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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

Do you have a favourite poet or poem? Or one that you return to every now and then?

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By *lirty_dirtyCouple
over a year ago

Lingfield

William Blake

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"William Blake "

Easy Tyger!

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By *affron40Woman
over a year ago

manchester

I love John Donne. Particularly Sonnet x. Weirdly I came across the book today whilst organising and read it again

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

Voltaire

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"I love John Donne. Particularly Sonnet x. Weirdly I came across the book today whilst organising and read it again

Hi you! That’s a coincidence.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Lesson - by Roger McGough

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By *ddie1966Man
over a year ago

Paper Town Central, Essex.

I quite like D H Lawrence.

A piece of prose that is empowering to me is "Self Pity"

It was used in the film G I Jane.

However, if its poetry you're after, then it has to be Pam Ayres.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

My favourite poem is called the sla**s dream

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

Vergissmeinicht by Keith Douglas is an old favourite of mine, must get back into reading the war poets...

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Shel Silverstein should be Fabs poet laureate

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

I like The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton. Great little collection plus his own artwork.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Scaffolding Seamus Heaney is one of my favourites

I like a lot of Wendy Cope's stuff too.

If they qualify as poetry some of the Psalms are pretty good too

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By *lexm87Man
over a year ago

Various

"Scaffolding Seamus Heaney is one of my favourites

I like a lot of Wendy Cope's stuff too.

If they qualify as poetry some of the Psalms are pretty good too"

Until I read Heaney slowly, it never made any great impact. It's the opposite of Ginsberg, but both all about voice.

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

I’ve been reading Wild Geese by Mary Oliver a lot this week.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything by Caleb Femi. His book, Poor is a collection of the most beautiful, relatable poems I’ve ever read. I return often to his Thirteen and Schrödinger’s Black.

I recently read modern times by Cathy Sweeney which was alright too. Some decent ones in there.

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By *esafinadOHolyNightMan
over a year ago

Belfast

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73.

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou see’st the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west;

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest …

1 of the great Bards' poems about growing old that I love

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

In thd English language it is

Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night. Know it's a typical choice but listening to him recite it makes me well up each and every time.

In Welsh it's Hon - T. H. Parry-Williams. Which encapsulates the feeling of loosing Wales and her culture.

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By *rsMistyPeaksWoman
over a year ago

Essex

I’m feeling a bit Sylvia Plath this morning, which isn’t a great sign. I think I shall have another cuppa.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Hope you're less Plath soon Misty, x

I'm going for something modern. Well someone. Sierra DeMulder.

It's the combination of raw sexuality and visceral love. The poignancy. Love her poems.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

I love Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Purely because it's absolute nonsense that never fails to make me smile.

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By *inda May SimmonsTV/TS
over a year ago

hexham

Tennyson for nice contemplative reading. I love Ulysses and The Lotus Eaters

For a quick read and with clever little life lessons then A E Housman is great stuff…

“ I to my perils of cheat and charmer

Came clad in armour by stars benign,

Hope lies to mortals and most believe her,

But man’s deceiver was never mine.

The thoughts of others were light and fleeting,

Of lovers meeting, or luck, or fame.

Mine were of trouble and mine were steady

So I was ready when trouble came!

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

"I’m feeling a bit Sylvia Plath this morning, which isn’t a great sign. I think I shall have another cuppa."

Hugs xx

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By *rsMistyPeaksWoman
over a year ago

Essex

I’m out of Plath and moving to Jacob Sam La Rose. More purposeful..

it’s all good

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By *illy IdolMan
over a year ago

Midlands

Since a child Jack Prelutsky, "I'm in a Rotten Mood" has stuck with me. I've even uploaded today for the video challenge for you

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By *icolasHidalgoDeCorazonMan
over a year ago

St Leonards

"William Blake "

Blake - for the overall "poem" that the visions, mythology, politics, engravings, and words all brought together.

No one like it in English history.

He couldn't have done it without Catherine, and the Blake Society are now making sure she gets significantly better recognition.

Just poems - magickal words on paper - Donne.

But Blake is beyond poetry, and we really haven't caught up with him yet.

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