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i think i've been permanently banned from commenting on the ROD blog T_T i've been trying to leave comments and they keep getting filtered out.

it all started when i left a comment at giyenah's post with links to my current favorite poems, i think. i'll just repost that comment here. the first thing i said was that she and mia found very lovely poems ♥ and then i said:

i visit breathe_poetry now and then and there are some beautiful modern poems to be found there, but greatpoets is my favorite haunt. the grand mix of classic and contemporary (plus the occasional non-english poetry, translated) makes for a good variety.

here are links to some of my all-time favorites, discovered through the comm:

"Talk" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Under a Certain Little Star" by Wislawa Szymborska
"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem" by Bob Hicok
"You Bring Out the Mexican in Me" by Sandra Cisneros
"What Do Women Want?" by Kim Addonizio

my current favorite poem is "Sweetness" by Stephen Dunn. Dunn has also employed one of my all-time favorite ways of describing poetry:

[...] Laugh at
yourself, laugh at this poem, at all poetry.
Come on:

Good. Now here's what poetry can do.

Imagine yourself a caterpillar.
There's an awful shrug and, suddenly,
You're beautiful for as long as you live.

in addition to these i discovered richard siken recently, though i'm not sure i can count him in with my all-time faves just yet. his "A Primer for the Small Weird Loves" simply affected me like wow.

the powerful first stanza is what most people often quote, but i personally love these two:

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ps, for my reference:

keiohwai texted me this last night while i was sliding in and out of delirium:

Bhex's AoA fansite was able to obtain original art used for one of the covers of Unbelievers Unlimited in an auction held at the 5th annual NWA event last Oct.

psychic press release, what? i'd sure love to see this gorgeous original cover art bhex was said to have obtained (and to know exactly how much bhex apparently obtained it for :P)!