POETRY
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- fissi25
how much are you guys interested in poetry? whats your favorite poem? think and answer please.
- Nac0
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
..good stuff
- RFRSH0
I'm a big fan og Rebecca Lancaster. "Dove and Grey" is a beautiful poem.
Dove and Grey
To sift though sorrow
and tumble dry rolling
over memories.
If only to give tommorow back
In exchange for all these yesturdays.
- fissi250
Mine is this: RILKE
His gaze, going past those bars, has got so misted
with tiredness, it can take in nothing more.
He feels as though a thousand bars existed,
and no more world beyond them than before.Those supply powerful paddings, turning there
in tiniest of circles, well might be
the dance of forces round a centre where
some mighty will stands paralyticly.Just now and then the pupils' noiseless shutter
is lifted. - Then an image will indart,
down through the limbs' intensive stillness flutter,
and end its being in the heart.
- tenfour0
Oh
Wet pet(by Spike Milliagn)
- geerub0
Rodney Rude
- tenfour0
And there's a really long poem I like as well.
- anzelina0
poetry can go suck an egg.
just kidding.
i really like some stuff by margaret atwood [and others as well].
- scarabin0
ha, baudelaire was a pothead
- fissi250
whats your problem dude?
- scarabin0
i love baudelaire, man
- moveinspace0
"Between the idea
and the reality
between the motion
and the act
falls the shadow.
Between the desire
and the spasm
between the potency
and the existence
between the essence
and the descent
falls the shadow.
This is the way the world ends
not with a bang, but a whimper."t.s. eliot-the hollow men
- doesnotexist0
damn, no one digs e.e. cummings? he's tops.
"i go to this window" is great.
- visualplane0
I wrote this a few years ago:
Last Gaze
As I looked up into the sky,
I saw countless figures gently sliding down
with their statuesque physiques,
and draperies flowing in slow motion
As if they were sculpted from above
Their hands and arms angled out
As I looked higher above,
I saw a gleam of light
and wondered...
- Jaline0
Leonard Cohen, haha. Just some gibberish, actually, but I'm sure it meant something to him. I don't specifically like one poet (and I can't seem to remember any names right now), but there are some great ones out there. I tend to be quite introspective and weird.
- anzelina0
jaline, seriously, i think we are alternate egos or whatever that's called.
leonard cohen is all i've been talking about / listening to lately.
i also like the poetry of william carlos williams :
this is just to say
i have eaten
the plums
that were in
the iceboxand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastforgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
- Jaline0
I KNOW THAT ONE!
I love it :)
- mg330
I like e.e. cummings quite a bit. Used to read poetry pretty often, took a couple courses in college.
Don't write nearly as much as I used to and am hoping that I start again.
- Jaline0
I like e.e.cummings too. Just the juxtapositioning and the way the text seems to move around on a sheet.
- fissi250
cummings is a little bit like ernst jandl from austria.
- laurus0
maggie & millie & molly & may
. . . e. e. cummingsmaggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded star
who's rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:andmay came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.