Give me pretty words!

[unamaga]

I know I updated, like, a half an hour ago--but! I had a thought (scary as that is).

I love poetry and I have my favorite poets, but I haven't really branched out past the classic poetry writers like Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, etc.

So.

List me your favorite poems, right here in the comments, and tell me why you like them so much. That's right. GO NOW, DO EEET. :D

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[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

Oh. But I also do rather love another one can I have two?

It's called The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.


Ok so I couldn't recite that one right off. But I love it. It makes me sad and think of all the composers who went off the rails and/or died in the First World War...

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is sad...and yet so beautiful.

p.s. you can have as many as you want! that's the fun of it!

[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to find some of my favourite kids' ones. Hold on...:oP

Here we go!

[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

Burying the Dog in the Garden by Brian Patten

When we buried

the dog in

the garden on

the grave we put

a cross and

the tall man

next door was

cross.

'Animals have no

souls,' he said.

'They must have animal

souls,' we said. 'No,'

he said and

shook his head.

'Do you need a

soul to go

to Heaven?' we

asked. He nodded

his head. 'Yes,'

he said.

'That means my

hamster's not

in heaven,' said

Kevin. 'Nor is

my dog,' I said.

'My cat could sneak

in anywhere,' said

Clare. And we thought

what a strange place Heaven

must be with

nothing to stroke

for eternity.

We were all

seven.

We decided we

did not want to

go to Heaven.

For that the

tall man next

door is to blame.



I like that.

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[unamaga.livejournal.com]

That just made me really sad, for some reason.

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[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

Go on, then, I'll give you the last of my fave kids poems to cheer you up :0D

My Eyes are Watering by Trevor Harvey

I've got a cold

And that is why

My eyes are watering.



It's nothing to do

With getting caught

When I had planned

To SMASH

The rounders ball

SO FAR

That is would go

Into PERMANENT ORBIT

Round the school.

It would've done, too -

If Lucy Smith

Hadn't RUSHED

To catch it.

"Look at Trevor -

He's having a cry!"

Not true.

I've got a cold

And THAT is why

My eyes are watering.



OK?

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[unamaga.livejournal.com]

*spazzes!* That is so ADORABLE in a sort of sad-making way! I love it.

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[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of Neville Longbottom. Probably cos the kid's called Trevor :0P

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[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Awww, Neville!