Who is your favorite poet?
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Taylor Mali- In my signature also.
YouTube - "Speak With Conviction" Taylor Mali (Def Poetry)
YouTube - "Speak With Conviction" Taylor Mali (Def Poetry)
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Give me some poetry that you don't have to spend 5 minutes after every line trying to figure out what they are saying!! I guess I just have a pea brain!
It is really hard to pick...
Top 5:
James Mitsui
Billy Collins
Taylor Mali
William Stafford
Robert Bly
There is this guy named Roger Pemberton that I hear is amazing.
Hi, I'm Roger.
Top 5:
James Mitsui
Billy Collins
Taylor Mali
William Stafford
Robert Bly
There is this guy named Roger Pemberton that I hear is amazing.
Hi, I'm Roger.
Give me some poetry that you don't have to spend 5 minutes after every line trying to figure out what they are saying!! I guess I just have a pea brain!
Poetry 180 - My Daughters in New York
Poetry 180 - Introduction to Poetry
Poetry 180 - The Death of Santa Claus
Poetry 180 - Who Burns
It is really hard to pick...
Top 5:
James Mitsui
Billy Collins
Taylor Mali
William Stafford
Robert Bly
There is this guy named Roger Pemberton that I hear is amazing.
Hi, I'm Roger.
LOL...anything published?
See...I read two of them. I just don't get the passion of poetry. I actually have read a few I like...but for the most part find it boring. I guess I'm just not 'refined' enough!!!
A few. Nothing to brag about. I only submit my stuff for publishing so it will look good when I apply to a MFA program.
Here are three if you want to check them out:
Three Poems by Roger Pemberton | Word Riot
See...I read two of them. I just don't get the passion of poetry. I actually have read a few I like...but for the most part find it boring. I guess I'm just not 'refined' enough!!!
Trust me, it has nothing to do with being refined. Some people enjoy it, some people don't.
People have asked why I write poetry. My standard reply is that I'm not a good enough writer for novels and if someone doesn't like my poetry I can just put on a pretentious tone and say something along the lines of: "I wouldn't expect someone of such lowly education to understand."
Bob Marley
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you have to sing
This songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you have to sing
This songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Baudelaire
Dude was all sorts of syph crazy like the van gogh of the poetry world..
Has all kinds of little short stories with morals too...and often very twisted
like kicking the .... of the guy who installs the windows in the city and gives the poor district the crappy windows while the rich get the stained glass...and how it should be the other way round..so he beats the guy..
or how society is like a stray dog who turns it nose up at fine perfume but will eat garbage all day long..
One of his books of poetry "les fleurs du mal" (that's right the flowers of evil (or sickness)) has some interesting poems.. including this "love" poem called the carrion where he spends like 4 pages reflecting about a walk he took with his beloved and the dead deer carcass they found bloated in a shallow stream and much graphic detail of how it looked and smelled...and at the end telling her someday she'll be like that too and he'll still love her..
That cat was wild..
Dude was all sorts of syph crazy like the van gogh of the poetry world..
Has all kinds of little short stories with morals too...and often very twisted
like kicking the .... of the guy who installs the windows in the city and gives the poor district the crappy windows while the rich get the stained glass...and how it should be the other way round..so he beats the guy..
or how society is like a stray dog who turns it nose up at fine perfume but will eat garbage all day long..
One of his books of poetry "les fleurs du mal" (that's right the flowers of evil (or sickness)) has some interesting poems.. including this "love" poem called the carrion where he spends like 4 pages reflecting about a walk he took with his beloved and the dead deer carcass they found bloated in a shallow stream and much graphic detail of how it looked and smelled...and at the end telling her someday she'll be like that too and he'll still love her..
That cat was wild..
I love William Butler Yeats...
When You are Old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
--W. B. Yeats
When You are Old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
--W. B. Yeats
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