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Brooke Astor turns 94 this week. And what better present than to have a poem (four lines, rhyming couplets, iambic tetrameter) published for the first time in the New Yorker last week? The philanthropic nonagenarian told the New York Times that she has been writing verse since she was six. The New Yorker is publishing only three of her works, so there's plenty of material left. Does Modern Maturity take poetry...
ABOUT THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN TELL that the best Thoroughbred in the world rooms and boards in one of the stalls of Barn 7 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida, is by the poem taped to the door of trainer Bill Mott's office. "Once in a lifetime/ It's said about horses like you," writes one Kristen Sharer. "But to you, that's nothing./You've more winning...
...poem on the door says, "It's the lead you seek/When you look them in the eye./Their hearts must be breaking/As you glide right...
...right, so I knew the chips were down, but I still had a few aces up my sleeve. This was, after all, a woman who admitted to having been seriously persuaded by John Donne's poem "The Flea" ("Mark but this flea and mark in this,/ How little that which thou deny'st me is..."), so I figured a well-timed sonnet could make all the difference...
...fould cometh there to chese his make," Chauser wrote in his "Parliament of Fowls." Apparently, the birds come together on St. Valentine's Day to celebrate the beauty of spring by enjoying their new mates. This was not such a happy occassion for the poet, who complains in the poem about swarms of mating birds, who tormented him with their noise and crowded the poor poet out of his garden...