What Poetry Moved You?

[Guest nick fury]

The arrows turn, the swords repel, may nothing pierce this mortal shell.

[Guest nick fury]

A whim, a thought and more is sought. Awake my mind, thy will be wrought.

[Guest nick fury]

Sheath this feet in the driving gale, make swift these legs or land I sail.

[Macdknife]

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by ee cummings

 

 

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

 

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

 

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

 

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

 

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

[Leyna]

I have this heart and

it is noisy and a little clumsy

and it can no longer speak

your name beyond the first letter,

sounding like a hum, sounding like

an admission,

sounding like the electricity

in the fence that I wish would keep me

from missing you.

 

113 by Cassandra

[Danielle]

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Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by ee cummings

 

 

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

 

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

 

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

 

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

 

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

 

I have searched this for years. Thank you for posting. And as I repeatedly read this poem, my world is enveloped with Beauty and the Beast's The First Time I Loved Forever. Heaven.

Edited February 19, 2012 by Danielle

[Leyna]

I love to touch your tattoos in complete

darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of

where they are, know by heart the neat

lines of lightning pulsing just above

your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue

swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent

twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you

to me, taking you until we’re spent

and quiet on the sheets, I love to kiss

the pictures in your skin. They’ll last until

you’re seared to ashes; whatever persists

or turns to pain between us, they will still

be there. Such permanence is terrifying.

So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying.

 

~ Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You

Edited February 21, 2012 by Leyna

[aifor14]

Arithmetic on the Frontier by Rudyard Kipling, I just love the metre

[Leyna]

Tea For Two- A Tragedy

 

It wasn't until after

I poured the second cup

that I realized

I was alone.

[Julianda]

memories still linger in my mind

that tortures every inch of my soul

someone who is not worth of my time

should perish from the shadow of my soul

au revoir my friend

-julianda-

Edited February 27, 2012 by Julianda

[Gambler_m]

EE Cummings: somewhere i have never travelled, accompanied by the music..beauty and the beast - tv series....

 

it never fails to impress the ladies

 

complete poem 5 post above me

[SUICIDAL333]

Footprints in the Sand

[jsa2009]

my all-time favorite:

 

-The Road Not Taken-

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth...

 

...I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

 

- robert frost

[Spoiled Biatch]

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

 

 

Edited May 11, 2012 by Spoiled Biatch

[dungeonbaby]

"if little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you little by little."

- from the poem above. every time i hear the word 'impalpable' i think of this poem and, without wanting to, Madonna reading it.

Edited May 13, 2012 by dungeonbaby