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- By April Halprin WaylandMy sister found them. Read them out loud. She’s so proud, she’s running to our parents waving my poems in the ...
- By Nikki GrimesI am hardly ever able to sort through my memories and come away whole or untroubled. It is difficult...
- By Nikki GrimesI am a door of metaphor waiting to be opened. You’ll find no lock, no key. All are free to enter, at...
- By Chera HammonsApart, we are two quiet things: a person and an instrument. I in my body, the clarinet in its case. ...
- By Joyce Sidman“That kid is weird,” says the teacher, flipping her shining hair. “I don’t know where he’s at.” Indeed...
- By Naomi Shihab Nye1 Standing outside staring at a tree gentles our eyes We cheer to see fireflies winking again Where ...
- By John KeatsThou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian...
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- By Margarita EngleBooks are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone. But...
- By Margarita EngleCity life is a whirl of poetry readings and forbidden tertulias, gatherings where young and old, rich and poor...
- By Margarita EngleOn an island of music in a city of drumbeats the drum dream girl dreamed of pounding tall conga drums...
- By Francisco X. Alarcónwords are birds that arrive with books and spring they love clouds the wind and trees some words are...
- By Karen Jo ShapiroIf you can't wait to pick a book right now And read it through until the very end To find out who did...
- By Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough. - By Edgar Allan PoeOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
- By Percy Bysshe ShelleyI met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the ...
- By Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust...
- By J. Patrick LewisI came hungry into the world, and for that, look no further than my Pa. A history buff and a small-p...
- By Carole Boston WeatherfordCarole Robertston, Who loved books, earned straight A's, And took dance lessons every Saturday. Who ...
- By Shel SilversteinShe had the jitters She had the flu She showed up late She missed her cue She kicked the director She...