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The Poetry of Arthur Rimbaud

November 30, 2024November 30, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Arthur Rimbaud turned his back on poetry at the age of 20, or around 1875. The rest of his life, 17 years, […]

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Marcus Aurelius and Wordsworth

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you’ll grow double (from ‘The Tables Turned’, William Wordsworth) But cast away […]

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O’Shaughnessy: An Ode

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Arthur O’Shaughnessy left one good poem behind. Many other Victorian poets left a few good poems behind and they are welcomed in […]

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Hazel Anna Rogers

The Words Are True, And Love Runs Through Them As Clearly As Water.

January 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I have been writing poetry for many years now. Lust was the hallmark of my earlier works, though not always of […]

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Fernando Pessoa: Alchemist of Sensations

October 13, 2021June 25, 2023 Carl Kruse

by Asia Leonardi  “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear […]

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Dana Gioia’s “Summer Storm”

September 5, 2021September 6, 2021 Carl Kruse

I always liked Dana Gioia’s poem “Summer Storm” and as we leave summer I thought I would share it with the blog. My friend Hazel says this was the poem […]

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Nighttime

A Poem by Hazel Anna Rogers

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Carl Kruse

I wake, open, Into the arms of the gentle night. Not yet do the silhouettes of naked boughs Charm the light, Nor has the soft chatter of sharp beaks Set […]

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A Poem by Monica Korycinska

October 20, 2020February 7, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse My friend Monica’s mom ended her life following years of chronic pain and Monica penned this poem for her. At first I thought Monica had not titled […]

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Coleridge

A Few Words on Coleridge

October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 Carl Kruse

By Fraser Hibbitt There is something lovable in the cursory brain. I had read Virginia Woolf describing the poet, Coleridge, as ravenously talking for hours on end about anything his […]

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Otho Campbell

Poems by Otho Campbell

August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 Carl Kruse

Here are some poems from my friend Otho Campbell. As he did not title them, I follow the way Emily Dickinson poems are labelled, which is to say by the […]

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