Favorite Poems?

AsianSuperfly · February 2014

Not a poem but rather a song.

A Mother's Love Is A Blessing
(Thomas P Keenan)

An Irish boy was leaving
Leaving his native home
Crossing the broad Atlantic
Once more he wished to roam
And as he was leaving his mother
Who was standing on the quay
She threw her arms around his waist
And this to him did say

A mother's love's a blessing
No matter where you roam
Keep her while she's living
You'll miss her when she's gone
Love her as in childhood
Though feeble, old and grey
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay

And as the years go onwards
I'll settle down in life
And choose a nice young colleen
And take her for my wife
And as the babes grow older
And climb around my knee
I'll teach them the very same lesson
That my mother taught to me

A mother's love's a blessing
No matter where you roam
Keep her while she's living
You'll miss her when she's gone
Love her as in childhood
Though feeble, old and grey
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay

Remember this for Mothers Day.

"A mother's love's a blessing
No matter where you roam
Keep her while she's living
You'll miss her when she's gone
Love her as in childhood
Though feeble, old and grey
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay" <<<<<< I like this verse.

Myhaloslipped · February 2014

In the pale light of midnight I tried to take flight
But my wings were too weak and the stars were too bright

So I waited a week til the winter winds blew
Stars were shrouded in clouds and the moon was too

Not a thing alive witnessed my wings unfold
As my breath grew quick and my heart grew bold

And soon I was soaring, oh, upwards and on
Til the sky was all ‘round and the ground was gone

And I watched as each object, each person, each place
Became one glowing orb spinning slowly in space

And I thought to myself, ‘through the eyes of a bird
This life and this Earth seem entirely absurd’

Then I suddenly felt indescribably small
And wondered if anything mattered at all

Like what people wished for or what people felt
Or whether the ice caps would finally melt

Then, I realized, after an hour or two
That things matter, because, they matter to you

Although what you do won’t change much from up here
It can comfort or crush those you find yourself near

This universe may be enormous and strange
But look close to home and there’s much you can change

And now that I know it, that’s just what I’ll do
Informed and enthused by my new point of view

It seems that such questions as grand as existence
Can only be solved from a reasonable distance

By Metaphorest

Chieflrg · February 2014

Open your eyes and see your canvas of life.

Don't hide the brush strokes of failures.

Embrace them.

Allow your achievements to bleed into them & create colors not seen by the eye,

but by the heart.

~Lanny

Skinnymunkii · February 2014

http://youtu.be/9G4ZXZntK_I

:flowerforyou:

sheepysaccount · February 2014

I am a little obsessed with poetry, so bear with me. For some unusual poetry, see the last four.

My favorites are
any sonnet by Shakespeare
"The Road Not Taken" - Robert Frost
"Like This" - Rumi
"Annabel Lee" - Edgar Allan Poe
"Jabberwocky" - Lewis Carroll
"Kubla Khan" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To a Mouse" - Robert Burns
"A Dream" - Christina Rossetti
"Walking Around" - Pablo Neruda
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven" - W.B. Yeats

"Andrew" - Andrea Gibson (her poetry in general is amazing!)
"Desidarata" - Max Ehrmann (not your traditional poetry)
"Why I Hate REligion, But Love Jesus" - Jefferson Bethke (spoken word, but that also counts, right?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY
"may i feel said he" - e.e. cumming (and yes, this is raunchy)
also, listen to it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-HIedmktE

LeanneHarrington3 · February 2014

Mary Rose sat on a pin. Mary Rose.

Does that count?

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