Favorite Poems

[beez7777]

In light of Shadowfax's poem, i've decided to make a favorite poem thread. you can post the entire poem, or just the name and title if it's a well known poem.

Of course, one of my favorite poems is "The Raven;" its a classic. although there are so many i enjoy, one of my favorites is "think as I think" by Stephen crane.

"Think as I think," said a man,
"Or you are abominably wicked;
You are a toad."

And after I had thought of it,
I said: "I will, then, be a toad."

[scem0]

Well, I love the poems by Catullus and Ovid, even though I learned
them in a class I despise (Latin).

I love Catullus' emotions that are shown through his poems, and
how he is not afraid to insult someone. I also love how he uses
the simplest of words in an elegant way.

I love how Horace can insult someone without using 'bad words'
like scelesta (Latin word for bitch, which Catullus uses quite often).

I think their poems are very interesting, and more fun to read
than most modern poems.

[scem0]

this thread seems to have gone dead at 1 post...

does no one have an opinion on poems/poets?

[Over Achiever]

Hmm...I liked a couple of poems by Emily Dickenson. Rober Frost, Wadsworth are another of my favorite poets. I don't have one favorite one, but i do like poetry, and I used to write some poems. :(

Unfortunately I haven't written any poems in years...well that's not entirely accurate. I wrote a short (crappy) poem for 2/14.:)

[charboneau]

beez, if you're from Merrick are you a Walt Whitman fan? Didn't they name a mall after him somewhere out there on Long Island?

[Foucault]

Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, and E.E. Cummings... the best of the best

[janey]

This poem is perfect for the mood i'm in...by emily dickinson.

My life closed twice before its close
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveils
A third event to me

So huge so hopeless to conceive
as these that twice befell
Parting is all we know of heaven
and all we need of Hell.

[beez7777]

Originally posted by charboneau
beez, if you're from Merrick are you a Walt Whitman fan? Didn't they name a mall after him somewhere out there on Long Island?

i do enjoy some of walt whitman's poems, even though i read them for school. :). yup there is a walt whitman mall about 20 minutes or so from where i live, not sure if i've ever been there though

[FatTony]

by Dixon Lanier Merritt

A wonderful bird is the Pelican,
His bill can hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But i'm damned if i see how the helican.

[dreamlance]

Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle" and this one:

Their Sex Life (by AR Ammons)
One failure
On top of another.