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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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there's been one or two literary threads (literally) so I thought I would ask if anyone had a favourite poem, or poems?
I have a few, all of which I discovered whilst studying one of my modules...
1 Jerusalem by William Blake
2 Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
both very stirring in their own way and I often wish I could write poetry, but as I have no talent for it, I am happy to admire those that do....
over to you lot |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Too many to choose from to be honest. Pablo Neruda is one of my favourites.
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
to name a few favourites |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"there's been one or two literary threads (literally) so I thought I would ask if anyone had a favourite poem, or poems?
I have a few, all of which I discovered whilst studying one of my modules...
1 Jerusalem by William Blake
2 Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
both very stirring in their own way and I often wish I could write poetry, but as I have no talent for it, I am happy to admire those that do....
over to you lot "
I'm a poet so thousands of poems swim around my mind.
Brendan Kennelly's 'Begin' is on my tongue right now. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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I always head for The Second Coming by WB Yeats as my instant go to 'favourite' poem but there are others I love. Some Sylvia Plath despite the miserableness, the galloping metre of Tennyson, the imagery of Milton. Anyone who builds words, really. Being on here has led to me discovering Michael Faudet as well. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anything by Shane Koyczan a spoken word poet.
I LOVE his work.
Like this. He is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHczVzGfyqQ"
I saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
I cried at just the sheer passion the man has for his work. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"There once was a lady called Jeg.
Her wetness ran down to her leg.
On bended knee the prince did say.
"Oh how far to lick, if I may?" "
wow I didn't realise this thread would make such a great filter  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anything by Shane Koyczan a spoken word poet.
I LOVE his work.
Like this. He is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHczVzGfyqQ
I saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
I cried at just the sheer passion the man has for his work."
He is very talented. I'm jealous you got to see him.
If you don't know him check out Anis Mojgani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znIXyFh6dsI |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?"
That's so sexy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?
That's so sexy. "
although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?
That's so sexy.
although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem..."
I've done that  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?
That's so sexy.
although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem...
I've done that "
we need to talk.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Like Hatter, I'm a big fan of Neruda but my favourite poem of all time has to be Rupert Brooke's "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" which is a paean to homesickness  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?
That's so sexy.
although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem...
I've done that
we need to talk.
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Was introduced to Wendy Cope by a friend. War poets at school but I have a battered copy of In through the head by William McIlvanney which I have recently picked up again. ..Some of his though a bit dark. ..love Benjamin Zephaniah...once did lights for Simon Armitage
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?"
Well done certainly it is! Specially sharing your work with others! I bet you are extremely proud! X |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"John Cooper Clarke: (I Married A) Monster, brilliant
The album he's just recorded with Hugh Cornwell is ace."
What? I thought he'd died the Rock n Roll death: Booze n Drugs!
Ashamed to admit it but I wrote several poems based on his style of delivery when I was younger  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Dylan Thomas and mot just because he is Welsh .
I love the way he plays with words , creating new simile's and metaphors' .
Even in Under Milkwood he uses poetry to imply pace and movement |
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I can never remember poetry and certainly cannot compose poetry...
But to like a bit of Rilke (very sensitive gent!)....Sylvia Plath wrote some beautiful stuff.....but always love the words (is he a poet? I'd say so) of Kahlil Gibran x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Figs by D H Lawerence ......
The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, nd open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
Then you throw away the skin
Which is just like a four-sepalled calyx,
After you have taken off the blossom, with your lips.
But the vulgar way
Is just to put your mouth to the crack, and take out the flesh in one bite.
Every fruit has its secret.
Mwah
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By *anklerMan
over a year ago
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"Too many to choose from to be honest. Pablo Neruda is one of my favourites.
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
to name a few favourites"
and I was expecting you to say the Jabberwocky |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know nothing about poetry. I find some of it to be jumped up nonsense.
But I do like Hatter's poetry. And I'm not just saying that, he really is good "
It really isn't jumped up nonsense.
I can assure you. |
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"Too many to choose from to be honest. Pablo Neruda is one of my favourites.
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
to name a few favourites
and I was expecting you to say the Jabberwocky"
Neruda wrote some beautiful stuff..
Saphho and Rumi could say so much, in so few words |
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By *smCouple
over a year ago
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There are two that I love and find emotional as they were requested to be read funerals.
For my dad .
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
And the one I wrote to my husband as a joke when dating and he left instructions to me to read at his funeral.
My lover don't buy me flowers . It's famous in my family lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Stevie Smith. She did her own drawings too. Not waving but drowning.
John Donne. Batter my Heart. The Sunne Rising (to be recited when waking up next to someone you still fancy in the morning)
Andrew Marvell. To his Coy Mistresse. (when trying to get someone into bed) |
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