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Angry Haiku (NSFW Language)
Culture Buzz Express your rage in three lines and seventeen syllables here.
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Excerpts From Bad Twilight Poetry
Culture Buzz It's National Bad Poetry Day! To celebrate, here's a collection of “poetry” straight from the most romantic fandom on earth: Twilight.
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Video: 3-Year-Old Recites 30 Line Poem From Memory
The poem is “Litany,” by Billy Collins, who used to be Poet Laureate FYI. Here is the text of the poem, if you can read through your tears of joy and life-affirming-ness.
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Poetry Battle: Let’s Pick A Winner!
Sports Buzz BuzzFeed's 10-person poetry staff has narrowed the results of last Friday's Poetry Battle down to three finalists, but after 72 hours of debate, we're still unable to choose the clear victor. They're all so good! So check out these dramatic readings of the three contenders by your host, Jack Shepherd, and weigh in with your own input. It's a battle: Three poems enter, one poem leave!!!
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Image: I Wandered 'Round The Internet [Poem Battle]
I'm going to kick off Poetry Battle in style, with a lyrical ballad devoted to my favorite keyboard playing cat. Submit your own poem to the Poetry Battle for a chance to have it read aloud by BuzzFeed's own Jack Shepherd (in his native British accent!).
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Image: Where The Sidewalk Ends
Found it! There is also a real live Peggy Ann McKay on Facebook, FYI. (There is a very good chance that I will spend the rest of my afternoon reading Shel Silverstein now.)
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Image: Free Verse
A group Flickr Pool devoted to poetry in unusual places—like arms, wheelbarrows, cakes, etc. It is refreshingly light on the Neruda.
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Image: Michael Jackson’s Naughty Poem
In the latest round of Michael Jackson's weird stuff auctions there's a poem about doing it with children. It goes: “Children of the world, we'll do it, with song and dance and innocent bliss, and the soft caress of a loving kiss, we'll do it.” Note to the children: don't do it.
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Video: Poetry Animations
Mental Floss uncovered this trippy and extensive YouTube channel featuring poet photos animated to “read” their poems. Oh my god, Sylvia Plath is staring right at me. I'm not Ted Hughes, I don't deserve this.
