Do you have a favorite poem? If so ... what is it?
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My favorite poem is Desiderata ...
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence ....
I'm not actually sure it is a poem ... it is more a long list of tidbits of wonderful advice ...
http://www.geocities.com/cincin21/Desider.html
I like the Desiderata too - it is prominently placed in our house. My favorite poet is Rudyard Kipling, and my favorite poem by him is "If". . .
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you . . .
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everthings that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Here is a new one that I really like, but I do not know the author:
"I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening, When I counted my scanty store.
For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid."
So many poems. From the classics of the Victorian era...swinburne, brownings, wilde, to more contemporaries such as WH Auden, but my favorite poet currently is Maya Angelou and her poem "Still I rise"
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6834&poem=33053
Bronco!
Are you a Dr. Wayne Dwyer fan. I first saw the "bargain my life for a penny" poem in his book. I have a copy and just looked it up, Poem is by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Makes a statement, doesn't it?
It's called Dirty Knees and it's at preciouspromise.blogspot.com
ANNABEL LEE by Edgar Allan Poe.
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/annabel.html
Emily Dickinson - Impossibility, like Wine
Impossibility, like Wine
Exhilarates the Man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavorless -- Combine
A Chance's faintest Tincture
And in the former Dram
Enchantment makes ingredient
As certainly as Doom --
Today this is my favorite poem. Tomorrow may be another.
The Hounds of Heaven by Francis Thompson. It was written after Thompson's recovery from addiction -- we all have our addictions, don't we?
http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2004/040116.html
or
http://www.cin.org/liter/hound.html
Don't ask me why...but I really like Beach Baby Bev's! LOL
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