ooana Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Personally I'm a big fan of Anne Sexton and e.e. cummings.Here's an example of Sexton. This poem brought me to tears when I first read it, to the point that I refused to read more of her work until I could manage the emotions that it brought up in me. I hope you enjoy it. Would love to hear of anyone elses favorites/recommendations if willing to share.OLD DWARF HEART by Anne SextonWhen I lie down to love,old dwarf heart shakes her head.Like an imbecile she was born old.Her eyes wobble as thirty-one thick foldsof skin open to glare at me on my flickering bed.She knows the decay we're made of.When hurt she is abrupt.Now she is solid, like fat,breathing in loops like a green henin the dust. But if I dream of loving, thenmy dreams are of snarling strangers. *She* dreams that...Strange, strange, and corrupt.Good God, the things she knows!And worse, the sores she holdsin her hand, gathered in like a nestfrom an abandonded field. At her bestshe is all red muscle, humming in and out, cajoledby time. Where I go, she goes.Oh now I lay me down to love,how awkwardly her arms undo,how patiently I untangle her wristslike knots. Old ornament, old naked fist,even if I put on seventy coats I could not cover you...mother, father, I'm made of.------------------"When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her, and enters into her own image." -Eckhart"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry." - Thomas Mann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrlin Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Oddly enough, although I like good writing and powerful words, Ive never had a "Favorite" poet writer or a favorite type of style.I tend to ride my emotions, whatever they are, dependant on what I see, hear and feel. I regret not marking down passages I've read in the past simply because it puts me at a loss to answer this type of question.One day, perhaps. However, Ive learned to appreciate beautiful things and maybe, just maybe Ill have an answer in the future. ------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abstrakt Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Definetely Ice - T - Ali------------------This weeks gigs:Friday - Paco's titty barSaturday - Twilo ClosetPM for guestlist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPHERIC Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Frost. Some of my favorite philosophies are derived from these poets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nlichau Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Crackcorn of course! ------------------The music makes the people come together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmitt Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 the one on the show OZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carabee Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 LOVE...LOVE POETRY....YEATS, PARKER, AND FROST! Yummy stuff. I write alot as well. Its great catharsis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulsedriver Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 SYlvia PLath!!Also into the beatniks Ginsberg, burroughs, and kerouak!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikmyLipz Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 My sister.. I look up to her poetry alot. I think she has a wonderful talent. xoxoxo mwwwwwahz ------------------aim:LikmyLipzicq:101504929e-mail:LikmyLipz@aol.com />http://hometown.aol.com/lipzlipzlipz/LIPZ.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismakk69 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 SIR MIX ALOT...HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF HIS WORK...BABY IF YOU SEE ME ON THE FREEWAY DONT JUST PASS...PUT EM ON THE GLASS!!!------------------ ...aND oN THaT NoTe, LeTS GeT BaCK To THe PRoGRaM...PuFF...PuFF...PaSSSSSSSSS...e-mail: chrismakk69@aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahb53 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost. Love them both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippintrance64 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 mine is Neruda....here are three poems written by himPOETRYAnd it was at that age...Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don't know, I don't know whereit came from, from winter or a river.I don't know how or when,no, they were not voices, they were notwords, nor silence,but from a street I was summoned,from the branches of night,abruptly from the others,among violent firesor returning alone,there I was without a faceand it touched me.I did not know what to say, my mouthhad no waywith namesmy eyes were blind,and something started in my soul,fever or forgotten wings,and I made my own way,decipheringthat fireand I wrote the first faint line,faint, without substance, purenonsense,pure wisdomof someone who knows nothing,and suddenly I sawthe heavensunfastenedand open,planets,palpitating planations,shadow perforated,riddledwith arrows, fire and flowers,the winding night, the universe.And I, infinitesmal being,drunk with the great starryvoid,likeness, image ofmystery,I felt myself a pure partof the abyss,I wheeled with the stars,my heart broke free on the open sky.SADDEST POEMI can write the saddest poem of all tonight.Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.On nights like this, I held her in my arms.I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.She loved me, sometimes I loved her.How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.To hear the immense night, more immense without her.And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.The night is full of stars and she is not with me.That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.My soul is lost without her.As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.My heart searches for her and she is not with me.The same night that whitens the same trees.We, we who were, we are the same no longer.I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she oncebelonged to my kisses.Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.Love is so short and oblivion so long.Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,my soul is lost without her.Although this may be the last pain she causes me,and this may be the last poem I write for her.CLENCHED SOULWe have lost even this twilight.No one saw us this evening hand in handwhile the blue night dropped on the world.I have seen from my windowthe fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.I remembered you with my soul clenchedin that sadness of mine that you know.Where were you then?Who else was there?Saying what?Why will the whole of love come on me suddenlywhen I am sad and feel you are far away?The book fell that always closed at twilightand my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.Always, always you recede through the eveningstoward the twilight erasing statues.-----------------------"A man makes his sunshine, and he makes his rain. Look at what you have, and where you are, before you say, "I've had a horrible day" Appreciate what you have, and realize how much others wish they could have that much. Live Life, and LOVE IT!" --Me-----"THE BOWL OF FREEDOM IS KICKED! THE BOWL OF FREEDOM IS KICKED!" Melissa of the NJ ChaCha's-----"I can walk in straight lines, within my own crooked world" -a drunken Aramis Ponte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cazz926 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Nerudae.e. cummingsTori Amos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orchid21 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Anna Achmatova (not sure of the spelling)A. Pushkini am not sure how good are the translations...but in russian..uu baby...------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi_gami Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 William Cullen Bryant, Goethe, Brian Dodds, Ogden Nash, Nostradamus, R.L. Stevenson, Frost, Poe, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Keats, Yeats, and Dr. Seuss! Perhaps Erika Jong makes the list, as well, though I can only say I like some of her work. ------------------"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaction Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 No one can beat Screamin' Lord Byron..He was freakin' it up back in the day..T.S. Eliot is always good...Although some translations of Pablo Neruda are incredibly inspiring.. especially when one is in the pursuit of the fairer sex.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sariman Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsburg(Poe goes without being said IMO)//sariman------------------P eaceL oveU nityR espect"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today!" -- James Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safitamace319 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Originally posted by myrlin:Oddly enough, although I like good writing and powerful words, Ive never had a "Favorite" poet writer or a favorite type of style.I tend to ride my emotions, whatever they are, dependant on what I see, hear and feel. I regret not marking down passages I've read in the past simply because it puts me at a loss to answer this type of question.One day, perhaps. However, Ive learned to appreciate beautiful things and maybe, just maybe Ill have an answer in the future. i agree myrlin!!! hehe. but if i had to pick here are a few worth checkin out: Maya Angelou, Khalil Gibran, Poe, Frost, TS Eliot, Voltaire,Dickinson, etc. although dickinson i'm convinced was crazy. oh well most of em were. but hey tha'ts what made their words live on, ironic isn't it? just my .02 worth. ------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycetouch Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Walt Whitmanyou shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall no longer look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Oscar Wilde is cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubano43 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 I like the guy on OZ!! ------------------Hey sugar mama come and dance with me, the smartest thing you ever did was take a chance on me!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReginaP Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Ohhh boy...too many to count..but...the way Yeats puts words together is really poweful...T.S. Eliot/Ezra Pound...Christina Rossetti...Sharon Olds...etc etc etc ------------------=) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a691vcc Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 dddddd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 many of the above listed are among my favorites, but by far my favorite is Langston Hughes. if you're not familiar with him, become so.be coolstephen------------------we must cultivate our gardens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vejita Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 Robert Frost.-------------------=Vejita=-"Live through the week. Live for the weekend." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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