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I do like ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost. The road "less traveled" symbolizes the path of nonconformity.
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Meeting at Night BY ROBERT BROWNING
The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each!
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E. E. Cummings, hands down.
Or perhaps e.
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Was introduced to this one in 11th grade, I thought it was the coolest and most nihilistic poem I'd ever read:
[Buffalo Bill 's] By E. E. Cummings Buffalo Bill ’s defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus
he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mister Death
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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I'm surprised that John Milton hasn't been mentioned yet.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred."
and Bob Nolan "Old Dan and I with throats burned dry And souls that cry for water"
ETA: Dang, I almost forgot Homer
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Longfellow for one, as he is a distant relative and his poem the blacksmith was about another relative.
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Yeats, The Second Coming. T.S. Elliot. Some Wallace Stevens and Dylan Thomas.
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Jim Harrison
Charles Bukowski
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Jim Harrison
Charles Bukowski Her panties My soul A bit of [bleep] on each Robert Frost was no real poet. But he was popularized for some reason.
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Lol, Charles Manson
A Poem About An Old Prison Man
Waiting on Death Row People coming in overalls Taking me to the gas chamber Scuffling of feet They took him down the hallway Feeling everyone's heartbeat The central control of the soul Batons and retro-tons Ingrown toenails One time all around you All round you, bump-bump Save my air, save my air My air, my air Air, water, trees Machines eating the night Energy moving Nuclear fires Burning reactors on my gate Fires of hell are burning Come home Can you see Can you say That you say That you really love this place?
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I have tried to read poetry a few times. It just isn't enjoyable at all. I don't like any poets.
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any rumi or rubaiyat khayyam fans?
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Dave Mustaine
prophetic poetry from '88
A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies A little man with a big eraser, changing history Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws Follow the instructions of the New Ways' Evil Book of Rules Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools You say you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway? Ever think maybe it was meant to be this way? Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come And I believe my kingdom will come
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants".
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any rumi or rubaiyat khayyam fans? 'The world is God's pure mirror, To eyes when free within ...' Rumi
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There once was a man from Nantucket.... I think I remember that one------how does the rest of it go ??
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Your true character shows in your conduct
You cannot solve a problem at the same level of awareness that created it - Einstein
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I have tried to read poetry a few times. It just isn't enjoyable at all. I don't like any poets. I don't often either. In High School, about 1972, several of us would gather in our Library and listen to EA Poe on vinyl. We were intrigued at the time, being all of fifteen years old. Recently I picked up "The complete works of Poe". OMG, what in the hell was wrong with our adolescent selves. That schitt sucks donkey balls. Morbid and depressing does not begin to describe Poe's writing.
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Here I sit, all broken hearted.
Paid a dime............
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My maternal grandfather passed when I was eleven. But the thing I remember he bequeathed to me was an introduction to Robert W. Service, Jack London, and Rudyard Kipling.
Grin
If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about — Grin. If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're licked beyond a doubt — Grin.
Don't let him see you're funking, let him know with every clout, Though your face is battered to a pulp, your blooming heart is stout; Just stand upon your pins until the beggar knocks you out — And grin.
This life's a bally battle, and the same advice holds true Of grin. If you're up against it badly, then it's only one on you, So grin.
If the future's black as thunder, don't let people see you're blue; Just cultivate a cast-iron smile of joy the whole day through; If they call you "Little Sunshine", wish that THEY'D no troubles, too — You may — grin.
Rise up in the morning with the will that, smooth or rough, You'll grin. Sink to sleep at midnight, and although you're feeling tough, Yet grin.
There's nothing gained by whining, and you're not that kind of stuff; You're a fighter from away back, and you WON'T take a rebuff; Your trouble is that you don't know when you have had enough — Don't give in.
If Fate should down you, just get up and take another cuff; You may bank on it that there is no philosophy like bluff, And grin.
ya!
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And one that will stand any young/old man in good stead!
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!
ya!
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A Kill Artist. When I draw, I draw blood.
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