the great spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is my all time favorite writer. read what he wrote and he will be yours too.
Do you realize there has already been two other threads about whats your favorite poetry this month? One just dropped off the front page and one is about 5-five pages back.
This poem is ONE of may favorites, its by E.J.Pratt. I like it because when you read it you actually get the sense of a shark swimming through the water. It's really cool. "The Shark" He seemed to know the harbour, So leisurely he swam; His fin, Like a piece of sheet-iron, Three-cornered, And with knife-edge, Stirred not a bubble As it moved With its base-line on the water. His body was tubular And tapered And smoke-blue, And as he passed the wharf He turned, And snapped at a flat-fish That was dead and floating. And I saw the flash of a white throat, And a double row of white teeth, And eyes of metallic grey, Hard and narrow and slit. Then out of the harbour, With that three-cornered fin Shearing without a bubble the water Lithely, Leisurely, He swam- That strange fish, Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue, Part vulture, part wolf, Part neither- for his blood was cold. Hope you enjoyed!!
allen ginsberg never fails to make me cry. Sunflower Sutra http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/poems/sunflower.txt
