|
|
Rank: Active Ink Slinger
Joined: 11/5/2008
Posts: 20
|
It says a lot boys and girls, has anyone a fav and why?
|
|
Rank: Administration
Joined: 9/20/2007
Posts: 3,273
|
Pablo Neruda.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 10/22/2008
Posts: 110
Location: Dallas TX
|
it doesn't have to be spoken word, right? Many musicians are incredibly talented lyricists, which I would argue counts as poetry:
Bright Eyes
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows
Thom Yorke of Radiohead
to name a few that stand out in my head...
Lia
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 2/9/2008
Posts: 1,602
Location: Michigan
|
I cannot choose one favorite poet because my tastes are so diverse. But here are a few whose poems I have enjoyed: Sara Teasdale Elizabeth Bishop Robert Frost Langston Hughes and more recently...Pablo Neruda 
~~Tech
|
|
Rank: Administration
Joined: 4/13/2008
Posts: 2,533
Location: Illinois
|
Neruda rocks!!! I also like Rafael Guillen and Octavio Paz, Emerson, Naomi Shihab Nye and Whitman......I could go on and on.......too many to mention...... 
~z~"Where words fail, music speaks..."
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 1/9/2008
Posts: 1,039
Location: Minnesota
|
Honestly ... ?
The shithouse poet.
To me, it's funny, honest, real.
They make us smile, but never let others know we did.
And some of the best I've seen, are at bike rallies. Miami, Laconia, Stugis and even local rallies.
But then, what do I know !
Bat
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 8/18/2008
Posts: 667
Location: Indiana
|
Jewel
|
|
Rank: Advanced Wordsmith
Joined: 10/29/2008
Posts: 67
Location: Poland
|
Charles Baudelaire - just knocks me down
and also a Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska - light and unforced but straight to the point - hmm, just like good parfum should be :)
|
|
Rank: Administration
Joined: 10/17/2007
Posts: 3,272
Location: Texas
|
Bat you crack me up.
Here I sit all broken hearted
Tried to shit and only farted.
I like Tennyson. My husband reads him to me often and it's perfect.
|
|
Rank: Active Ink Slinger
Joined: 11/5/2008
Posts: 20
|
I LOVE Emily Dickinson, I know a lot of her stuff is raw, but is the rawness that intrigues me because it is real, one of my favourites is I felt a funeral in my brain, does anyone else like her?
I FELT a funeral in my brain,
And mourners, to and fro,
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
That sense was breaking through.
And when they all were seated,
A service like a drum
Kept beating, beating, till I thought
My mind was going numb.
And then I heard them lift a box,
And creak across my soul
With those same boots of lead, again.
Then space began to toll
As all the heavens were a bell,
And Being but an ear,
And I and silence some strange race,
Wrecked, solitary, here.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 5/30/2008
Posts: 555
Location: Florida
|
I am a fan of Emily Dickinson as well, " because i could not stop for death" is one of my favorites of hers.
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 5/20/2008
Posts: 100
Location: New England
|
For obvious reasons I prefer longfellows
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 1/9/2008
Posts: 1,039
Location: Minnesota
|
I don't know it,
but my feet show it.
Because they're longfellows.
Bat
|
|
Rank: Rookie Scribe
Joined: 2/17/2007
Posts: 9
Location: Stoneham, MA
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay. She hypnotically illustrates the sometimes-exquisite battle between fantasy and reality. Liberation and captivity.
|
|
Rank: Active Ink Slinger
Joined: 10/28/2008
Posts: 11
|
Yes Emily Dickenson is wonderful and some of the poems are so short yet they say so much . She never saw the sea.
|
|
Rank: Administration
Joined: 9/20/2007
Posts: 3,273
|
Give us a longfellows poem, unless it's too dirty.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 1/9/2008
Posts: 1,039
Location: Minnesota
|
OK, I'l go wash my 15D feet and give it to ya.
Bat
|
|
Rank: Administration
Joined: 9/20/2007
Posts: 3,273
|
 I meant from Pam, Bat.
|
|
Rank: Forum Guru
Joined: 5/20/2008
Posts: 100
Location: New England
|
The arrow Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight
|
|
Rank: Lurker
Joined: 12/1/2006
Posts: -26
|
Ogden Nash and Shel Silverstein
Enigma Man!!!
|
|
Rank: Active Ink Slinger
Joined: 12/18/2008
Posts: 21
Location: Chicago Area
|
Robert Frost....Walking through the woods on a snowy evening.....
|
|
|
Guest |
