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Hey, Catherine,

I already had something by Whitman and Frost. (I really wanted to put in something from “Once by the Pacific”). I don’t recognize the third. Even Google didn’t help.

Did you get which one was Shakespeare?

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I sing the body electric.

An odd planet, and those on it are odd too.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

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I think we're on the same page as writers: https://www.drmetablog.com/2008/04/advice-for-writ.html

. But I never had the imagination to write poetry.

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Yes, I left a comment on that post. I’m saddened that you think you lack imagination. It’s there, but you have to make it a practice.

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I don't read poetry as much as I used to/should, but highly recommend Ada Limón.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157046/foaling-season

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Thank you. Wonderful poem—horses! I’ve subscribed to her podcast, "The Slowdown." I got an email from the Christian Science Monitor today announcing their podcast, "Why We Wrote This." It seemed like serendipity, so I subscribed to it, too. Like I have time to listen to any of this.

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I remember so many of those poems. I loved memorizing old poems and reciting them. Odd, I’m sure. But thanks for the memories.

We read children’s poems to our boys when they were babies, long before they knew words. But they loved the rhythms and our varied voice inflections.

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