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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Poem for the Holidays
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Rochester Post-Bulletin:
You’re a poet & didn’t even know it

Cook County News-Herald:
How to turn boring holiday brag-letters into amusing (and interesting) brag-poems


BragPoem.Com is the fun and quick way to tell your relatives and friends about what's been happening with your family for the year. Let us write it in verse for you!

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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Carl Sandburg

Write drunk, revise sober.
Miller Williams

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
Henry W. Longfellow

Christmas is coming!
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What do people really think of your brag letters? Read this:

THE BRAG POEM BEFORE CHRISTMAS
by Steve LeBeau

‘Twas the week before Christmas
When all through the mail
The cards were arriving
Through snow, sleet and hail

Inside a few
Were those boring brag letters
From your so-called friends
Who should have known better

You open them up
With slight hesitation
‘Cause you don’t want to hear
About their summer vacation

The writing is dull
It starts like a pain
And as you read on
It numbs your whole brain

The words are too small
The lines run together
Your head starts to nod
And you drool on your sweater

But then a door slams
Your kids just came home
They rip open a card
And yell, “Look here’s a poem!”

You awake with a start
And try not to curse
Then you see that your cousin
Sent a brag letter in verse

You read it out loud
They laugh and they grin
“Hey, that was funny!
Read it again!”

The rhythm and rhymes
Keep rolling with cheer
And you exclaim to yourself
“I’m doing a brag poem next year!”

© 2006 Steve LeBeau

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Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
Robert Lowell

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild ...
Boris Pasternak

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.
Ranier Maria Rilke

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

Assist me some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonneteer. Devise, wit, write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
William Shakespeare

Poetry ... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats