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CityCat |
Posted - Aug 19 2005 : 8:55:57 PM I decided to dust off some of my poetry books and read my favourite poems, and I thought it would be nice to share some with you and have everyone post their favourites. Here's one to start things off:
Stefan by P.K. Page
Stefan aged eleven looked at the baby and said When he thinks it must be pure thought because he hasn't any words yet and we proud parents admiring friends who had looked at the baby
looked at the baby again
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and reading your favourite poems!
Cat |
6 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Aug 21 2005 : 1:19:28 PM Dusting and mopping can wait til tomorrow, for babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow. So dust take a vacation, and cobwebs go to sleep. I am rocking my baby and babies don't keep."
don't know who wrote it but I want to get it up on my wall in some form or another.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
CityCat |
Posted - Aug 21 2005 : 1:13:36 PM Oh, I loved the Ogden Nash poem!
Here is another poem I love:
The Cinnamon Peeler
If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow.
Your breasts and shoulders would reek you could never walk through markets without the profession of my fingers floating over you. The blind would stumble certain of whom they approached though you might bathe under the rain gutters, monsoon.
Here on the upper thigh at this smooth pasture neighbour to your hair or the crease that cuts your back. This ankle. You will be known among strangers as the cinnamon peeler's wife.
I could hardly glance at you before marriage never touch you - your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers. I buried my hands in saffron, disguised them over smoking tar, helped the honey gatherers...
When we swam once I touched you in the water and our bodies remained free, you could hold me and be blind of smell. You climbed the bank and said
this is how you touch other women the grass cutter's wife, the lime burner's daughter. And you searched your arms for the missing perfume
and knew
what good is it to be the lime burner's daughter left with no trace as if not spoken to in the act of love as if wounded without the pleasure of a scar.
You touched your belly to my hands in the dry air and said I am the cinnamon peeler's wife. Smell me.
-- Michael Ondaatje |
Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 11:15:23 AM But this is truly my favorite..
" He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in " Edwin Markham
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Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 11:02:00 AM I'll continue in that vein...
"My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus, I can't tell a stringbean from a soybean, Or even a girl bean from a boy bean" *** Ogden Nash |
quiltedess |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 10:10:24 AM I love Robert Frost and this is one of my favorites:
THE OBJECTION to BEING STEPPED ON
At the end of the row I stepped on the toe Of an unemployed hoe. It rose in offense And struck me a blow In the seat of my sense. It wasn't to blame But I called it a name. And I must say it dealt Me a blow that I felt Like malice prepense. You may call me a fool But was there a rule The weapon should be Turned into a tool? And what do we see? The first tool I step on Turned into a weapon.
Robert Frost
Nancy |
mollymae |
Posted - Aug 19 2005 : 10:39:27 PM My favorite poem is by Emily Dickinson:
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain, If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again... I shall not live in vain.
Cead Mile Failte, Molly
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."~Rumi
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