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Voivre
Posts : 406 Join date : 2014-04-20 Age : 34 Location : Las Vegas, NV
| Subject: What's your favourite poem? Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:37 pm | |
| As the title says, what is your favourite poem? Mine is Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
It goes..
"Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, 'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich - yes, richer than a king - And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head." _________________ |
| | | Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:51 pm | |
| Mines pretty long but il share it non the less, best i put a spoiler love me abit of H.P along with his poem despair - Spoiler:
O’er the midnight moorlands crying, Thro’ the cypress forests sighing, In the night-wind madly flying, Hellish forms with streaming hair; In the barren branches creaking, By the stagnant swamp-pools speaking, Past the shore-cliffs ever shrieking; Damn’d daemons of despair.
Once, I think I half remember, Ere the grey skies of November Quench’d my youth’s aspiring ember, Liv’d there such a thing as bliss; Skies that now are dark were beaming, Gold and azure, splendid seeming Till I learn’d it all was dreaming— Deadly drowsiness of Dis.
But the stream of Time, swift flowing, Brings the torment of half-knowing— Dimly rushing, blindly going Past the never-trodden lea; And the voyager, repining, Sees the wicked death-fires shining, Hears the wicked petrel’s whining As he helpless drifts to sea.
Evil wings in ether beating; Vultures at the spirit eating; Things unseen forever fleeting Black against the leering sky. Ghastly shades of bygone gladness, Clawing fiends of future sadness, Mingle in a cloud of madness Ever on the soul to lie.
Thus the living, lone and sobbing, In the throes of anguish throbbing, With the loathsome Furies robbing Night and noon of peace and rest. But beyond the groans and grating Of abhorrent Life, is waiting Sweet Oblivion, culminating All the years of fruitless quest.
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| | | yllmatoshi
Posts : 124 Join date : 2015-04-18 Age : 26
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| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sat Jan 02, 2016 1:40 am | |
| A Soldier reported to the Saint "One more Soldier reporting for duty sir , i served my time in hell" from medal of honor _________________ [i] "Even in your darkest hours, we will protect you" |
| | | WykdGrl
Posts : 101 Join date : 2015-04-26 Location : San Francisco
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:11 pm | |
| Mine is actually "There will come soft rains" by Sara Teasdale. I have it tattooed on my leg. If you want to hear it, just go to Georgetown .... |
| | | Mercy
Posts : 3664 Join date : 2014-08-06 Age : 30
Character sheet Name: Slan Faction: Futadroids Level: ∞
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:15 pm | |
| "Despair" by HP Lovecraft, his way with words haunts me. http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p168.aspx |
| | | prophet275
Posts : 169 Join date : 2014-06-27 Age : 31 Location : Earth
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| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:39 pm | |
| "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
_________________ Only Despair can save you! Only I can save you! |
| | | DVAted
Posts : 5995 Join date : 2014-02-23 Age : 36 Location : in the forests of the night
Character sheet Name: DeViAted Faction: GUNners Level: 55
| | | | Finnbear
Posts : 17 Join date : 2016-01-25 Location : Omicron Persei 8
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:20 am | |
| If by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son. |
| | | Alfigar
Posts : 59 Join date : 2014-12-15 Age : 25 Location : Brazil
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:29 am | |
| ''Blue Bird'' by Charles Bukowski - Spoiler:
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? you want to screw up the works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?
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| | | SwagnumPi
Posts : 1 Join date : 2016-07-12 Age : 27 Location : Scotland
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:21 am | |
| (First post ) "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger - I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair. It may be he shall take my hand And lead me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breath— It may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. God knows ‘twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, Where hushed awakenings are dear... But I’ve a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.:
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| | | Overdone
Posts : 320 Join date : 2015-04-30 Age : 28 Location : Nebraska, US
Character sheet Name: Rayford Faction: Independent Level: 24
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:42 am | |
| "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas - Spoiler:
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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| | | GumShoe
Posts : 51 Join date : 2016-09-14 Age : 34 Location : San Francisco, CA
Character sheet Name: Muldoon Kingsley Faction: Desert Ranger Level: 21
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sun Oct 09, 2016 1:10 am | |
| "From little towns in a far land we came, To save our honour and a world aflame. By little towns in a far land we sleep; And trust that world we won for you to keep!" By Rudyard Kipling _________________ Yours sincerely, GumShoe
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| | | Hoppyhead
Posts : 1259 Join date : 2014-02-24 Age : 45 Location : Behind You...
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| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:24 am | |
| The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot - Spoiler:
Mistah Kurtz - he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy I
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
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Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer-
Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.
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The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.
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Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is Life is For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
Long poem but my favorite part is the end This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. |
| | | zoro4661
Posts : 898 Join date : 2015-04-18 Age : 26
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| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sun Oct 09, 2016 5:53 am | |
| I was never one for poems, but the ones by "poem_for_your_sprog" (a reddit user) always spoke to me. My favourite by her is this one:
When little Timmy went to pee, And in the clinic woke: 'You'll need an appendectomy!' His doctor sagely spoke.
'Now Timmy,' said the surgeon, grave, 'I've urgent words, and more - Be fearless, firm, or bold and brave, But never eat before!'
The scalpels, salves, and saws were set. He faced the pain with pride. But Timmy ate a ham baguette.
And Timmy fucking died. |
| | | Haitch_Kay
Posts : 59 Join date : 2016-02-18 Location : Arkansas
| Subject: Re: What's your favourite poem? Sun Oct 09, 2016 9:44 pm | |
| Not very well versed in poetry but this one just moves me every time: I dig You dig He digs She digs They dig We dig I know it's not very pretty or long, but it is very deep! |
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