=>/eph 👽 eph
Do you have a favorite poem? If yes, would you share it?

1 year ago · 👍 jo, angryboyd, dreammachines, user, hedy
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=>/user 👽 user
If by Rudyard Kipling · 1 year ago

=>/eph 👽 eph
> Если жизнь тебя обманет
is my favorite Pushkin poem. I’m not sure I have a favorite poem in English, (that is, I can’t choose lol), though I do like ‘light sail star bound’ by Joel Nathaniel. · 1 year ago

=>/astroseneca 👽 astroseneca
There is also a short wonderful poem by Oliver Herford like "I Heard a Bird Sing":

I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.

"We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,”
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.

https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=569 · 1 year ago

=>/digbat 👽 digbat
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day;  Delmore Schwartz: that time is the fire in which we burn. · 1 year ago

=>/dreammachines 👽 dreammachines
I think "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson is a great poem. · 1 year ago

=>/angryboyd 👽 angryboyd
it doesn't fit in the text box, and i'd rather not cut it since it lessens the impact, but Ballad of Orange and Grape by Muriel Rukeyser, I read it in a children's poem book as a little kid and it's been my favorite since, even before I really understood the message.

link:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57158/ballad-of-orange-and-grape · 1 year ago

=>/bavarianbarbarian 👽 bavarianbarbarian
@danrl this is also very nice, we are blessed to have such great poets, lessing, schiller, goethe, droste-huelshof, heiner, fontane, herder usw... · 1 year ago

=>/danrl 👽 danrl
the fisher. beautiful use of language.

a rough translation reads (excerpt):

She spake to him, she sang to him;
Then all with him was o'er,—
Half drew she him, half sank he in,—
He sank to rise no more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fischer_(Goethe) · 1 year ago

=>/bavarianbarbarian 👽 bavarianbarbarian
for my german speaking fellow capsuleers, i'd recommend this: https://genius.com/Eisregen-was-vom-leben-ubrig-bleibt-lyrics · 1 year ago

=>/mircea 👽 mircea
@astroseneca Ah the bloody Battle at Borodino, a terrible day for many. I found the poem quite good.

One of my favorites is from Tennyson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade · 1 year ago

=>/bavarianbarbarian 👽 bavarianbarbarian
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. · 1 year ago

=>/astroseneca 👽 astroseneca
The poem of Borodino by M. Lermontov. Despite the dubious historical value, there one line just clings to another and so on until the end of the poem. I learned it easily, despite my poor memory. By the way, the poet Lermontov himself was noted for cutting out the local population in the Caucasus as part of a special unit of the Russian army. A disgusting person, but a brilliant poet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino_(poem) · 1 year ago

=>/jo 👽 jo
hmm i never like claiming absolute favs since tasted change but In The Desert by Stephen Crane [1] is a real banger.
i think that "do not stand at my grave and weep" [2] is a good contestant for my 2nd fav poem. not my favourite poem but a good one is  FLOATING DEATH SKULL ON ICE, SALT RIM [3] by someone on tumblr

1 - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46457/in-the-desert-56d2265793693
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep
3 - https://filmnoirsbian.tumblr.com/post/694253470263508992/this-is-the-poem-btw-hemmingway-eat-ur-fucking · 1 year ago