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do you like Poetry, if so who is your favorate poet, Poem? or do you even write poetry yourself?
Personally i love the war poets and what they had to say of their experiences and most importatly the way in which they said it.
"On Hearing a Lark Singing at Dawn in the Trenches"
O, Wonder Bird, what song is this you sing?
What message to us weary, war-worn men?
Is it to memories of peace you cling?
Of sunlit strath and flower-bejewelled glen?
Would you remind us of quiet country lanes?
Of ivied homesteads nestling ‘mong the hills?
Of rose-cheeked maids meandering with their swains?
Of pebbly rivulets and whispering rills?
Or do your notes protest against the fate
That forced you, neutral, from your love-lined nest,
To share the humans' agony of hate
That found no echo in your joyous breast?
I think at times you mock great Man’s strange mind,
Which, civilised, creates an earthly Hell,
Calling it war; red murder of a kind
Undreamt by Attila before he fell.
There was a tremble in your song just now
That spoke of mate, of child-birds lost to you.
O Wonder Bird, we watchers marvel how
Your wings still flutter in that sky of blue.
Haste, herald lark, for soon your silver tune
Will die among the discord of the guns;
The heavens will shriek in agony by noon.
Hide, Wonder bird;
John B Nicholson France, May 1915 |
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I never understood poetry because I feel like I can write poetry I find as interesting or more interesting than a lot of stuff, and some people claim to be poets as though it's a full time profession. I just don't get that.
But then again, I do like some poems.
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
More than a little sinister. |
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but thats why i like poetry, it can summon up any kind of mood from longing and saddness, through to love, happines, and then finishing of with fear, panic, hatred etc etc... Just look at Edgar allan poe!!! Edited by moderator 15 July 2009 21:54:35(UTC)
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i love poetry. in fact, i'm constantly writing. i have near 60 poems written.
my favourite poets are alfonsina storni, charles bukowski, pablo neruda, alejandra pizarnik, juana de ibarbourou, william butler yeats, federico garcía lorca, aldous huxley, jorge luis borges, julio cortázar (thought i like better his novels and short stories)... among others.
my favourite poems are in spanish, so it would be pointless posting them here. |
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what kind of poems have you written and would you mind sharing some with us? |
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if you understand spanish, i maybe wouldn't mind. :) |
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sav wrote:if you understand spanish, i maybe wouldn't mind. :) Hablo (y leo) espanol! Qiuero leer las poemas! Por favor? :D Edited by user 19 July 2009 18:40:59(UTC)
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GirlSpice wrote:Oh well.. she sits outside then. LOL! |
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Me gusta cerveza, pero no tengo cerveza. ¡Que lastima!
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troymazing wrote:sav wrote:if you understand spanish, i maybe wouldn't mind. :) Hablo (y leo) espanol! Qiuero leer las poemas! Por favor? :D http://werenotscaremongering.blogspot.comthere are some of them (thought i post things there occasionally and have lots and lots of poems without posting). i hope you like them. :) please note that most of them are in argentinian spanish, then some verbs and pronouns may change. Edited by user 22 July 2009 10:27:28(UTC)
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I read 'abril'. It's good! I don't understand some of it, but the stuff I do understand is good :) |
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troymazing wrote:I read 'abril'. It's good! I don't understand some of it, but the stuff I do understand is good :) thank you! it's good to have fans in the other side of the world. haha i actually wrote it because i'm willing to name one of my daughters Abril. :) |
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sav wrote:
thank you! it's good to have fans in the other side of the world. haha
i actually wrote it because i'm willing to name one of my daughters Abril. :)
Lol. Oh. I was wondering why it was about dreams and named abril. :) |
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