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This section of "Poems & Quotes" is dedicated to poetry about life. You will find here lots of visitor submitted poems and quotes about society, meaning of life, faith and religion, inspirational poems etc.
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* May 6 - Renowned Puerto Rican poet Juan Manuel Rivera will present his book of poems entitled El planeta prohibido (Forbidden Planet). * May 19 - Award-wining Cuban author Mireya Robles discusses her new book Una mujer y otras cuatro (One Woman and Another Four). * May 23 - Best-selling Chilean author Isabel Allende will read from her new book El bosque de los pigmeos (The Forest of the Pygmies). * May 27 - Puerto Rican writer Ivan Silen presents his new book La muerte de mama (Mother's Death). This thought-provoking work incites readers to reexamine their ideas about culture, religion, and artistic expression.
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POEMS syndrome is so rare that physicians who do not have experience with the disease may miss the diagnosis. Physicians at Mayo Clinic have the skills and experience necessary to diagnose this rare condition. The overgrowth of plasma cells can often be detected by finding an abnormal protein in the blood or urine, by an abnormality on a bone X-ray and/or a bone marrow biopsy. Read more about diagnosis of POEMS Syndrome.
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Three collections of poems by novelist Michaels (Fugitive Pieces) have been brought together for their first U.S. publication: The Weight of Oranges, Miner's Pond and Skin Divers. As the sensuousness of these titles suggests, Michaels goes for a portentous lyric well-stocked with physical details, action verbs, simile and metaphor--"we are black smudges on the frozen river"; "We were sent for a reason,/ like curtains blown in from an open window/ to knock over a cup." When she writes from a perspective one assumes to be her own ("Miner's Pond"; "Words for the Body"), Michaels's lush and elliptical narratives are winning. Increasingly, her poems take historical figures and their lovers as subjects and speakers, echoing her work in historical fiction, and including Alfred Doblin, Johannes Kepler, Karen Blixen, Amedeo Modigliani, Anna Akhmatova and Marie Curie. These poems don't always carry the freight of their subjects' fame lightly, though, and by the book's second half the metaphors begin to misfire as bad homages, as in the Akhmatovesque "Birds plunge their cries like needles/ into the thick arm of afternoon." The worst merely recap generic moments of pathos in a tone more borrowed from biography than reanimated by sympathy.
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Additionally, in an age where pet tombstones adorn gardens and Web sites feature poems dedicated to the memory of beloved family cats and dogs, this new greeting card line's pet sympathy cards fill a very real need. In fact, for many owners, grief over the loss of a pet is every bit as deep as the grief over the death of any loved one. Research shows many Americans view their canine and feline companions as "children." A recent survey showed 85 percent of pet owners consider themselves "Mom" or "Dad" to their cat or dog.
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Lines of poems are often organized into stanzas, which are denominated by the number of lines included. Thus a collection of two lines is a couplet (or distich), three lines a triplet (or tercet), four lines a quatrain, five lines a quintain (or cinquain), six lines a sestet, and eight lines an octet. These lines may or may not relate to each other by rhyme or rhythm. For example, a couplet may be two lines with identical meters which rhyme or two lines held together by a common meter alone. Stanzas often have related couplets or triplets within them.
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