Poetry and stuff...

[druffine]

K, flist , I need your help.

I want to get to know some poetry and the likes but I have no idea where to start with that, I mean I don't even know the children's rhymes and such...

So please, if you have a moment, paste me your favorite poem or one you think I should know into a comment and maybe a few words about it.

Thanks very much.

Oh and finally... it's over.

Comments

[druffine.livejournal.com]

Great, just great. I love poems about the night somehow. I think I develop a liking of Robert Frost.


Here is one I found on my own search I like:

Langston Hughes - Dream Variations

To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me-
That is my dream!

To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening...
A tall, slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.

[piratepurple.livejournal.com]

I love Langston Hughes. I recommend Harlem - A Dream Deferred. He makes me want to cry alot, but that's why I love him.

[druffine.livejournal.com]

Langston Hughes - Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?


You mean this one? Yes, I love it. In German too, I love those poems you think everybody could write, just thoughts you could have too but didn't bring down to paper who make you think about the deeper meaning, the casual things you don't have time to notice so often.