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Apr 11, '12, 12:59 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
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The Homer Simpson version was better!
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Never saw that, but it sounds funny
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May 15, '12, 2:35 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
I think everyone should give poetry ago?
so i've set up a poem forum to give everyone a chance to express themselves.
take a look, then join, then write a poem, post it, and enjoy!
A POEM FORUM
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May 15, '12, 3:04 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
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Never saw that, but it sounds funny
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Homer was the man, Bart was the raven.
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May 15, '12, 5:46 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
My favorites:
The Bells..Poe
Glory Be To God For Dappled Things...Hopkins
The Highwayman...some Irish guy would be my guess
But the last poem I read was that one that ends..and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep...that was a week ago.
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May 15, '12, 5:49 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
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I like "O Captain, My Captain" (Walt Whitman, I think). I remember reading some more poems in the past that were very good, but it's been years.
I actually used to write poetry, and I was told it was quite good. Only problem is, I would only write when I was feeling borderline suicidal. So I suppose it's a good thing that I haven't written any poetry in years.  |
Yes, let's just have you read and not write then! I also like O Captain, but generally don't care for Whitman other than that.
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May 15, '12, 9:52 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
I read T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday periodically just to stay in balance.
It's best to read it out loud.
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May 15, '12, 11:29 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
Oh I love poetry and read poems frequently. Favourite poets include Pablo Neruda, Sara Teasdale, Carol Ann Duffy, Yeats, Keats, Wilfred Owen, Shakespeare...(amongst others!)...
The last one I re-read was yesterday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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May 16, '12, 11:55 am
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
I also like this little ee cummings poem which sums up all of life:
Anyone Lived In a Pretty How Town
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did
Women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed (but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her
someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then) they
said their nevers they slept their dream
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)
one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain
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May 16, '12, 11:56 am
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
There's a lot of good poetry, just as long as you remember that T.S. Eliot was the greatest poet of the 20th century!
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May 16, '12, 7:53 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
My wife and I are getting a divorce soon. This is a link to a published poem of mine that foreshadowed everything. What do you think of it?
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/201...ally-deaf.html
I notice that most of you read predominately religious poetry, a lot of the older stuff. I have had any sort of formalism beaten out of me in art school. I still love Eliot but I need my Greek lexicon nearby to read him.
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May 16, '12, 8:04 pm
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Re: When was the Last Time you read a Poem
The last poem I read was "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins on Mother's Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EjB7rB3sWc
"And here, I wish to say to her now,
is a smaller gift—not the worn truth
that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took
the two-tone lanyard from my hand,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless, worthless thing I wove
out of boredom would be enough to make us even."
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