poetry - Page 2

sun-star · 03-26-2002, 02:44 PM

Quote:

POETRY IS BEAUTY CONCENTRATED.

I agree - that's absolutely true. I love reading and learning poetry. My favourite poets are probably John Keats, Ted Hughes, Rupert Brooke, and lots more which I can't think of now.

Starr Polish · 03-26-2002, 09:56 PM

Omigosh, I cannot believe it!

I just found out that one of my poems (called "Stardust") is going to be published in a book called "The Best Poems and Poets of 2002"...Hoooah!

Finally published, in a BOOK! I've been published in the newspaper once, but it was a local newspaper, not a big deal.

I'm in shock. I'm eligible for a 2000 dollar first prize!

galadriel88 · 03-28-2002, 10:51 PM

CONGRATULATIONS STARR!

Please post it here, I want to read it!

Arathorn · 03-28-2002, 11:39 PM

Please do; and Congratulations too!

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-29-2002, 03:28 AM

Congratulations, Starr!

I like poetry, but I'm not a really big poetry person. . .I write, mostly for my creative writing class, but sometimes I am inspired to write something on my own.

Again, Starr Polish, congratulations! I too would like to read it. . .

Jadera · 04-04-2002, 12:24 AM

Congrats, Starr Polish! That must be really exciting for ya!

I'm a big fan of poetry, and have been since the fifth grade. I have an Honorary Uncle who inspires me to keep at it, even when I just can't get the words out.

Reading poetry is great too. I like Dickens, some Poe, Emerson, Walter de la Mare, Bliss Carmen..etc, etc....

Also, Alethes, does your lit book happen to be Of Places? Because a lot of those poems are awfully familiar.....

(And We Are Seven is the name of it, it's a sweet poem.)

***Khamûl*** · 04-04-2002, 11:46 PM

I think poetry is pretty cool. I'm not what you would call a huge fan, but I like a good poem. I like "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.

Quote:

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Another of my favorites is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I also like the poem in Alice in Wonderland (or is it the other Alice book? I don't remember.

) about the Walrus and the Carpenter.

Quote:

`The time has come,' the Walrus said,
`To talk of may things:
Of shoes— and ships— and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages— and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.'

Poe is great, and I like some Dickinson. "Faith is a Fine Invention" is a good one.

I'll look into some more poetry, and if I find any more that I like, I'll let you know.

galadriel · 04-05-2002, 03:58 PM

I really like the poetry of Lewis Carroll. It's so hilarious and ridiculous, and it's really fun to read aloud. After reading "Through the Looking Glass" too many times, I have actually memorized Jabberwocky. Which is pretty disturbing.

FYI, Walrus and the Carpenter is in Through the Looking Glass.

**crickhollow** · 04-15-2002, 02:42 AM

Wanna know something really scary? Now that I've memorized the Jabberwocky, I like to write it out in mirror script so that you have to hold it up to a mirror to read it.

Other than wacky Lewis Carroll stuff (yeah, i've memorized the Walrus and the Carpenter, too. It's scary--the stuff that takes up valuable space in my brain), I like a lot of individual poems, and then I gradually expand other works by the same author.

An Author to Her Book, (abigail adams, i think?)
In Flander's Fields, John McCrae
The Lady of Shalott, Tennyson (haha, just look at my current sig and avatar. I AM ELAINE THE FAIR!!!)
The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes

those are just to name a few. I love anything that will play with my emotions. Make me cry, or send a shiver down my spine, make me laugh, or feel like dancing.

Does A.A. Milne count?

sun-star · 04-15-2002, 01:45 PM

AA Milne is great! Those were the first poems I ever memorised.

