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What Sends Them Harvard Poets

For Langston Hughes What sends them Harvard poets I just couldn't do it, Sir: What sends them Harvard poets I just couldn't do it, Sir: They'll never give me a Pulitzer. What tickles them Yale poets Just leaves me sad an' a grievin': What tickles them Yale poets Leaves me sad an' a grievin': Never seen no Birch trees On a snowy evenin'. Then Oxford poets got they poems An' I gots mine... So I'll be movin' on, Langston Movin' down the line.... Michael Ellis

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John Fleming

Date: 5/1/2021 7:50:00 AM

When Ezra Pound was alive and writing poetry he had a very small circulation...people were, in the main, still only reading and appreciating poets like Yeats, Tennyson and Keats. Ezra was different...he studied not just the classics...but also Chinese and Japanese poetry. He came to realize that the Western idea of poetry was too narrow...too confining. He ignored all criticism and slurs and just simply ploughed on. He was without doubt a towering genius!! Love the sentiment expressed here! john

Michael Ellis
Date: 5/9/2021 11:39:00 AM

Thank You. There are so many roadblocks. I knew this at seventeen. I taught myself to write in twelve genres so no one can hinder me. I wanted to write as Black as I could White as male as I could female. I even used multiple names so the light would get through. It was climbing ten mountains to get over one. I was featured in a film on Amazon Prime but no one knows. The Irony. A secret told to myself.

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 4/21/2021 6:00:00 AM

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L Milton Hankins

Date: 4/18/2021 7:41:00 PM

Wonderful poem, Michael. I enjoyed it immensely. Keep up the good writing!

Michael Ellis
Date: 5/9/2021 11:41:00 AM

Yes Poetry is a light we must shine on others. We are the healers and entertainers that do it for free..Happy Mother's Day