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The Poets' Epic First Verses

7/26/2014

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The Poet's Epic has received many submissions so far. These are the first ones in the poem. If you have submitted a verse and received no reply it doesn't mean your poem is not in yet, as we are trying to weave together verses that bounce off each other. 

Outside on the street those starving for faith
congregate, as heretics and apostates shout
out blasphemy, “Poetry is dead!“ while true
believers retort,  “There is resurrection!”
~ Peter V. Dugan

Keep your poetry pure
allow no intrusion 
of self, others or false piety
~ Larry Jaffe

When the poem is free to be what it is meant to be
it is part human and part divine
'though you sign your name on a line.
~ Maria Manobianco

What mystery doest my mind unwrap
in words to be spoken in syncopated rhyme?
With musings I have set for myself a metered trap,
a snare upon the poet's path through time.
~ Donald E. Allen

To use words to illuminate the path 
as the watcher in the night lit the candles
of the streetlamps of old
~ James P. Wagner (Ishwa)
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    The Poets' Epic

    Welcome to the blog of the Poets' Epic--a project for the relevancy and importance of poetry written by poets themselves. 

    Our goal is to bring 1000 poets together to each contribute 1 verse to the poem. 
    Here we will be tracking our progress and posting the verses as they come.


    After all the verses are finally in, we will be putting the poem together into a book.

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