(crickhollow, I love your avatar! I have that picture on my wall

)

**crickhollow** · 04-15-2002, 05:12 PM

there are lots and lots of people who are always asking things,
like dates and pounds and ounces, and the names of funny kings,
and the answer's either sixpence or a hundred inches long,
and i know they'll think me silly if i get the answer wrong.

so pooh and i go whispering, and pooh looks very bright,
and says, 'well i say sixpence, but i don't suppose i'm right.'
but then it doesn't matter what the answer ought to be,
cos if he's right, i'm right, and if he's wrong, it isn't me.

A.A. Milne

ps. yeah, John Waterhouse is the greatest.

elf_princess · 04-15-2002, 10:17 PM

I love poetry. I used to write poems all the time but I haven't for a long time. My all time favorite poet... lol... Shel Silverstein. I love his poetry... it cracks me up. I know it's for little kids but I still read them all the time. I have all 3 of his main poetry books. Some of my other favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, Poe, umm... Robert Frost... and others. I like the poem by Emily Dickinson that starts off "I'm nobody, who are you? Are you a nobody too?" or somethin like that. I'm still going to have stick with Shel Silverstein. Favorite poem "They've put a brassiere on the camel."

***Khamûl*** · 04-15-2002, 11:00 PM

Frost has some of my favorite thoughts and comments on things. "Home is the place that when you have to go there, they have to take you in" - The Death of the Hired Man. "Good fences make good neighbors" - Mending Wall. I never realized that last one was Frost until Lit. class a couple of days ago. I guess that you learn something every day.

Did Silverstein write "I Don't Feel Like Going To School Today" or something like that? The one where the girl had purple spots and chocolate dots and whatever. It was either him or Jack Prelutzky, but I think it was Silverstein. A girl around here dressed up like a little girl and recited that poem in the talent part of Junior Miss and won. I thought that was cool.

elf_princess · 04-16-2002, 06:15 PM

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Originally posted by Khamûl
Did Silverstein write "I Don't Feel Like Going To School Today" or something like that? The one where the girl had purple spots and chocolate dots and whatever. It was either him or Jack Prelutzky, but I think it was Silverstein. A girl around here dressed up like a little girl and recited that poem in the talent part of Junior Miss and won. I thought that was cool.

Indeed that was him. Another great poem... sounds like it would be an interesting talent contest.....

***Khamûl*** · 04-16-2002, 11:29 PM

Very interesting indeed. I think one reason she won was for originality. It was also quite entertaining.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 04-18-2002, 01:28 AM

Anyone read any Sylvia Plath? Disturbing stuff, but good

elf_princess · 04-22-2002, 08:17 PM

I shall now share with you a wonderful excellent and very intellectual poem by none other than Shel Silverstein himself...

*How not to have to dry the Dishes*
If you have to dry the dishes
(such an awful, boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
Any you drop one on the floor--
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore!

Not my favorite but a good one none the less...

Imladris · 04-27-2002, 04:38 PM

I likew the poetry of the late Spike Milligan for some reason.
I don't like writing poetry but when I'm forced to, for homework etc it sounds good but not that good, I'll stick to reading it.

Varda · 04-27-2002, 09:37 PM

goodness! this thread remains after so many months. i rarely frequent this board anymore. i'm fairly quiet, and have been busy but am taking a break so have som free time. well here is some poetry... no guts to share my own... hope you like this though.... if anyone brave wants to share their own poems (of any type or length), i'm sure we'd all be glad... some poetry is hard to share. i tend not to like my own...

The mountain of your imagination
amounts to no more than a few crumbs of bread.
All your coming and going
was no more than an excuse.
For a lifetime
you listened to the story of my heart,
but to you it was just a fairy tale.
--Rumi, In the Arms of the Beloved, p. 93

More from Rumi:

Blood from the heart of lovers
will run as deep as a mighty river.
The lovers will be liek bubbles in that torrent of blood.
Your bod is a mill wheel and love is the water.
Have you ever seen a mill wheel turn without water?

