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Classic poem of the day

O spirit-land, thou land of dreams!
A world thou art of mysterious gleams,
Of startling voices, and sounds at strife —
A world of the dead in the hues of life.

Like a wizard's magic-glass thou art
When the wavy shadows float by, and part —
Visions of aspects, now loved, now strange,
Glimmering and mingling in ceaseless change.

Thou art like a city of the past
With its gorgeous halls into fragments cast,
Amidst whose ......

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Member poem of the day

These are free verse poems I have written over the last half century, and also a few rhyming poems about free verse.

Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch

I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!

But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is unpaid
and a crying shame.

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The AI Poets
by Michael R. ...

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