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Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Poem

Poetry

The first capturing your gaze into nowhere
the other when you covered your face with your hands
so you were not anonymous, only unseen

Michael Ondaatje
Poetry

a sunset makes a sound doesn't it
I learned    too late

James Fujinami Moore
Poetry

From time to time, language dies. / It is dying now. / Who is alive to speak it?

Fady Joudah
Poetry

Who did this to you?

Sean Patrick Mulroy
Poetry

in 1989 you walk the main road to /
Tiananmen when the inexplicable /
hits

Joseph Cuomo
Poetry

Why didn't I just say / people like us here / at this table / should not just talk about politics

Peter Dale Scott
Poetry

Relying a little less on the odd language we’d been left inside / we turned back to feeling: — / more moan, more mumble.

Joy Priest
Poetry

Drowning is something that happens to others, not to them.

Hannah Liberman
Poetry

trudging back to Eden.

Alfredo Véa Jr.
Poetry

Your lone question —
What happens when you ignore a part of someone? —
Would flood me, and in time, knock down
Every structure.

Wesley Rothman

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