his campus…If only….Here’s how THEORYLAND starts…
CANTO I: AMBITION
Clarity is the cruelest mode,
patients aetherized on the table must be code.
How [...]
Have you heard the phrase The Wreck of the Hesperus? How about Ivan Skivinsky Skivar?
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The poem describes [...]
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CAT-ASTROPHE
She stepped into the blue ocean of morning,
and looked up towards the sky
& as her gaze moved up and up,
something odd atop a willow caught her eye
There, in the tall thin branches,
swaying in the wind,
A still & silent tabby was
curled amongst its limbs
She shouted to it, clapped her hands, her [...]
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My name is Jeffrey Michael Miller and my book entitled ” From The Inside Out ” is my first collection of poetry that’s been published through Publishamerica. The book is doing well and even though this is my first book I’ve been writing poetry for quite some time. I care about the art and how [...]
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