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by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on December 30th, 2008
I love modern poetry. The tradition of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot - making it new. Not following convention, norms, and getting unruly. I love poetry with a lot of spirit and style. "Love Song for Alfred Prufrock" is absolutely amazing. And e.e. cummings is just fantastic. Don't get me wrong, I love a good old fashioned sonnet, but I think poetry has become something positively exciting.
by sm00z on December 31st, 2008
Creating original Haiku poetry about nature.
by Account Closed on December 31st, 2008
I don't really have a favorite as long as it expresses the emotion of the writer I enjoy it.
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on December 31st, 2008
Hard to categorize it...I can tell you the poets whose work I've purchsed...
e. e. cummings
T.S. Eliot
Dylan Thomas
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Emily Dickinson
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Federico Garcia Lorca
by TattooedSoul on July 7th, 2009
Narrative. I enjoy the novelistic approach to poetry and songs.
by Anonymous on July 6th, 2009
..BIRTH CONTROL IN MIDDLE AGES
In days of old, when knights were bold,
and condomns weren't invented. Girls
tied Socks around Men's Cocks, and
babies were prevented.
Now, times are new and Socks are worn..
upon the feet much tighter. I can't
use Socks for birth control - they
might stink up her vagina.
In the near future when tests are done,
and condoms continue to leak. It's
the withdrawal method I'll try to use,
but after she's asleep.
In days of old when knights were bold,
and socks went out of fashion. Men of
Honor stopped using socks, and "Raw"
they went with passion.
by liz7600 on April 14th, 2009
i like haiku alot...but acrostic is another one of my favorites
by vera city on January 22nd, 2009
iambic pentameter is easiest for me to enter into
but i do love me some blank verse as well
by 1THING on January 22nd, 2009
Any type of poetry is beautiful. I enjoy them all.
by johngo on January 22nd, 2009
Poem for an older man flirting with a much younger woman:
Elegie: his picture
Here take my picture; though I bid farewell,
Thine, in my heart, where my soule dwels shall dwell.
'Tis like me now, but I dead, 'twill be more
When wee are shadows both, than 'twas before.
When weather-beaten I come back; my hand,
Perhaps with rude oares torne, or Sun beames tann'd,
My face and brest of hairecloth, and my head
With cares rash sodaine hoarinesse o'rspread,
My body a sack of bones, broken within,
And powders blue staines scattered on my skin;
If rivall fooles taxe thee to have lov'd a man,
So foule and coarse, as, Oh, I may seeme then,
This shall say what I was: and thou shalt say,
Doe his hurts reach mee? Doth my worth decay?
Or doe they reach his judging minde, that hee
Should now love lesse, what he did love to see?
That which in him was fair and delicate,
Was but the milke, which in loves childish state
Did nurse it: who now is grown strong enough
To feed on that, which to disused tasts seems tough.
by Nadia on January 22nd, 2009
I enjoy Poe's the raven(the pattern is just exquisite)+city in the sea, John Donne, Louis MacNeice prayer before birth,Emily Dickenson etc..
I think the best ones are those you wish you could've written,lol! you know, the ones you are almost jealous of!! And as long as it is sincere...
by Carrot and Stick on January 10th, 2009
I loved John Donne's metaphysical poem A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning.
AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
So let us melt, and make no noise, 5
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ;
Men reckon what it did, and meant ; 10
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
—Whose soul is sense—cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove 15
The thing which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so 25
As stiff twin compasses are two ;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam, 30
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run ;
Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35
And makes me end where I begun.
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It was the most beautiful poem I have ever read. I love all types of poetry, except for the "beatnik" poems.
by Shan is Purrrrrfectly Happy on January 9th, 2009
i cannot pick a favorite. i love all styles of poetry. everything from william blake, ts eliot, rumi, pablo neruda ee cummings, walt whitman, langston hughes, emily dickinson, robert frost, sappho, chaucer, edgar allan poe, sylvia plath, shakespeare, lewis carroll, rainier maria rilke, oscar wilde, edna st. vincent millay, carl sandburg, henry david thoreau, kahlil gibran, tu fu, li po, to hindu and buddhist poets. i also love haiku.
by Anon y mouse on January 3rd, 2009
Mystical poetry - Rumi, Kabir, Zen poetry, that sort of thing.
by Aksafari on January 3rd, 2009
Lyrical poetry is ok.
