Modern Poetry Appreciator Pillows

Two More Poems from Ted Hughes

"You're going to hate yourself."

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

"Out damn Spot

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Iliadette.

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

'Say baby - 'come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove, that valleys, groves, hills and fields,woods or steepy mountain yields' - Marlowe.'

Thomas Hardy

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

Henrik Ibsen,

Sinking with your heart

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."

Lord Byron

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'

Limerick Airport

"Just what is a runcible spoon?"

Leda knew it was serious when the visited Ikea together.

How a poet works

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

Never write a sonnet on an empty stomach

"Nevermore."

'Isn't that wonderful? We both suffer from intellectual angst!'

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

Two love poems in swimming pool. Shallow end and deep end.

This man is an island.

Emily Dickinson at a Cocktail Party: "I;m Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too?"

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'