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

this is my favourite, enjoy:

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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

I like the way this is used in Interstella, with michael caine's poetic cockney voice

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

Beautiful words like most poetry you have to feel it not just read it

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I like that.

I have loads of favourites this is one of them

They fuck you up, your mum and dad

They might not mean to but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn

By fools in old style hats and coats

Who half the time were soppy-stern

And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man

It deepens like a coastal shelf

Get out as early as you can

And don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin.

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

Think of a bee,

You are it's knees,

You waft through me like a summers breeze,

Can I come over Thursday please?

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

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If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

A favorite of mine, its written around the top of my sons room

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

All good choices here is one of mine by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

This bitter morning cold and grey

Will turn to be the worlds last day

We knew that this would happen soon

When man set out to touch the moon

But not content with fools gold

Neglect our earth and leave it cold

The cobra strikes no more

Yet death is still sold door to door

Oh fool man. Oh fool

Why could you not return to school

And learn to fruitful our land

And leave the worlds beyond to hand

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