Eldanuumea · 05-27-2002, 10:59 PM

I'd like to share one my own poems:
Untitled
Written in response to a challenge to create a poem after the style of Viggo Mortensen

The trees shiver as I watch you walking in your red sweater with the button missing from our encounter on the beach. You reach to pull a branch down, picking off new buds before they can ripen. Watching you smile as the tiny buds crumble between your freshly-tinted nails, I think of how you opened up to me, flower-like and salted with white sand. You let go and the branch snaps, sending newborn petals like rain onto the green grass at your feet. I shiver and call your name. You pretend you didn't know I was there all the time.

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03-26-2002, 09:56 PM	#22
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Omigosh, I cannot believe it! I just found out that one of my poems (called "Stardust") is going to be published in a book called "The Best Poems and Poets of 2002"...Hoooah! Finally published, in a BOOK! I've been published in the newspaper once, but it was a local newspaper, not a big deal. I'm in shock. I'm eligible for a 2000 dollar first prize! __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-28-2002, 10:51 PM	#23
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	CONGRATULATIONS STARR! Please post it here, I want to read it! __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come." Last edited by galadriel88 : 03-28-2002 at 10:53 PM.

03-28-2002, 11:39 PM	#24
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	Please do; and Congratulations too! __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

03-29-2002, 03:28 AM	#25
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Congratulations, Starr! I like poetry, but I'm not a really big poetry person. . .I write, mostly for my creative writing class, but sometimes I am inspired to write something on my own. Again, Starr Polish, congratulations! I too would like to read it. . . __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

04-04-2002, 12:24 AM	#26
Jadera Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Somewhere out there Posts: 205	Congrats, Starr Polish! That must be really exciting for ya! I'm a big fan of poetry, and have been since the fifth grade. I have an Honorary Uncle who inspires me to keep at it, even when I just can't get the words out. Reading poetry is great too. I like Dickens, some Poe, Emerson, Walter de la Mare, Bliss Carmen..etc, etc.... Also, Alethes, does your lit book happen to be Of Places? Because a lot of those poems are awfully familiar..... (And We Are Seven is the name of it, it's a sweet poem.) __________________ Whaaaaaaaaaat?? ~Chivalry isn't dead, it just transferred to women~

04-05-2002, 03:58 PM	#28
galadriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: a castle made of clouds Posts: 459	I really like the poetry of Lewis Carroll. It's so hilarious and ridiculous, and it's really fun to read aloud. After reading "Through the Looking Glass" too many times, I have actually memorized Jabberwocky. Which is pretty disturbing. FYI, Walrus and the Carpenter is in Through the Looking Glass. __________________ Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel

04-15-2002, 02:42 AM	#29
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Wanna know something really scary? Now that I've memorized the Jabberwocky, I like to write it out in mirror script so that you have to hold it up to a mirror to read it. Other than wacky Lewis Carroll stuff (yeah, i've memorized the Walrus and the Carpenter, too. It's scary--the stuff that takes up valuable space in my brain), I like a lot of individual poems, and then I gradually expand other works by the same author. An Author to Her Book, (abigail adams, i think?) In Flander's Fields, John McCrae The Lady of Shalott, Tennyson (haha, just look at my current sig and avatar. I AM ELAINE THE FAIR!!!) The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes those are just to name a few. I love anything that will play with my emotions. Make me cry, or send a shiver down my spine, make me laugh, or feel like dancing. Does A.A. Milne count? __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

04-15-2002, 01:45 PM	#30
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	AA Milne is great! Those were the first poems I ever memorised. (crickhollow, I love your avatar! I have that picture on my wall ) __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

04-15-2002, 05:12 PM	#31
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	there are lots and lots of people who are always asking things, like dates and pounds and ounces, and the names of funny kings, and the answer's either sixpence or a hundred inches long, and i know they'll think me silly if i get the answer wrong. so pooh and i go whispering, and pooh looks very bright, and says, 'well i say sixpence, but i don't suppose i'm right.' but then it doesn't matter what the answer ought to be, cos if he's right, i'm right, and if he's wrong, it isn't me. A.A. Milne ps. yeah, John Waterhouse is the greatest. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

