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Poetry is a form of breathing--you breathe in and out. Breathe in poems; let it play in your mind or feel the tingling sensation when it delves into your soul. And when you let it linger in your thoughts, your feelings and your dreams, you will eventually breathe out poems, let the haunting music from the poem make you throb with words. Breathe in. Breathe out.
Synopsis

dream - dream - dream - dream until to the end draws nigh to wake up and breath high
 
Poetry
Exact by Rae Armantrout
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Muse & Drudge [just as I am I come] by Harryette Mullen
Barter by Sara Teasdale
Faults by Sara Teasdale
The Falling Star by Sara Teasdale
The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] by Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember] by Christina Rossetti
Clouds by Christina Rossetti
Diary [Surface] by Rachel Zucker
Eternity by William Blake
I'm Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats
Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti
this kind of fire by Charles Bukowski
Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson
Blue Dementia by Yusef Komunyakaa
Scumble by Rae Armantrout
Unbidden by Rae Armantrout
Custom by Rae Armantrout
The Look by Sara Teasdale
There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale
I Love You by Sara Teasdale
After Love by Sara Teasdale
Poems for Blok, 1 by Marina Tsvetaeva
Untitled [Whence cometh such tender rapture?] by Marina Tsvetaeva
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Her Kind by Anne Sexton
The Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
I have lived in your face by Jean Valentine
Red Cloth by Jean Valentine
I Might Have Dreamed This by Kirsten Dierking
Choke by Eileen Myles
A Love Song by William Carlos Williams
Insomnia by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron
Shedding Skin by Harryette Mullen
The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
What Things Want by Robert Bly
A Drinking Song by W. B. Yeats
Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin
Before by Carl Adamshick
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
Haunted by Naomi Shihab Nye
Hysteria by T. S. Eliot
In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Love's Secret by William Blake
November Night by Adelaide Crapsey
O, Gather Me the Rose by William Ernest Henley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Parent's Pantoum by Carolyn Kizer
Rain by Claribel Alegría
Science by Robert Kelly
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare
Stillbirth by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
To the Moon [fragment] by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
What the Angels Left by Marie Howe
Yellow Bowl by Rachel Contreni Flynn
 
Prose
Dead Poets Society
 
Poets
Charles Bukowski
Sylvia Plath
Sara Teasdale
Rae Armantrout
Christina Rossetti
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