I kind of prefer epics and ballads.
Favorite artists, Robert Service, E.A. Poe.
by johngo on January 3rd, 2009
Metaphysicals, cavaliers, Victorian romantics, Swinburne, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Browning. All in my poetry collection (except for the ones still in copyright . . .)
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The big gap is the 18th century. I suppose I can stand some Pope: I'd love to own a copy of the edition of The Rape of the Lock illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley; and some of the livelier bits of Swift are diverting, but the rest bore me.
I don't care for Spenser or Milton, but I can still pick up The Canterbury Tales occasionally, say once every 10 or 15 years, and enjoy the language.
Poems that I like make sense, and rhyme and scan, because formal rigour makes remembering the poem easier, and if a poem is worth reading, it may be worth remembering.
. . .
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre —
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
You can't achieve that kind of effect, or that kind of memorability in free verse.
by ChuckExAnon on December 31st, 2008
Lyrics...poetry that is combined with beautiful music, especially when it soothes and comforts my late stage Alzheimer's afflicted "best friend".
by Kewl Guy - has gone 360 on December 30th, 2008
Helen Steiner Rice
by Symbeline on December 30th, 2008
Anything dark and depressing, moody and Emo lol.
What is a credo poem?
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Would this be at least somewhat okay as a rough draft for a non-rhyming poem...? It's due tomorrow. (Read Description)
by Death Note57 on December 5th, 2011
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what is your favorite poem or lyric?
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I agree, there is so much to explore and still as much to be written.
A great list of geniuses for sure!
It's hard to choose one type for me but I went with metaphysical because that was the first to grab me and fuel my interest.
by Prime wants the old AB back on December 30th, 2008
Like John Donne!! Love it!
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on December 30th, 2008
Oh now you have my attention!
One of my favorites!
I can't miss out doing this before you go this evening (I wanted to make sure to catch you before you did)
{{{{{{{Goodnight Hugs!!!}}}}}}}
by Prime wants the old AB back on December 30th, 2008
Awwwwwwwww
I am so grateful you are here
I feel like I am being tucked in!!!
Goodnight, Poppa!!!
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
<3
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on December 30th, 2008
Sleep well Daffodil. :)
by Prime wants the old AB back on December 30th, 2008
And I'm off... happy dreams :D
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on December 30th, 2008
But TS Eliot, Ezra Pound and EE Cummings wrote most of their more famous stuff 70/80 years ago... there's much more "modern" stuff than that. :os
Of 21st Century poets, I recommend Alice Oswald and Simon Armitage for starters.
by hijklmno on December 31st, 2008
Excellent choices. I majored in a Modern Literature program in College. Ezra Pound, ee, and TS were the founders of this movement. Obviously, these poets seem antiquated now - LOL - but at the time, they introduced a revolutionary school of thought to poetry. The idea was to "Make it New" - and so they did. Modern has quite a twist to it, when considering context. Thanks for your comment - Happy New Year!
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on December 31st, 2008
Yes, I know that :)
But they were Modernist writers. Which was modern at the time. They aren't modern now. :)
by hijklmno on January 1st, 2009
modern schmodern i agree with you sixty b. they ROCK!!!
by Shan is Purrrrrfectly Happy on January 9th, 2009
Thanks, Shan!!! <High Five>
It's Saturday YAAAAY
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on January 10th, 2009
YAY!!! <HIGH FIVE BACK> this is a special saturday for me. i just finished a four-month research gig on thursday and im taking a break from real estate during the cold winter months. so its SUPER SATURDAY VACATION!!! WOOOOO!!! PARTY!!!!!!
by Shan is Purrrrrfectly Happy on January 10th, 2009
PARTY!!!!!!!!
Right on!!!! I'm with ya in spirit!!! Wooo HOOOOOO
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on January 10th, 2009