04-15-2002, 10:17 PM	#32
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	I love poetry. I used to write poems all the time but I haven't for a long time. My all time favorite poet... lol... Shel Silverstein. I love his poetry... it cracks me up. I know it's for little kids but I still read them all the time. I have all 3 of his main poetry books. Some of my other favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, Poe, umm... Robert Frost... and others. I like the poem by Emily Dickinson that starts off "I'm nobody, who are you? Are you a nobody too?" or somethin like that. I'm still going to have stick with Shel Silverstein. Favorite poem "They've put a brassiere on the camel."

04-15-2002, 11:00 PM	#33
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Frost has some of my favorite thoughts and comments on things. "Home is the place that when you have to go there, they have to take you in" - The Death of the Hired Man. "Good fences make good neighbors" - Mending Wall. I never realized that last one was Frost until Lit. class a couple of days ago. I guess that you learn something every day. Did Silverstein write "I Don't Feel Like Going To School Today" or something like that? The one where the girl had purple spots and chocolate dots and whatever. It was either him or Jack Prelutzky, but I think it was Silverstein. A girl around here dressed up like a little girl and recited that poem in the talent part of Junior Miss and won. I thought that was cool. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

04-16-2002, 11:29 PM	#35
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Very interesting indeed. I think one reason she won was for originality. It was also quite entertaining. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

04-18-2002, 01:28 AM	#36
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Anyone read any Sylvia Plath? Disturbing stuff, but good __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

04-22-2002, 08:17 PM	#37
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	I shall now share with you a wonderful excellent and very intellectual poem by none other than Shel Silverstein himself... How not to have to dry the Dishes If you have to dry the dishes (such an awful, boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes Any you drop one on the floor-- Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore! Not my favorite but a good one none the less... __________________ ~Life's unanswered question~ ¿Which came first... the chicken or the egg? ¿How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

04-27-2002, 04:38 PM	#38
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	I likew the poetry of the late Spike Milligan for some reason. I don't like writing poetry but when I'm forced to, for homework etc it sounds good but not that good, I'll stick to reading it. __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

04-27-2002, 09:37 PM	#39
Varda Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Carmel Valley, CA Posts: 146	goodness! this thread remains after so many months. i rarely frequent this board anymore. i'm fairly quiet, and have been busy but am taking a break so have som free time. well here is some poetry... no guts to share my own... hope you like this though.... if anyone brave wants to share their own poems (of any type or length), i'm sure we'd all be glad... some poetry is hard to share. i tend not to like my own... The mountain of your imagination amounts to no more than a few crumbs of bread. All your coming and going was no more than an excuse. For a lifetime you listened to the story of my heart, but to you it was just a fairy tale. --Rumi, In the Arms of the Beloved, p. 93 More from Rumi: Blood from the heart of lovers will run as deep as a mighty river. The lovers will be liek bubbles in that torrent of blood. Your bod is a mill wheel and love is the water. Have you ever seen a mill wheel turn without water? __________________ "Life's a journey, not a destination." --Steven Tyler, Aerosmith, Arwen's daddy MySpace

05-27-2002, 10:59 PM	#40
Eldanuumea Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 123	one of my own I'd like to share one my own poems: Untitled Written in response to a challenge to create a poem after the style of Viggo Mortensen The trees shiver as I watch you walking in your red sweater with the button missing from our encounter on the beach. You reach to pull a branch down, picking off new buds before they can ripen. Watching you smile as the tiny buds crumble between your freshly-tinted nails, I think of how you opened up to me, flower-like and salted with white sand. You let go and the branch snaps, sending newborn petals like rain onto the green grass at your feet. I shiver and call your name. You pretend you didn't know I was there all the time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________ "Queen of Sweetness and Light!" - Mordomin

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