"A middle-aged primary school teacher reciting a 1,300-year-old poem could become China's answer to an American Idol-type superstar thanks to on-line voting in a government-sponsored competition. The 40-year-old from the eastern Anhui Province, Fang Baojiu, was leading the...
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Ahmad Faraz is considered as one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the present times. Born as Syed Ahmad Shah in 1934, he breathed his last at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, last night (Monday, August 25,...
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News without opinion. " Celebrated poet (Mahmoud Darwish) passes at age 67 in Houston hospital following complications after open-heart surgery " "Revered as the Palestinians' national poet, Darwish was...
created by korzac | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 405 views | 7 recommendations | 6 comments
Stones are much slower than animals. Plants give more smell when the rain falls. When winter comes, swallows fly to summer. Pigeons love corn and breadcrumbs. The rains come from water the sun evaporates. When people come from far away they carry bags. When fish swim...
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Hundreds of young bards were hosted by the Queen in the culmination of of an initiative to "breed poet laureates of the future".
Teenagers from state schools across London attended a reception at Buckingham Palace after penning poems inspired by items from the Royal...
witness to the light of daybring me joy and hope I pray
witness to the dark of nightmy soul prepares for this flight
to the sun, the sky, my soulreleases all the thoughts of oldand purges things that bring my painI found my hope, my strength again
For all the nights, the dark...
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"There are some songs that speak the language of your soul. They cradle and soothe your spirit. You have no choice but to like them, for your being has decreed it so--they speak its language, not yours.
For me,...
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A new event brought to you by Varoush and the folks who did "Goodbye Car Wash". "outside the box
a happening at mountainview cemetery
fraser between 33 & 41st in vancouver
saturday aug 12 2006
7pm to 11pm
bring your drums, your poems, your music and markers!
open stage,...
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