Topic: An Opportunity To Share
plastic_pancakes
Joined Sun 10/18/09 Posts: 5764 |
Three poems that you should all read.
If you read these three poems, please feel free (and I hope you do) to post three you would like others to read. Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen Mein Kampf - David Lerner Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year - Raymond Carver I hope some folks here check them out. Anyone that reads them doesn't need to comment on how they felt about any of them. All I want is for people to read these and post three of their own, for whatever reason, and I promise to read them. So, cheers to those who do. |
WolfEyez
Joined Sun 05/03/09 Posts: 1726 |
The Tiger by William Blake
A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe O captain! My captain! by Walt Whitman |
rarerose
Joined Sun 02/18/07 Posts: 549 |
I Carry Your Heart With Me by ee cummings
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Romance by Edgar Allan Poe |
Sharris
Joined Sun 12/10/06 Posts: 6714 |
"The Snakes of September" by Stanley Kunitz
"The Round"..Kunitz "The Simple Dark" by Luci Shaw |
kc0003
Joined Fri 05/11/07 Posts: 20707 |
if you forget me...pablo neruda
alone...edgar allen poe the cry of the children...elizabeth barrett browning |
pkd1220
Joined Thu 05/24/07 Posts: 8097 |
Anne Sexton - Wanting to Die Kenneth Koch - Sleeping With Women Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazurus |
iam4u
Joined Fri 10/13/06 Posts: 29755 |
 
Does it count to just say, I hate reading a book,,,so I never have.  Sometimes, its really hard to believe that I am human,lol,lol
fifty two and never read any book,,,THATS just sadly, BAD! Little secrets just fly out around here,wink.. Sorry,,,I just wished I had, so as I could share them with all of you. THIS was a GREAT POST, man....  
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pkd1220
Joined Thu 05/24/07 Posts: 8097 |
QUOTE:
Does it count to just say, I hate reading a book,,,so I never have. Sometimes, its really hard to believe that I am human,lol,lol
fifty two and never read any book,,,THATS just sadly, BAD! Little secrets just fly out around here,wink.. Sorry,,,I just wished I had, so as I could share them with all of you. THIS was a GREAT POST, man....
Tery- You don't have to read a book. The majority of them are only poems. I know you can do that. A pretty varied collection too. Many were new to me-thanks to all for posting. |
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plastic_pancakes
Joined Sun 10/18/09 Posts: 5764 |
Yes, thanks to everyone for posting.
Most of these I haven't read and I've had a lot of fun getting to read new poetry and get a small glance vicariously into the minds of poets on the site. I was wondering who would post Alone by Poe. One of my favorites. I hope people keep adding. |
HuckleberryFinn
Joined Wed 09/23/09 Posts: 753 |
wow, and I must be "alone" to think that is one of his worst works...The Raven to me is the greatest love poem ever written, few even recognize it as a love poem, but if you read it and understand his mindset, it's easy to see that the love he had was so tragic he refused to love again, thus nevermore......
Dreams In The Dusk by: Carl Sandburg To A Stranger by: Walt Whitman |
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pkd1220
Joined Thu 05/24/07 Posts: 8097 |
QUOTE: wow, and I must be "alone" to think that is one of his worst works...The Raven to me is the greatest love poem ever written, few even recognize it as a love poem, but if you read it and understand his mindset, it's easy to see that the love he had was so tragic he refused to love again, thus nevermore...... Dreams In The Dusk by: Carl Sandburg To A Stranger by: Walt Whitman I love The Raven myself. We actually studied it in grade school. |
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pkd1220
Joined Thu 05/24/07 Posts: 8097 |
W.S.Mervin The Child
Gregory Corso Marriage Jon Silkin Death of a Son |