fav poet/poem?

Discussion in 'Poetry' started by madbeast, Jan 14, 2005.

  1. madbeast

    madbeast Member

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    whats ur fav poet/fav poem? and not ur own! lol i mean famous...
     
  2. Spyder

    Spyder La dah de dah

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    Ted Hughes...the Tender Place
     
  3. ripple23

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    the great spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is my all time favorite writer. read what he wrote and he will be yours too.
     
  4. kjhippielove88

    kjhippielove88 color + rhyme

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    a peck of gold by robert frost
     
  5. BlackBillBlake

    BlackBillBlake resigned HipForums Supporter

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    William Blake.
     
  6. gdhmomchild

    gdhmomchild Duct tape abuser

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    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.
     
  7. Duncan

    Duncan Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
     
  8. littleskinny

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    Ted Hughes - Crow - From the Life & Songs of the Crow
     
  9. TheMistress

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    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!!
     
  10. Mui

    Mui Senior Member

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    my fav poet is saul williams
     
  11. riverrunsthru

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    kind of cliche, but my favorite poem (and poet) is song of myself by walt whitman. :)
     
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