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  1. You embrace a whole world without once caring / To set it in order. That takes thought. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  2. RT @griffinpoetry: Billy Collins & Charles Simic contribute to anthology capturing the pitfalls of the holiday season - http://bit.ly/5Hrj8c
  3. Necessary it is to love to live / and there are many manuals / but in all important ways / one is on one's own. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  4. A mongoose charges dry grass and fades through a fence / faster than an afterthought. Dust rises easily.http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  5. Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud / to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  6. Animated interpretations of POL poems, archival video of Frost reading "Stopping by Woods..." http://www.poetryoutloud.or...
  7. We need each others’ / breathing, warmth, surviving / is the only war / we can afford, stay / walking with me, http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  8. With ancient stubbornness ingrained, / Although her body clung and swarmed, / My own identity remained. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  9. I love thee with the passion put to use / In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. Browning http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  10. The boot is famous to the earth, / more famous than the dress shoe, / which is famous only to floors. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  11. I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life./I want a peek at the back/Where it’s rough and untended...http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  12. To die, and leave their children free, / Bid Time and Nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to them and thee http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  13. I will love thee still, my dear, / While the sands o’ life shall run. Poet of the Day Robert Burns http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  14. Minnesota Public Radio story on an immigrant's experience learning English and reciting poetry http://www.poetryoutloud.or...
  15. What my father loved about my mother was not /Just the beauty of her body and face, but the practice /Of her ideas http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  16. Mother Love and Maker, Light Divine, / Atomic Fingertip, Cosmic Design, / First Letter of the Alphabet, Last Word http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  17. You might come here Sunday on a whim./ Say your life broke down. The last good kiss / you had was years ago. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  18. Don’t you fall now—/For I’se still goin’, honey,/I’se still climbin’,/And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg
  19. Videos of student poetry recitations from the 2009 National Finals are now available on the POL site. http://www.poetryoutloud.or...
  20. Poet of the Day A. Hudgins' narrative poetry, often darkly humorous, has a firm base in Southern culture. http://tinyurl.com/d4xvlg