Great Poetry

[vulcanlogician]

That's amazing.  Is it yours?

Boru

Sorry, no. It's by Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese poet. Forgot to add the author name and for some reason my copy/paste put bullet points in that aren't supposed to be there. If you like that, you may want to read a book by him called The Prophet. It's a book of prose poems written in biblical free verse. It's his masterwork. I recommend bouncing around and reading the chapters/topics that interest you rather than reading rather than reading it straight through (the chapters are very short and can be read in two or three minutes). The ones on love, friends, work, and death are amazing. But they all contain some pretty deep insights. He's one of my favorite poets.


Here's another Gibran poem you may like:

Faces

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould.

I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was.

I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.