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Can you help us find a poem?
The subject is father following his daughter down to the sea, collecting her discarded clothes as she goes. The final line is something like "where she's going I cannot follow". It was written in the last 20 years or so.
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Can you help us find a poem?
It's by a contemporary female poet. The speaker is riding in a car with her young daughter & the daughter asks if she's going to die. It includes the word backseat & the mother takes a beat to answer "no" & muses on her answer.
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Can you help us find a poem?
We've had an enquiry looking for a poem that begins something like:
You are roses to me / Not are roses / But roses / You are roses to me
The enquirer read it in a poetry magazine about a decade ago.
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Can anyone help us find a poem that includes the phrase "twisted columns of light", or something similar, as a description of the elderly just before they die.
We were given a clue that it was from a Mary Oliver poem but this doesn't seem to be the case.
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Can anyone help us identify this poem?🧐
An enquirer is looking for the poet's name and source of the poem - it was copied out during World War II by their father, an American soldier in the U.S. Marines.
The original source may be a newspaper or a magazine.
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Can anyone help us identify this poem?🧐
An enquirer is looking for the poet's name and title of the poem and this is what they can remember.
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Can anyone help us identify this poem?🧐
An enquirer is looking for the poet's name and title of the poem and this is what they can remember.
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We're looking for the rest of this poem, and the name of its author - can anyone help us track more details down?
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Can anyone help find a poem about hieroglyphs/ancient script that surmises the boring inventory on a tablet might be a love poem?
e.g. I love you like two goats staring at the sunset / like six camels swaying in their love like a caravan to market
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We're trying to find a poem about an Underground journey where the train stops briefly between Gloucester Road and High Street Kensington in midsummer. The poem is about the sights and sounds during the brief pause (echoes of Edward Thomas's Adlestrop)
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We're trying to trace a long poem called "The Ready Earth", set for O or A level English in the 70s in Belfast. It has the lines:
"Soon will the sun's blade wed the ready earth
And primrose rain spring green from a dry dust bed".
Can you help?
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Can anyone help with a Lost Quote we can't find the answer to? We're looking for a book that contains a poem which begins "Heli heli helicopter, Mrs Brown was shopping when it stopped her". The book had a white cover printed with an image of fairground carousel.
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Can anyone help us with a Lost Quote we can't find the answer to? We're looking for a poem heard on the radio that contains the line, "a mother who keeps moments in a locket like a compass for home”. Possibly called 'TLC Street'.
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