jelly bean Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 “… If anything matters then everything matters.Because you are important, everything you do is important.Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.”– Wm. Paul Young Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Endymion - A thing of Beauty by John Keats Quote Link to comment
Seta Sinestro Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 If each day fallsinside each night,there exists a wellwhere clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rimof the well of darknessand fish for fallen lightwith patience. - Pablo Neruda Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 “You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time... Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.” ― John Keats 1 Quote Link to comment
CHRman Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Sorting Laundry" by Elisavietta Ritchie Folding clothes,I think of folding youinto my life. Our king-sized sheetslike tableclothsfor the banquets of giants, pillowcases, despite so manywashings, seems stillholding our dreams. Towels patterned orange and green,flowered pink and lavender,gaudy, bought on sale, reserved, we said, for the beach,refusing, even after years,to bleach into respectability. So many shirts and skirts and pantsrecycling week after week, head over heelsrecapitulating themselves. All those wrinklesTo be smoothed, or elseignored; they're in style. Myriad uncoupled sockswhich went paired into the foamlike those creatures in the ark. And what's shrunkis tough to discardeven for Goodwill. In pockets, surprises:forgotten matches,lost screws clinking the drain; well-washed dollars, legal tenderfor all debts public and private,intact despite agitation; and, gleaming in the maelstrom,one bright dime,broken necklace of good gold you brought from Kuwait,the strangely tailored shirtleft by a former lover… If you were to leave me,if I were to foldonly my own clothes, the convexes and concavesof my blouses, panties, stockings, brasturned upon themselves, a mountain of unsorted washcould not fillthe empty side of the bed. Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 “Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,As brilliant and as brightAs when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,Lost in a soft amazeI gaze, I gaze” - John Keats. Letters of John Keats 1 Quote Link to comment
samsonph Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 A Clear Midnight - Poem by Walt WhitmanTHIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thoulovest best.Night, sleep, death and the stars. Quote Link to comment
Olive&Dust Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Fear No More Fear no more the heat o' the sun; Nor the furious winter's rages, Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney sweepers come to dust. Fear no more the frown of the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke: Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. Fear no more the lightning-flash, Nor the all-dread thunder-stone; Fear not slander, censure rash; Thou hast finished joy and moan; All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. No exorciser harm thee! Nor no witchcraft charm thee! Ghost unlaid forbear thee! Nothing ill come near thee! Quiet consummation have; And renowned be thy grave! - William Shakespeare Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 "Four seasons fill the measure of the year;There are four seasons in the mind of Man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clearTakes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriouslySpring's honeyed cud of youthful thought he lovesTo ruminate, and by such dreaming highIs nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wingsHe furleth close; contented so to lookOn mists in idleness -to let fair thingsPass by unheeded as a threshold brook: - He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,Or else he would forgo his mortal nature." -John Keats 1 Quote Link to comment
Lord Superb Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace When Love with unconfinèd wingsHovers within my Gates,And my divine Althea bringsTo whisper at the Grates;When I lie tangled in her hair,And fettered to her eye,The Gods that wanton in the Air,Know no such Liberty. When flowing Cups run swiftly roundWith no allaying Thames,Our careless heads with Roses bound,Our hearts with Loyal Flames;When thirsty grief in Wine we steep,When Healths and draughts go free,Fishes that tipple in the DeepKnow no such Liberty. When (like committed linnets) IWith shriller throat shall singThe sweetness, Mercy, Majesty,And glories of my King;When I shall voice aloud how goodHe is, how Great should be,Enlarged Winds, that curl the Flood,Know no such Liberty. Stone Walls do not a Prison make,Nor Iron bars a Cage;Minds innocent and quiet takeThat for an Hermitage.If I have freedom in my Love,And in my soul am free,Angels alone that soar above,Enjoy such Liberty. 1 Quote Link to comment
Lord Superb Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) On Love, On Grief by Walter Savage Landor On love, on grief, on every human thing,Time sprinkles Lethe's water with his wing. Wow. Game over. Just like that, using only two lines, the poet managed to create a lovely epigram worthy of being inscribed on stone. Edited June 20, 2017 by Lord Superb 1 Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 An excerpt from John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" "Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. " 1 Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 "I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into nothingness.I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me. Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad…" John Keats 1 Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 (edited) "Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find;Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic;That often must have seen a poet frantic." ― Bright Star: John Keats Edited June 14, 2018 by Unwritten 1 Quote Link to comment
