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Poetry is Life
Selected by Gladys Acosta-Melendez
Description

I used this title as a theme for a poetry jam I once coordinated for my school district. I wrote a poem with the same title. It is a simple idea. These are just a few of the poems that inspire me, make me happy, allow me to dream, help me to appreciate the people I love and make me think about the miracle that is life.
Synopsis

Poems about life.
 
Poetry
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] by William Shakespeare
Affirmation by Donald Hall
Alone by Maya Angelou
Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It's all I have to bring today (26) by Emily Dickinson
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog by Judith Viorst
On Gifts For Grace by Bernadette Mayer
Quilts by Nikki Giovanni
The light of a candle by Yosa Buson
The Teacher by Hilarie Jones
The Tyger by William Blake
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
This Day by Jimmy Santiago Baca
When You are Old by W. B. Yeats
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