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AT&T; Trims U-Verse Rollout Estimate

AT&T; Inc. cut its forecast Tuesday for how many homes will have access to U-verse, the service that sends cable TV through home phone lines.

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Why You Should Read Poetry...Yes, Poetry

Source: The Huffington Post

If you grew up in America, it might surprise you to learn that a poet has ever had that sort of impact. Poetry here is best known for the simple, sentimental verses found in Hallmark cards and the lyrics of pop music. The word "poet" probably calls to mind some weirdo in a beret.

In the sunlight

Basking and glowing ever more The swath of light with harmonious glare This is what the light of sun should be Instead the way it glows is similar to being burnt

Homeless

was it all wasted? the days you spent sleeping on the sand under hot sunlight that burns and scorches your skin

Limericks Of Evolution

Source: scq.ubc.ca

There once was a young man named Darwin Who spent five years tossed to the far wind He wrote a book for his peers After only twenty short years And now he's as pop as George Carlin.

Watercolor World

When I was just quite small I was given A beautiful panda bear paintbox Inside the most cheerful ovals I ever did see With it I decided I would paint my world Just as it should be Bright, shiny, free Green leaves and yellow suns

I Witness (Tortured Soul)

As I lay Forced to watch Unable to avert my eyes She informs me If I should look away I will see her anyway Hear her screams Writhing Crying Strips of herself tear apart and fall As if burned I am sickened by it all

Soothsaid (learned lesson)

Today provided evidentiary proof Catalyst status It is what I shall learn to embrace A new role S'been brought into glaring relief Focus No longer abstract S'real as rain

T'was All in Theory Just (what wasn't said)

What was it That we expected Relief Just a little I suppose In its stead Forlorn reaching justification Coming and going I see this Independent film Inside your head Each frame lovelier than the last

Drawing Down the Moon

She stands there Her feet firm On unstable ground Her weight distributed to the front of her feet Wind blows hard In bright darkness At waters edge Moon, water, wind Roar Knowing they are special Chosen The lady chose This night This moon This place

Butterfly Spirit

Flitter and flutter from flower to flower dancing the 'air-waltz' of butterflies. Dipping and flitting from hour to hour, nature's choreographer soaring in the skies.

Little Miss Saneeki Snail

Look at little Miss Saneeki Snail. Wherever she goes she leaves a trail. She thinks nobody sees her crawl. She thinks she isn't seen at all.

Rose's Thorn

Don't tick me off. Don't make me mad. Don't get me angry, or make me sad. I'm not afraid, and certainly not scared. I'm not a pushover, so don't even go there.

The Rebirth and Becoming

As I sit in my chair I feel my body tire while the rest of my being seen and unseen is busy closes in and around itself self enveloped a metamorphosis is taking place right under my own nose literally I rejoice in this becoming as I die here alone I am not afraid I thankfully and …

Poetry or Verse?: My Wish for Life

Let me be as proud of my failures as I am my triumphs, I would not be the person I that I am without both, For failure has built my strength and character, Without failure I would have not known triumph.

would you fight for love?

Source: eggbeater.typepad.com

would you fight for love? what's the worst thing that can happen if you let someone in? all the way?

Urban Poetry Walk Takes Verse to the Streets

Source: media-newswire.com

April is National Poetry Month, a time when communities across the United States popularize poetry. In New York, restaurants place poems inside diners' menus. All over, transit systems are "advertising" poems on buses and in subway trains.

Norris Hall

This is a folk song Take me down to Norris Hall And let me see the crime My eyes hold the sounds of guns The crooked smell of time Well half the mountains Filled with pain With coal and diamond tongues And when the sun sets down the hills The death smokes up our lungs

What to Do About Poetry

Source: Poetry Foundation

In a recent article on the Poetry Foundation, The New Yorker lobs the latest volley in an ongoing intellectual debate.

Win a $10,000 Purse for a Drama in English Verse

Source: Bits of News

Until the time of Ibsen, and birth of modern drama, any play worth the name needed to be something more than people talking on stage much as they would in their own living rooms. It had to be in verse.

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986, by William S. Burroughs

Source: realitystudio.org

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986 William S. Burroughs For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be @!$%# out through wholesome American guts — thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

New Jay-Z Song Leaked; Addresses Roc-A-Fella Split

Source: About.com

Jay-Z Adresses Roc-A-Fella Split on Kingdom Come

The News Can Always Be Verse

Source: The Washington Post

Civics in rhyme, one more time By Gene Weingarten Foley's Folly Higgledy Piggledy Congressman Foley's lewd IMs to youngsters show He's quite the louse. No one's applauding, but Oxymoronically This sleazeball's conduct might