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nobody knows this little rose
i have heeded beautiful tempters i have
dared to do strange things i have
and bold things i have
asked no advice from and received none hon i have
differed often lately i have
dithered all of life
i have
not met the requirements
of a wife i have
seeded my life i have
been not born to have
been bridalled nor shrouded i have
lived i have
seen flowers at morning satisfied with the dew and those same flowers at noon with their heads bowed in anguish before the mighty sun i have identified my beautiful tempters i have
allowed them within to illuminate gently my life and crush it to sweet dust as well i have grown
my own roses my thorns my small colours bloom
i guess
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not a haiku
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random lines and thoughts from Emily Dickinson given a different life ( see link below )
btw
april 23 2023
The Bridge at Langport, Somerset
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April 23 2023 prompt
is a variation on a teaching exercise that the poet Anne Boyer uses with students studying the work of Emily Dickinson. As you may know, although Dickinson is now considered one of the most original and finest poets the United States has produced, she was not recognized in her own time. One reason her poems took a while to gain a favorable reception is their slippery, dash-filled lines. Those dashes baffled her readers so much that the 1924 edition of her complete poems replaced some with commas, and did away with others completely. Today's exercise asks you to do something similar, but in the interests of creativity, rather than ill-conceived "correction." Find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you've never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it! (Not sure where to find some Dickinson poems? You'll find oodles at the bottom of this page).
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