What's your favourite poem? (difference, quote)

[VexedAndSolitary]

A brilliant ultraminimalist poem:

You fit into me
Like a hook into an eye

A fish hook
An open eye

-Atwood

[kevxu]

I am Raftery, the poet
full of hope and love
with eyes without light
silence without torment.

Going back on my journey
by the light of my heart
weak and tired
until the end of my way.

Look at me now,
my back to the wall
playing music
for empty pockets.

Seán O´Ceallaigh (Trans. from Irish. The poet Raftery was blind, which give extra significance to the references to light or the lack of it. The poem used to be attributed to Raftery himself, but was found to have been written O´Ceallaigh in the U.S.)

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by OverItAll

A brilliant ultraminimalist poem:

You fit into me
Like a hook into an eye

A fish hook
An open eye

-Atwood

This reminds me of our C-D member Fisheye--who got a fish hook stuck in his eye. Ouch.

[ClaraC]

Broccoli
While not exoccoli
is within an inach
of being spinach


Canaries
when they're moulting
are quite revolting

Ogden Nash

[MegaJoy]

"Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.[1]

[MegaJoy]

One of My Favorite song2 is...........
John Lennon Lyrics
"Imagine"

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world... You...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

[Mahayana]

The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn't been peppered.
Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say Ouch.
Better yet, if called by a panther, Don't anther.

Ogden Nash

[David A Stone]

A poem by Edgar Allen Poe that quotes a raven saying............" nevermore "

[Nov3]

Auguries of Innocence by Wm. Blake.

Also the works of Kahlil Gibran.

[Mahayana]

Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman’s boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.

Tennyson