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

there's been one or two literary threads (literally) so I thought I would ask if anyone had a favourite poem, or poems?

I have a few, all of which I discovered whilst studying one of my modules...

1 Jerusalem by William Blake

2 Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

both very stirring in their own way and I often wish I could write poetry, but as I have no talent for it, I am happy to admire those that do....

over to you lot

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

Too many to choose from to be honest. Pablo Neruda is one of my favourites.

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

to name a few favourites

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

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Bacon

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

Rudyard Kipling If----

and this

"Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Bacon

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

"there's been one or two literary threads (literally) so I thought I would ask if anyone had a favourite poem, or poems?

I have a few, all of which I discovered whilst studying one of my modules...

1 Jerusalem by William Blake

2 Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

both very stirring in their own way and I often wish I could write poetry, but as I have no talent for it, I am happy to admire those that do....

over to you lot "

I'm a poet so thousands of poems swim around my mind.

Brendan Kennelly's 'Begin' is on my tongue right now.

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By *rotiquexxxMan
over a year ago

Unquenchable Desires

There once was a lady called Jeg.

Her wetness ran down to her leg.

On bended knee the prince did say.

"Oh how far to lick, if I may?"

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

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.................

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

I always head for The Second Coming by WB Yeats as my instant go to 'favourite' poem but there are others I love. Some Sylvia Plath despite the miserableness, the galloping metre of Tennyson, the imagery of Milton. Anyone who builds words, really. Being on here has led to me discovering Michael Faudet as well.

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

papergirl - "I love you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1YdcfBgaU

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

Mark Grist - Girls Who Read.

See me profile

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

Anything by Shane Koyczan a spoken word poet.

I LOVE his work.

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

"Mark Grist - Girls Who Read.

See me profile

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

"Mark Grist - Girls Who Read.

See me profile

I misquoted the damn title then.

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

"Anything by Shane Koyczan a spoken word poet.

I LOVE his work."

Like this. He is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHczVzGfyqQ

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

"Anything by Shane Koyczan a spoken word poet.

I LOVE his work.

Like this. He is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHczVzGfyqQ"

I saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.

I cried at just the sheer passion the man has for his work.

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

"There once was a lady called Jeg.

Her wetness ran down to her leg.

On bended knee the prince did say.

"Oh how far to lick, if I may?" "

wow I didn't realise this thread would make such a great filter

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

"Anything by Shane Koyczan a spoken word poet.

I LOVE his work.

Like this. He is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHczVzGfyqQ

I saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.

I cried at just the sheer passion the man has for his work."

He is very talented. I'm jealous you got to see him.

If you don't know him check out Anis Mojgani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znIXyFh6dsI

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

I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?

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

"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?"

That's so sexy.

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

"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?

That's so sexy. "

although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem...

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

"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?

That's so sexy.

although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem..."

I've done that

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

"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?

That's so sexy.

although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem...

I've done that

we need to talk.

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

Like Hatter, I'm a big fan of Neruda but my favourite poem of all time has to be Rupert Brooke's "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" which is a paean to homesickness

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

'The look' by Sara Teasdale

And

'So this is love?' by Lorna Crozier

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

"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?

That's so sexy.

although I'm tempted to write a dirty message as a poem...

I've done that

we need to talk.

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

Leggy lady you can write but not show your work to anyone until you feel confident?

Poetry has evolved.

The stuffy rules no longer apply.

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By *obwithkiltMan
over a year ago

Belton

Was introduced to Wendy Cope by a friend. War poets at school but I have a battered copy of In through the head by William McIlvanney which I have recently picked up again. ..Some of his though a bit dark. ..love Benjamin Zephaniah...once did lights for Simon Armitage

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

John Cooper Clarke: (I Married A) Monster, brilliant

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"John Cooper Clarke: (I Married A) Monster, brilliant

The album he's just recorded with Hugh Cornwell is ace.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Yes

The reaper and the flowers

The slaves dream both longfellow

Ballard of reading gaol

Oscar wilde

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

"I've recently been accepted to have one of my poems on a wall in my local area as part of an art exhibition. Better than a phone number and a dirty message eh?"

Well done certainly it is! Specially sharing your work with others! I bet you are extremely proud! X

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

Ted Hughes' 'The Horses'

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

"John Cooper Clarke: (I Married A) Monster, brilliant

The album he's just recorded with Hugh Cornwell is ace."

What? I thought he'd died the Rock n Roll death: Booze n Drugs!

Ashamed to admit it but I wrote several poems based on his style of delivery when I was younger

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

Dylan Thomas and mot just because he is Welsh .

I love the way he plays with words , creating new simile's and metaphors' .

Even in Under Milkwood he uses poetry to imply pace and movement

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I know nothing about poetry. I find some of it to be jumped up nonsense.

But I do like Hatter's poetry. And I'm not just saying that, he really is good

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By *eliz NelsonMan
over a year ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

I can never remember poetry and certainly cannot compose poetry...

But to like a bit of Rilke (very sensitive gent!)....Sylvia Plath wrote some beautiful stuff.....but always love the words (is he a poet? I'd say so) of Kahlil Gibran x

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

Figs by D H Lawerence ......

The proper way to eat a fig, in society,

Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, nd open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.

Then you throw away the skin

Which is just like a four-sepalled calyx,

After you have taken off the blossom, with your lips.

But the vulgar way

Is just to put your mouth to the crack, and take out the flesh in one bite.

Every fruit has its secret.

Mwah

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

"Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Bacon

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By *anklerMan
over a year ago

Suffolk

"Too many to choose from to be honest. Pablo Neruda is one of my favourites.

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

to name a few favourites"

and I was expecting you to say the Jabberwocky

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

"I know nothing about poetry. I find some of it to be jumped up nonsense.

But I do like Hatter's poetry. And I'm not just saying that, he really is good

It really isn't jumped up nonsense.

I can assure you.

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By *eliz NelsonMan
over a year ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

"Too many to choose from to be honest. Pablo Neruda is one of my favourites.

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

to name a few favourites

and I was expecting you to say the Jabberwocky"

Neruda wrote some beautiful stuff..

Saphho and Rumi could say so much, in so few words

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

The Listeners - Walter de la Mare

My nan used to read this to me when I was a child.

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

May I feel - E.E Cummings

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

"May I feel - E.E Cummings"

Yes yes yes

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By *anklerMan
over a year ago

Suffolk

I've always enjoyed Keats.

My favourite being a thing if beauty.

Lately I've started to read Algernon Charles Swinburne

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By *smCouple
over a year ago

Liskeard

There are two that I love and find emotional as they were requested to be read funerals.

For my dad .

Do not stand at my grave and weep.

And the one I wrote to my husband as a joke when dating and he left instructions to me to read at his funeral.

My lover don't buy me flowers . It's famous in my family lol

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

Stevie Smith. She did her own drawings too. Not waving but drowning.

John Donne. Batter my Heart. The Sunne Rising (to be recited when waking up next to someone you still fancy in the morning)

Andrew Marvell. To his Coy Mistresse. (when trying to get someone into bed)

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By *eliz NelsonMan
over a year ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

Eros harrows my heart

wild gales sweeping desolate mountains

uprooting oaks

Sappho

(Well theres one for Suzy waiting for the weekend!)

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

I have two constants,

Clearances by Seamus Heaney

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

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

Lady of shalot x

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

"I've always enjoyed Keats.

My favourite being a thing if beauty.

Lately I've started to read Algernon Charles Swinburne"

The film Bright Star changed my life, I swear

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