My oldest brother wrote a large amount of poetry before his death in 2020. Now his poems are all my favorite poems.
Sorry for your loss. I imagine your brother would appreciate it very much that his poems have a special place in your heart.
Thank you!
Sorry for your loss. Also, that was wonderful for me to read. Glad you had a such a great brother.
Thank you. I didn’t realize just how much he wrote!
I can’t get into poetry. I don’t know why, and trying to like most poetry just feels like such a contrived effort for me. I feel like I’m missing out on something good, like my brain’s tastebuds for poetry are dead :(
That said, maybe I should try to read more poetry and see if there’s something that hits me.
I think a lot’s about the environment. Poetry would - before TV - be read aloud. If you’re with friends in a park, but you’re bored, a nice poem would probably be a lot more entertaining than listening to the birds.
Open poetry nights can still be kinda fun if you’re sitting with a beer, and the poet’s funny.
The aggrieved and the injured say, “Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us.” And the passionate say, “Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread. Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”
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My local elementary school had this poem on a plaque in front…Robert Frost Elementary… unfortunately my parents wouldn’t allow me to attend public school.
A young woman/ Planting seedlings/ Plants towards her crying baby
-Takari Kikaku
Poems are like the seasons. My favorites change, but this poem has been on my mind a lot lately
I like the fall The mist and all I like the night owl’s lonely call And wailing sound Of wind around I like the gray November day And bare, dead boughs that coldly sway Against my pane I like the rain I like to sit And laugh at it And tend my cozy fire a bit I like the fall The mist and allDid you write that? I currently live in the Caribbean, but am from the NE US…this poem is exactly how I feel often.
I really enjoyed reading it…whether yours or not, thank you for sharing.
Not mine. “Dixie Wilson” apparently. http://holyjoe.org/poetry/willson.htm
I will have to look into this person…i thought i wasnt a poetry guy…but that poem really touched me.
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Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. It’s the beautifullest English I’ve ever read.
"Tabacaria"1 by Álvaro de Campos (a Fernando Pessoa heteronym). Here’s an English translation.
It’s regarded by many as one of the best poems by him, and it is also a favourite of mine. The original version conveys so much in a brilliant flow of words, which, unfortunately, gets a somewhat lost with translations.
1 From the “official” archive.
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in Just- by e e cummings
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47247/in-just
I love how cummings creates visuals both through his diction choices as well as other tools like spacing, capitalization, etc.
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