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We Fall in Love With Whoever Reads the Poem to Us
For everyone who misses the voice that used to read poems out loud
The Sweetest Revenge in Poetry
Inside the poem you know by heart, there is a hidden door, and it was left unlocked for you
Today, the poem sounds almost prophetic
Poems That Make Grown Substackers Cry
Quotations Without Quotation Marks
How another person’s language becomes your belief
You’ll be returning to this often
this really is a blessing for any one who lost someone they loved
A Gardener Does Not Tell the Seed What to Become
The Poem Was Made for the Restack Button
It turns everyone into a poet, even against their will
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race" DPS
The Father as the Real Poet
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom” Umberto Eco
Your poem already knows where your heart is going before you do
on the one move a poem can make that nothing else can
nice to meet a real poet
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With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
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The Poem at the Heart
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The Thief Was the Muse
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