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Favorite Poems
#1
Favorite Poems
Cribbing off Zeus -

I'm always looking for new poetry to be exposed to. This one is one of my absolute favorites - and I have many.

Quote:somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

--- ee cummings

What are some of yours?
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#2
RE: Favorite Poems
Anything by Edgar Allen Poe, especially this one.






Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#3
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lol, Faith, that's a story, not a poem!

But I do love The Raven - cliché as that is. It has such wonderfully spooky imagery. The man was a genius

"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."

"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;"

"Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor."
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#4
RE: Favorite Poems
That's as close to poetry as I enjoy.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#5
RE: Favorite Poems
My arms are like the twisted thorn
And yet there beauty lay;
The first of all the tribe lay there
And did such pleasure take;
She who had brought great Hector down
And put all Troy to wreck.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#6
RE: Favorite Poems
And for EverythingAfter, who would frown if I didn't include one of the greatest poems in modern literature. Time and time again I return to this one:




I always thought of Chris Hitchens as a fairly unstoppable force, until he wrote an article about losing his voice in his cancer battle and quoted lines from this one, and I felt my eyes well up:

"I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid."

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RE: Favorite Poems
There was a young girl called Annie
who had a peculiar fanny
she went to the doc
he said thats a cock
now everyone calls her Danny.

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There was a young girl named Louise
Who’s pubes hung down to her knees
The crabs got together
To knit her a sweater
So in winter her twat wouldn’t freeze.

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There was an old man from Harrow
Who tried to have sex with a sparrow.
The sparrow said No,
You can’t have a go,
As the hole in my arse is too narrow
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#8
RE: Favorite Poems
I Know I Have Been Happiest

I know I have been happiest at your side;
But what is done, is done, and all's to be.
And small the good, to linger dolefully-
Gayly it lived, and gallantly it died.
I will not make you songs of hearts denied,
And you, being man, would have no tears of me,
And should I offer you fidelity,
You'd be, I think, a little terrified.

Yet this the need of woman, this her curse:
To range her little gifts, and give, and give,
Because the throb of giving's sweet to bear.
To you, who never begged me vows or verse,
My gift shall be my absence, while I live;
But after that, my dear, I cannot swear.

---Dorothy Parker
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RE: Favorite Poems
Here's one of my favourite poems. It's apparently quite famous in Britain, but for some reason, he's quite obscure in America. In fact, I'm considering writing a story based on the crimes of Cary Stayner and using a passage from the last stanza as the title:

They fuck you up, your mum and dad,
they may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
and add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
who half the time were soppy stern
and half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man,
it deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can
and don't have any kids yourself.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
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RE: Favorite Poems
If you cast your bread on the water
it returns a thousand fold
so it says in the bible
so I have been told

so I cast my bread on the water
it was spotted by a froggy
and all the bread he didnt eat
just floated back
all soggy

Spike milligan



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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