Tag: Love poetry
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Writing From the Classroom: Alejandra Gaspar
Alejandra, known by her friends as Ally, graduated from Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles, in 2016. The Dwelling Star Abandoned in connected ache, I mold- My bosom, rusting colors of warm wine, Then festering in ardor shant define Our spoiling youth engraved and uncontrolled. In your decay, I seek thy dust to hold;…
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How I Read a Poem
I remember when my seventh grade English teacher, Mrs. Lauderback, assigned us Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” She read it aloud, paused a couple of seconds, lifted her head from the book and asked us, “Okay, so, what does the poem mean?” I bet that happened to some of you. In that moment,…