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👽 eph

Do you have a favorite poem? If yes, would you share it?

2 years ago · 👍 jo, angryboyd, dreammachines, user, hedy

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👽 user

If by Rudyard Kipling · 2 years ago

👽 eph

Если жизнь тебя обманет

is my favorite Pushkin poem. I’m not sure I have a favorite poem in English, (that is, I can’t choose lol), though I do like ‘light sail star bound’ by Joel Nathaniel. · 2 years ago

👽 astroseneca

There is also a short wonderful poem by Oliver Herford like "I Heard a Bird Sing":

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December.

A magical thing

And sweet to remember.

"We are nearer to Spring

Than we were in September,”

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December.

https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=569 · 2 years ago

https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=569

👽 digbat

Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day; Delmore Schwartz: that time is the fire in which we burn. · 2 years ago

👽 dreammachines

I think "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson is a great poem. · 2 years ago

👽 angryboyd

it doesn't fit in the text box, and i'd rather not cut it since it lessens the impact, but Ballad of Orange and Grape by Muriel Rukeyser, I read it in a children's poem book as a little kid and it's been my favorite since, even before I really understood the message.

link:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57158/ballad-of-orange-and-grape · 2 years ago

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57158/ballad-of-orange-and-grape

👽 bavarianbarbarian

@danrl this is also very nice, we are blessed to have such great poets, lessing, schiller, goethe, droste-huelshof, heiner, fontane, herder usw... · 2 years ago

👽 danrl

the fisher. beautiful use of language.

a rough translation reads (excerpt):

She spake to him, she sang to him;

Then all with him was o'er,—

Half drew she him, half sank he in,—

He sank to rise no more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fischer_(Goethe) · 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fischer_(Goethe)

👽 bavarianbarbarian

for my german speaking fellow capsuleers, i'd recommend this: https://genius.com/Eisregen-was-vom-leben-ubrig-bleibt-lyrics · 2 years ago

https://genius.com/Eisregen-was-vom-leben-ubrig-bleibt-lyrics

👽 mircea

@astroseneca Ah the bloody Battle at Borodino, a terrible day for many. I found the poem quite good.

One of my favorites is from Tennyson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade · 2 years ago

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade

👽 bavarianbarbarian

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. · 2 years ago

👽 astroseneca

The poem of Borodino by M. Lermontov. Despite the dubious historical value, there one line just clings to another and so on until the end of the poem. I learned it easily, despite my poor memory. By the way, the poet Lermontov himself was noted for cutting out the local population in the Caucasus as part of a special unit of the Russian army. A disgusting person, but a brilliant poet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino_(poem) · 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino_(poem)

👽 jo

hmm i never like claiming absolute favs since tasted change but In The Desert by Stephen Crane [1] is a real banger.

i think that "do not stand at my grave and weep" [2] is a good contestant for my 2nd fav poem. not my favourite poem but a good one is FLOATING DEATH SKULL ON ICE, SALT RIM [3] by someone on tumblr

1 - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46457/in-the-desert-56d2265793693

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep

3 - https://filmnoirsbian.tumblr.com/post/694253470263508992/this-is-the-poem-btw-hemmingway-eat-ur-fucking · 2 years ago

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46457/in-the-desert-56d2265793693

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep

https://filmnoirsbian.tumblr.com/post/694253470263508992/this-is-the-poem-btw-hemmingway-eat-ur-fucking