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[Understatement]

1. A disclosure or statement that is less than complete.
2. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.
3. Restraint in artistic expression.



Understatement.com is a non-profit portal, daily serving poetry-interested people all over the world exciting poems. More than 24.500 poems written by 3000 poets. terry Young is our most read poet. At the bottom, you'll find the 20 most read poems ever. 

At Understatement.com you may submit your poetry for free. Our goal is to maintain a high standard, with 100% pure quality contents. 

It all started in 98, when I built the labyrinth. The idea behind the labyrinth was to link word to word from one poem to another. The labyrinth is still a part of understatement.com,  though it hasn't been updated since 1999.

I received some requests for a poetry portal during this period, and started working on it during the spring of 2000. Since then understatement.com has become one of the largest poetry sites around. Without the great poets at understatement, that would never have been possible.

I want to thank a lot of people, especially Charlotte Noble and Kandi Horton. Charlotte is responsible for the quotes-pages. Kandi is doing hard work making the discussions the place for poets to discuss poetry. 

If you want to help out, please mail me at webmaster@understatement.com .

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(Most read by 01.16.03)

1 Terry Young		Jack Kerouac's Ghost
2 Dylan Thomas		Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
3 Terry Young		Notes From the Village
4 Marco A.Annunziata	Downtown's Drunken Serenity
5 Terry Young		Drums of War 
6 Marco A.Annunziata	JAZZ
7 Marco A.Annunziata	New York, New York
8 Bob Dylan		Buckets of Rain
9 William C. Williams	The Red Wheelbarrow
10 Bob Kaufman		I Have Folded My Sorrows
11 Edgar Allen Poe		The Raven
12 T.S.Eliot		Rhapsody on a Windy Night
13 Leonard Cohen	Famous Blue Raincoat
14 William Blake	The Thyger
15 Kandi Horton		As I Kneel
16 Pablo Neruda		Saddest Poem
17 Tara-Jane H. Zuk	Bus Station Cafe
18 Marco A.Annunziata	Parisian Sketch (2)
19 Marco A.Annunziata	Conversation, 122nd and Amsterdam 
20 Marco A.Annunziata	Busted
Take care,
Mr.P.