Favourite Poetry

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 1:24 pm

I like a lot of poetry so it's hard to choose, but here goes:

Tide

Lovers
and lesser men
have gone on and on
endlessly and persuasively

About the anguished
half-choked
sputtering cry
the circumscribed tide
makes---its hiss
and last sigh---
before it collapses
on the white sand
and dies

I note only
what happens
to the bright refractions of light

When the dashed water
lies momentarily low
slow-moving and still
on its dull supporting porous table

Irving Layton

thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 1:32 pm

@Craig: ROFL! Don't quit your day job.

@DW: I enjoyed the poem you posted. It has beautiful undercurrents.

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fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 2:57 pm

@Thantor, Craig's 13, I think. If he quit his dayjob, he'd be arrested for truancy.

jennabard · Post by **jennabard** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 4:55 pm

another poem i really love is bauderlaire's
'the travelers'

leedogg · Post by **leedogg** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 5:11 pm

Originally posted by fable:
Hey, doesn't anybody else read and enjoy poetry? Come on! Just because we stare at the various sexual parts of the opposite sex doesn't mean we can't have sensitive moments--perhaps one at the age of 15, perhaps another for five seconds at the age of 38...

Let's hear from you!

sorry fable, i loved english and hated literature, fortunatly the lit wasn't on the semester exams, or i would still be in school!

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 5:24 pm

Originally posted by fable:
Hey, doesn't anybody else read and enjoy poetry? Come on! Just because we stare at the various sexual parts of the opposite sex doesn't mean we can't have sensitive moments--perhaps one at the age of 15, perhaps another for five seconds at the age of 38...

Let's hear from you!

Seamus Heaney, anyone?

I know many poems in Japanese, whether originally written in or translated into Japanese, so I'm not much of help (I don't mind posting in Japanese, though...

).

Same apply to other readings, like Shakespear. I read most of his work in translation when I was 14-5, and have no energy to read them all in English again now...

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thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 5:28 pm

@Minerva: I love hiaku. Is there anything in this genre that you enjoy and could post in English?

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 5:57 pm

Originally posted by thantor3:
@Minerva: I love hiaku. Is there anything in this genre that you enjoy and could post in English?

Not in English, I'm afraid. I like them in Japanese, because we could loose either meaning or ryhthm Haiku has when we translate it. I love Tanka (older than Haiku. It has 7-5-7-7-7 syllables).

BTW, there are a couple of Haiku contests in this forum somewhere, if you are interested in.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 6:12 pm

Ummm Minerva, I'm not so sure those should ever see the light of day

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leedogg · Post by **leedogg** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 6:24 pm

Originally posted by Minerva:

BTW, there are a couple of Haiku contests in this forum somewhere, if you are interested in.

no need to torture anyone, now, is there?

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 7:19 pm

Quiet, @Lapdog.

I'm interested, @Minerva.

thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 9:24 pm

Well, this isn't hiaku, but it is one of my favorite poems:

Since we've seen each other, a game goes on.
Secretly I move, and you respond
You're winning, you think it's funny.

But look up from the board, look how
I've brought in furniture to this invisible place
so we can live here.

Rumi

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 1:19 am

Originally posted by T'lainya:
Ummm Minerva, I'm not so sure those should ever see the light of day

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Hehe, I think some people are keen to read them, T'.

Should I dig them up, or wait till someone finds it?

Warning
Those are not for fainthearted or children.

thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 2:23 am

Thantor, crawling back from 1st annual SYM Haiku contest:

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 4:07 am

Originally posted by thantor3:
Thantor, crawling back from 1st annual SYM Haiku contest:

I gave warning...

You can add to them, if you like.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 4:43 am

"The warriors are in silver,
The citizens in silk,
In brazen car the champion rides,
A Hero clad in grief"

I think this is

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 7:38 am

Originally posted by Minerva:
Hehe, I think some people are keen to read them, T'. Should I dig them up, or wait till someone finds it?

Warning
Those are not for fainthearted or children.

Ouch Minerva

What did I do to deserve this from you?

*hiding face so nobody sees the blush*

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 8:54 am

I hate poetry.

This is about the best I can muster:

When yer lying wounded on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up yer remains,
Roll on to your rifle and blow out yer brains,
And go orf to yer God like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

That and "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori..."

thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 9:00 am

Thantor, heavily medicated with Thorazine:

"Hey GB, how about," falls over a chair,"posting some of your previous...um... work." *collapses on the floor, appearing to pick invisible butterflies out of the air*

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 9:01 am

Originally posted by T'lainya:
Ouch Minerva What did I do to deserve this from you? *hiding face so nobody sees the blush*

I had completely forgotten you were one of the very keen poster there, until you mentioned it.