Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is no such thing as an Eph--it's the nickname of our founder, Col. Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
...there is no such thing as an Eph - it's the shortened name of our founder, Colonel Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
...even wrote a poem about it. Here goes: Roses are red/violets are blue/poverty sucks/free Mumia...
...mother, sister and family friend had been missing for a month by the time Gina Sund read her poem in front of the thousand or so people who gathered in Modesto, Calif., March 14 to pray for the trio's safe return. "Deep in my heart I know something my mind does not want to learn," said Gina, 13, of Eureka, Calif. "I try to stay strong because I know that's what you'd want your baby to be, but, Mommy, I don't want you to leave...
...language never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde...