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Great Poetry
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Great Poetry
I love poetry. I'd like to hear favorite poems/poets from the people here.

I'll start with Ted Hughes (husband of Sylvia Plath), whose work I have been recently reading. His book Crow is amazing. The poems are connected to form a mythology centering around a Loki-like character- Crow- who interferes with and witnesses the imperfect creation of a violent world by a fallible god- an interesting read for theists and atheists alike.
Link to some of the poems

And here's a poem from it:

Crow's Theology

Crow realized God loved him-
Otherwise, he would have dropped dead.
So that was proved.
Crow reclined, marvelling, on his heart-beat.

And he realized that God spoke Crow-
Just existing was His revelation.

But what Loved the stones and spoke stone?
They seemed to exist too.
And what spoke that strange silence
After his clamour of caws faded?

And what loved the shot-pellets
That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows?
What spoke the silence of lead?

Crow realized there were two Gods-

One of them much bigger than the other
Loving his enemies
And having all the weapons.
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Great Poetry - by Zazzy - October 12, 2013 at 2:46 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by freedomfromforum - October 12, 2013 at 3:04 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Thumpalumpacus - December 9, 2014 at 1:01 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by LadyForCamus - July 2, 2019 at 9:09 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - July 3, 2019 at 3:28 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by arewethereyet - August 15, 2019 at 5:34 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Belacqua - August 15, 2019 at 9:03 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by onlinebiker - August 15, 2019 at 7:00 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - August 15, 2019 at 7:09 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 15, 2019 at 7:26 pm
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