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poem

noun as in highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece

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“Most homosexuals would not like / For me to admit that it is a social problem,” Whitten writes in the poem “Coming Out In Protest.”

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A thousand small cylindrical acrylic mirrors planted in the sand compose a Morse code poem imagining a dialogue between Tangun, the legendary founder of the first Korean kingdom, and an Egyptian pharaoh.

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The poem, dating from the early first millennium BCE, contains around 250 lines.

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The pair spoke about recording a poem and, soon after, Cale sent a recording for the song.

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Qian wrote poems about social responsibility, with lines such as: "We must love the elderly with the infatuation of a first romance."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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