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All the Purple Iris: & More Poems

All the Purple Iris: & More Poems

Thornton, John S.

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN13: 9798886794816
Publisher: Luminare Press
Published: Jan 12 2024
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You only have to write a poem. It doesn't have to rhyme. Don't fret about form. It'll be good enough. It may be your last or, maybe, the first of many. Who knows?


The forty-four poems in this collection, All the Purple Iris, are, definitely, autobiographical and a kind of credo. It's all just I, watching the world, listening to the music it makes, trying to put it into words. It's an earnest effort to pay attention. A poem can make a long story short and often memorable, like When you are old and grey and full of sleep... (W. B. Yeats) or For this your mother sweated in the cold... (Edna St. Vincent Millay) or Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... (Robert Frost). Doesn't it enliven you?

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