FleurDeLune Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Bards of Passion and of Mirth Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double lived in regions new? Yes, and those of heaven commune With the spheres of sun and moon; With the noise of fountains wound'rous, And the parle of voices thund'rous; With the whisper of heaven's trees And one another, in soft ease. Seated on Elysian lawns Brows'd by none but Dian's fawns; Underneath large blue-bells tented, Where the daisies are rose-scented, And the rose herself has got Perfume which on earth is not; Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth; Philosophic numbers smooth; Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries. Thus ye live on high, and then On the earth ye live again; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us, here, the way to find you, Where your other souls are joying, Never slumber'd, never cloying. Here, your earth-born souls still speak To mortals, of their little week; Of their sorrows and delights; Of their passions and their spites; Of their glory and their shame; What doth strengthen and what maim. Thus ye teach us, every day, Wisdom, though fled far away. Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Ye have souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new! - John Keats Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 ON A DREAMBy John Keats As Hermes once took to his feathers light, When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon’d and slept, So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright So play’d, so charm’d, so conquer’d, so bereft The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes; And seeing it asleep, so fled away, Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies, Nor unto Tempe where Jove griev’d that day; But to that second circle of sad Hell, Where in the gust, the whirlwind, and the flawOf rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell Their sorrows—pale were the sweet lips I saw, Pale were the lips I kiss’d, and fair the form I floated with, about that melancholy storm. 1 Quote Link to comment
FleurDeLune Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Mid hush'd, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed, Blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian, They lay calm-breathing, on the bedded grass; Their arms embraced, and their pinions too; Their lips touch'd not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love: The winged boy I knew; But who wast thou, O happy, happy dove? His Psyche true! Ode to Pysche by John Keats Quote Link to comment
Unwritten Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 An excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn"by John Keats Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness!Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shapeOf deities or mortals, or of both,In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?What men or gods are these? what maidens loath?What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leaveThy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair! 1 Quote Link to comment
dungeonbaby Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 Don't you just love an accessible poem, inspired by tawdry lines You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew on the morning grass and the burning wheel of the sun. You are the white apron of the baker, and the marsh birds suddenly in flight. However, you are not the wind in the orchard, the plums on the counter, or the house of cards. And you are certainly not the pine-scented air. There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air. It is possible that you are the fish under the bridge, maybe even the pigeon on the general's head, but you are not even close to being the field of cornflowers at dusk. And a quick look in the mirror will show that you are neither the boots in the corner nor the boat asleep in its boathouse. It might interest you to know, speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world, that I am the sound of rain on the roof. I also happen to be the shooting star, the evening paper blowing down an alley and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table. I am also the moon in the trees and the blind woman's tea cup. But don't worry, I'm not the bread and the knife. You are still the bread and the knife. You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and--somehow--the wine. Billy Collins 1 Quote Link to comment
Aqualung Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Desiderata, Max Ehrmann Quote Link to comment
zolber Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, all time's best poem, according to a UK poll. Quote Link to comment
PedroPaterno Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) medyo haunting and moving at the same time yung The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 'til now di nagstick siya sakin. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry Foundation (link just in case may di pa nakakabasa, pero for sure nabasa nyo na yan since kadalasan sa highschool or college lit. pinapabasa siya) Edited February 18, 2022 by PedroPaterno typo Quote Link to comment
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