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over a year ago
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Hands down Philip Larkin for me. I love the Whitsun Weddings collection, specifically the poem The Whitsun Weddings.
I also love his poems: Afternoons, Essential Beauty, and Dockery & Son. |
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"Hands down Philip Larkin for me. I love the Whitsun Weddings collection, specifically the poem The Whitsun Weddings.
I also love his poems: Afternoons, Essential Beauty, and Dockery & Son. "
I prefer the North Ship, love Ugly Sister and Kick Up the Fire. |
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"Hands down Philip Larkin for me. I love the Whitsun Weddings collection, specifically the poem The Whitsun Weddings.
I also love his poems: Afternoons, Essential Beauty, and Dockery & Son. "
"The Trees." You know that one? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Margaret Atwood, variation on the word sleep
Tennessee Williams, the wine drinkers
Sylvia Plath, black shoe
Shel Silverstein, the giving tree
Walt Whitman, I sing the body electric
Mattisonax, golfing
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
Hillside desolate |
I'm a cheesy WB Yeats fan
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
By Mary Elizabeth Frye
It’s a funeral poem but it means a lot to me."
_a luna with her silken hair
does she know i care
will she let me see her bare
i wonder when and where    |
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"because it was grassy and wanted wear "
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I..
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"because it was grassy and wanted wear
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I..
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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very good |
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I love a lot of different poems and my favourite will depend on my mood. On the whole it's Larkin, Heaney or cummings (lady, I will touch you with my mind is one that pops into my head on a very regular basis).
Right now I'm enjoying Michael Faudet's spare and minimalist style.
Please don't be gentle with me,
she whispered,
I want you to push my knees apart
and paint my thighs
with purple kisses |
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"because it was grassy and wanted wear
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I..
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
very good "
Beautiful poem. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska might be my favourite poem ever though... hard to say |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"because it was grassy and wanted wear
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I..
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
very good
Beautiful poem."
i love poetry but in moderation |
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"The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska might be my favourite poem ever though... hard to say"
Love at First Sight is glorious!
Beautiful is such a certainty,
but uncertainty is more beautiful. |
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By *vcarolTV/TS
over a year ago
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"I like that raven one they did on the simpsons
Edgar Allan Poe"
Two by him. These are a must for everyone, and they mean a huge amount to me, so much so that one is going to be read at my funeral thinking more forward planning . Don’t worry not happing soon.
They are The Dream, and the more important one Dream within a Dream. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes
And oh my friends
It makes a lovely light
Nabbed off posters on the tube some point in the 90s... |
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"Dr John Cooper Clarke , a modern day laureate, and total genius , all of his works !
Saw JCC live 2 years ago, absolute genius "
I saw him with the Cramps , the Clash and the Police, not all on the same night sadly , but then I did get to see him three times |
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"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes
And oh my friends
It makes a lovely light
Nabbed off posters on the tube some point in the 90s..."
Edna St Vincent Millay. She was a fascinating woman. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska might be my favourite poem ever though... hard to say
Love at First Sight is glorious!
Beautiful is such a certainty,
but uncertainty is more beautiful."
Isn't she incredible? That one breaks me and gives me hope at the same time.
"Facts" by her makes me feel I know her personally |
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By *icentious OP Couple
over a year ago
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"I love a lot of different poems and my favourite will depend on my mood. On the whole it's Larkin, Heaney or cummings (lady, I will touch you with my mind is one that pops into my head on a very regular basis).
Right now I'm enjoying Michael Faudet's spare and minimalist style.
Please don't be gentle with me,
she whispered,
I want you to push my knees apart
and paint my thighs
with purple kisses"
Never read this, it is on my read list know. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes
And oh my friends
It makes a lovely light
Nabbed off posters on the tube some point in the 90s...
Edna St Vincent Millay. She was a fascinating woman."
Opens google page to investigate... |
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"Kung Fu International.
John Cooper Clarke.
Anything by William McGonagal.
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John Cooper Clarke - brilliant!
I Married A Monster From Outer Space
Listen to it (and more) here:
Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b080w7lv |
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"The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska might be my favourite poem ever though... hard to say
Love at First Sight is glorious!
Beautiful is such a certainty,
but uncertainty is more beautiful.
Isn't she incredible? That one breaks me and gives me hope at the same time.
"Facts" by her makes me feel I know her personally "
I don't know Facts, but will take your recommendation and hunt it down. |
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"Hairy Maclary & Friends
By Dame Lynley Dodd
Best poems as a kid and i still love them now at 37!
I read Hairy MacLary to my kids "
My favourites forever!! Hairy Maclary (from Donaldsons dairy) Hercules Morse (size of a horse) Bottomly Potts (covered in spots) hahaha
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"Live in the same area as Simon Armitage, kind of feel like some of his writing resonates with some of the area.
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I live in the same place that Ted Hughes grew up in - and (as you're probably aware); much of his poetry resonates with this area too. There's definitely something quite magical about The Pennines; although "Dreamers" - in which he describes Sylvia and his first (cataclysmic) meeting with Assisia Weevil, is my favourite poem. |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
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"Hairy Maclary & Friends
By Dame Lynley Dodd
Best poems as a kid and i still love them now at 37!
I read Hairy MacLary to my kids
My favourites forever!! Hairy Maclary (from Donaldsons dairy) Hercules Morse (size of a horse) Bottomly Potts (covered in spots) hahaha
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Bitzer maloney (all skinny and bony)  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
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Whoa, I just searched for this on youtube. What an intensely clever poem, as well as hilarious. Genius indeed. |
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"Dr John Cooper Clarke , a modern day laureate, and total genius , all of his works !
Saw JCC live 2 years ago, absolute genius "
Pity the plight of poor fellows
Too long abed with no sleep
Love that man to bits  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I like that raven one they did on the simpsons
Edgar Allan Poenever more aaaark"
Did you know that's why my Ravens are so called? Edgar Allen Poe was from Baltimore. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I don't have one overall favourite, but I'm an Edgar Allan Poe kinda girl. I also love "the highway man" by Alfred Notes, that one always sticks with me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
Whoa, I just searched for this on youtube. What an intensely clever poem, as well as hilarious. Genius indeed. "
Isn't it great? I'm looking forward to checking out ALL of the prose listed here too... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My top 3 are
1. R@pe of the Lock - Alexander Pope
2. Lament for the makers - William Dunbar
3. Souls Errand - Walter Raleigh.
All 3 were in a collection of poems I read as a teenager and at some point I could recite them from memory. I've read some really good ones since then, but none have struck me like those. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The most recent I fell in love with was "Some Cunt Used the "N" Word" by John Cooper Clarke. Genius.
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska might be my favourite poem ever though... hard to say"
Just listened to "Some Cunt used the" N" word" and it's now a favourite |
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Try to find the 2003 BBC radio production of "Under Milk Wood". It's a wonderful prose poem play, and this particular version is a joy to listen to. Somehow they separated the Richard Burton part from the original 1954 radio broadcast, and replaced the english actors from the early version with an all welsh cast.
"To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea." |
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""To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.""
I will always and forever hear this in Richard Burton's voice... |
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""To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
I will always and forever hear this in Richard Burton's voice..."
I know, wonderful isn't it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I like John Hegley. He's very funny. Luke "
I saw him at the comedy store, 356 years ago
He was brilliant
My fave of his is entitled 'The Suitcase'
" They fill me up with just about as much as I can take.
And they wonder why I break
And then they stick labels on me" |
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