What Poetry Moved You?

[FF]

    

The song unsung

The wish unfulfilled

For every choice made right or wrong

A thousand alternatives denied

We shall always wonder in the quiet of our lives

Of steps untaken , of dreams left unpursued

Forever haunted by their eternal loss

                                                                                                                       

 

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by FF

[FF]

39 minutes ago, handsomebob said:

"see I done been lied to, backstabbed, and heartbroken

I wanted to cry but I was too afraid to open

Prayin' one day I'd find a piece of mind by the ocean

I spent all my time committing crimes to get closer"

- ROD WAVE (heart on ice) 2019

A mirror into thine soul

Words so few

Encompassing  the litany that is life

[FF]

“A Poppy Blooms” by Katsushika Hokusai

I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, and then

A poppy blooms.

[handsomebob]

“ stabbed in my back so much got residency at the trauma unit “

when you're a trusting person and you take people at face value, this happens a lot...specially in my younger years!

[handsomebob]

“Don’t get me wrong, get me right. You will never get me twice”

[tonyedward]

invictus

[macbolan00]

My two favorites in college:

BY A. E. HOUSMAN

When I was one-and-twenty

       I heard a wise man say,

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas

       But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies

       But keep your fancy free.”

But I was one-and-twenty,

       No use to talk to me.

 

When I was one-and-twenty

       I heard him say again,

“The heart out of the bosom

       Was never given in vain;

’Tis paid with sighs a plenty

       And sold for endless rue.”

And I am two-and-twenty,

       And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

 

BY ADRIAN HENRI

Tonight at noon 
Supermarkets will advertise 3d EXTRA on everything 
Tonight at noon 
Children from happy families will be sent to live in a home 
Elephants will tell each other human jokes 
America will declare peace on Russia 
World War I generals will sell poppies in the streets on November 11th 
The first daffodils of autumn will appear 
When the leaves fall upwards to the trees 

Tonight at noon 
Pigeons will hunt cats through city backyards 
Hitler will tell us to fight on the beaches and on the landing fields 
A tunnel full of water will be built under Liverpool 
Pigs will be sighted flying in formation over Woolton and Nelson will 
not only get his eye back but his arm as well 
White Americans will demonstrate for equal rights in front of the Black House 
and the Monster has just created Dr Frankenstein 

Girls in bikinis are moonbathing 
Folksongs are being sung by real folk 
Artgalleries are closed to people over 21 
Poets get their poems in the Top 20 
Politicians are elected to insane asylums 
There's jobs for everyone and nobody wants them 
In back alleys everywhere teenage lovers are kissing in broad daylight 

In forgotten graveyards everywhere the dead will quietly 
bury the living 
And You will tell me you love me 
Tonight at noon

 

Edited May 24, 2022 by macbolan00

[courtesanhunter]

Loveless. it's a book of poetry from the fictional world of Final Fantasy VII.

[handsomebob]

"A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them."

[Gerald Bourne]

"A vision" by Oscar Wilde

[anjing05]

If you forget me by Pablo Neruda

[Gerald Bourne]

[Dealdealers]

tree by joyce kilmer

[silverboy123]

Nobody move there’s blood on the floor! And I can’t find my heart. Where did it go? Did I leave in the cold? So please give it back coz it’s not yours to take. It must have fell when I lost my mind. Deep in the cut, drowning in its pain. Somebody help because I can’t find my way. Nobody move, nobody move!

Somebody tell me how I’m supposed to feel? When I am sitting here knowing this ain't real. Why in the world would I give my heart to you? Just to see you throw it in the trash. I’ve been traveling so long, I dont think I can hold on. Where were you when I needed you the most? Now I’m sitting here with a black hole in my chest. A heartless, broken mess….
-Thundercat

[SDMNXIX]

A NEW SHEET
He came to my desk with a quivering lip, the lesson was done.
“Have you a new sheet for me, dear teacher?
I’ve spoiled this one.”
I took his sheet, all soiled and blotted,
and gave him a new one all unspotted.
And into his tired heart I cried,
“Do better now, my child.”

 

A NEW DAY
I went to the throne with a trembling heart;
the day was done.
“Have you a new day for me, dear Master?
I’ve spoiled this one.”
He took my day, all soiled and blotted,
and gave me a new one all unspotted.
And into my tired heart he cried,
“Do better now, my child.”