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#Poet Walt Whitman was born OTD in 1819. He's often called revolutionary for writing #gay poetry, but he was actually more revolutionary than that, championing a love between men he called "adhesiveness" that transcended sexual orientation. Here he is with his buddy Peter Doyle.

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Long ago I observed to my sainted mother that I didn't like Walt Whitman's poetry very much. Didn't "get" him.

She said, simply, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."

I looked it up and read it,
then re-read it,
read it again,
re-read it again.

It remains one of the most powerful pieces of writing about love and death I've ever encountered.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48858/out-of-the-cradle-endlessly-rocking

#poetry #poem #poet #poems

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metamorphosis
from hiding in a shell to
Ocean butterfly!

#DailyHaikuPrompt - May 19th - butterfly

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/deep-blue-nautilus-shell-beach-art-sharon-cummings.html

*Mixed Media photography, watercolor and hand place circles to create the pattern using PS. Yup, each circle was eyed and placed by me.

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #beach #beachlife #beaches #ocean #sea #nature #science #fractal #biology #marinebiology #marine #coastal

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"I want to create wilderness out of empire" - #poet Gary Snyder, here in 1947 working as a copyboy for the Oregonian. [colorized] #Beat #literature

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