favorite poem

[Robert S.]

While stuck in the Black Hole of the beginning of the IBIS process, waiting for my wife's visa, I wrote a haiku:

 

 

 

Security checks

China lady terrorists

Exploding dumplings

 

 

 

Trigg, that was a stunning Robert Graves poem I had not seen before. Thanks for posting it.

[Trigg]

Yes robert, everytime I get full of myself I read it. It breaks my images and therefore clearifies my lack of insight---great poem. I have it embossed on clear plastic. Behind it is a broken mirror-then a frame. It looks broken. Those who first see it always say, the thing, it is broken--then read it and ....

[hypoclear]

Thanks Cosmic..

 

I like to think I have some good taste.. heheh

 

I grew up in the Pioneer valley or as is sometimes called the con river valley. So the seasons and the hills aways surrounded me as a child.

 

When I moved to Chicago.. I almost got dizzy standing on the Milwalkee ave El station looking west!! hehehe I had never in my life been able to see that far..

On top of the Sears tower and I'll be damned!!! the earth really does curve or at least the horizion does...

 

Mark and Bea

[frank1538]

I stand in awe of those of you who have quoted some of the classics. I guess my preference for poems from Ireland, as in Limerick, just won't make the grade here.

[sylinchinastill]

Chinese poetry does rhyme- but instead of rhyming at the end of the sentence they use a lot of internal rhyme- as well as sometimes rhyming in couplets as so much Western poetry does. Obviously- the rhyme won't translate- but here is some Chinese poetry...

With the Rumpus Rooms topics lately- this is oddly appropriate-

 

Weep Not, Young Women

It is always sad autumn when our enemies

sweep down their raiders

from the mountains to invade us.

 

The trumpets summon the warriors!

They will ride on till they come to the great wall.

Then they will ride beyond it,

out on the great Gobi desert.

 

There, only the cold bare moon.

Only cold beads of dew on swords and shields.

How they shiver.

 

Weep not, young women... This is no time

to start your weeping.

Who knows how long

that you must weep?

Li Po

 

I Will Be Alone

This Lake at Kunming, how wondrous it

was in the days of Han! Then it flotaed a

parade of proud war-junks gay with flags

... Now it is only a bare mirror at night

for the spinning boy... That star-boy who

does not flee from cold.

 

Black seed-pods from the Koumi blow on it now.

There are lilies and lotus flowers too...

But soon the north wind will rip away their leaves.

 

And I will be alone with my unhappiness.

TuFu

 

I think Tu Fu is spelled Du Fu now but I'm not sure- these guys are the two most famous Chinese poets.

[Guest DragonFlower]

HI,Syl

I have a picture of my love and I standing by the lake at Kunming.I will post it sometime.

 

Thanks Cosmic

 

 

 

 

 

I am not a poet,just a man

Sometimes the emotions that issue from my soul,

find their way into words that rhyme,sometimes not

This is the poetry of life,not the poetry of words

On occassion the emotions transcend the power of

mere words to contain the reality

Never the less, we all feel the need to share

the truth of our existence

 

So I will try

 

 

 

long

[Robert S.]

I stand in awe of those of you who have quoted some of the classics.  I guess my preference for poems from Ireland, as in Limerick, just won't make the grade here.

What???!!!!

 

What about Yeats? One of the greatest giants of poetry!