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  2. Performance poetry - Wikipedia

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    Performance poetry is not solely a postmodern phenomenon. It began with the performance of oral poems in pre-literate societies. By definition, these poems were transmitted orally from performer to performer and were constructed using devices such as repetition, alliteration, rhyme and kennings to facilitate memorization and recall.

  3. Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes - Wikipedia

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    Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:

  4. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is normally dramatic, with various characters. [1] Narrative poems include all epic poetry, and the various types of "lay", [2] most ballads, and some idylls, as well as many poems not falling into a ...

  5. 20 Popular Short Poems for Kids - AOL

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    These short poems for kids will be easy for your child to recite along with you while they unlock the best parts of their imagination. Best poems for kids Between nursery rhymes, storybooks ...

  6. Poetry reading - Wikipedia

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    A poem must work from the platform but it must also work on the page." [ 6 ] Afroamerican poet Maya Angelou was a friend of Malcolm X , and she performanced poetry reading. [ 12 ] Radical poet group The Last Poets performanced poetry reading with African conga, and Gil Scott-Heron play poetry reading with jazz music.

  7. Lists of poems - Wikipedia

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    List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell

  8. Pomes Penyeach - Wikipedia

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    The word "love" appears thirteen times in this collection of thirteen short poems (and the word "heart" appears almost as frequently) in a variety of contexts. Sometimes romantic love is intended, in tones that vary from sentimental or nostalgic ("O sighing grasses,/ Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!") to scathing ("They mouth love's ...

  9. The Centipede's Dilemma - Wikipedia

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    "The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome.The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it.