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Rose
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Pure Essence
Joined: Mar 17, 2004
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Location: Canada Ontario
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I have a massive list of favorite poems and I couldn't choose one.
Don't Quit (Unknown Author)
Nothing Gold can Stay by Robert Frost
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep ( Believe to have been written by Mary Frye)
Should You Go First By A.K. Rowswell
The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
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Misspink
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Miss talk a lot
Joined: Sep 29, 2007
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Location: In a house
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Lark
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Writer of the Year
Joined: Nov 01, 2006
Posts: 221
Location: U.K.
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Bob Dylan is a great poet, (not such a good singer!) though I love his lyrics and music, any other Dylan fans out there?
lots worthy of a mention;
Let me die in my footsteps
Chimes of Freedom
Not Dark Yet
For humerous poetry how about Spike Milligan
The Elephant
the only animal
if you please,
that can bend forward
on all four knees,
whoever made him
did not know
the disproportion
it would show.
Poor elephant at
his shape must rail,
a nose that's longer
than his tail.
Or The Nothing Poem. |
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TheRadiantSeraphim
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Joined: Sep 04, 2007
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There are many poems that I like, but to name a several classical ones... I like many of Emerson's poetry on Transcendentalism, and I also like the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Then I like the several independent poets that exist out there. The only kind of poetry that I do not like (I got too many favorites to name) are poems filled with out-right hatred, or are completely snippy-spiteful-all-about-being-bitter-immature natured. I am not saying anyone here has gotten to that extreme, and I by all means have never seen such here, but I have seen such poetry before.
I also like a little bit of Lenoard Cohen.
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Lark
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Writer of the Year
Joined: Nov 01, 2006
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Location: U.K.
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| Hey! Good to meet another Leonard Cohen fan, Bird on a Wire, Suzanne to name but two. |
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stargazer
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Shining Star
Joined: Sep 28, 2007
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Location: Pennsylvania
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One of the most beautiful poems was written by an unknown Indian author in the classical Sanskrit language. The original title is, like the author, unknown. As follows:
Although I conquer all the earth,
Yet for me there is only one city.
In that city there is for me only one house;
And in that house, one room only;
And in that room, a bed.
And one woman sleeps there,
The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.
Is that not beautiful?!
Also:
The Rose of My Desire by Charles G.D. Roberts
When You Are Old by Yeats
Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
The Passing of the Wise Men by Pattieann Rogers
Earth Voices by Bliss Carmen
Add to the list anything by Mary Oliver, Sarah Teasdale and Rumi.
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TheRadiantSeraphim
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| stargazer wrote: |
One of the most beautiful poems was written by an unknown Indian author in the classical Sanskrit language. The original title is, like the author, unknown. As follows:
Although I conquer all the earth,
Yet for me there is only one city.
In that city there is for me only one house;
And in that house, one room only;
And in that room, a bed.
And one woman sleeps there,
The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.
Is that not beautiful?!
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Hmmm, isn't that stanza from the Ramayana Epic? I could be wrong, though...
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stargazer
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Shining Star
Joined: Sep 28, 2007
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No clue, Seraphim. I've seen this many times, always as 'unknown Sanskrit poem'. I have no idea what the Ramayana Epic is---it may very well be a stanza. At any rate, I think its one of the most beautiful poems/stanzas ever written. Anyone know from where this poem comes? 
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Robert Frost
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Natures first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold . . . |
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Rhymemeister
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Poetically Correct
Joined: May 24, 2005
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Location: Midwest U.S.A.
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My favorite poem is "Leonanie" by James Whitcomb Riley
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Storyteller
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Super Newbie
Joined: Dec 15, 2005
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Location: Alberta Canada
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| My fave poem is The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. e |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Edna St Vincent Millay also wrote some awesome pieces of literature! |
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