[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by collie1228

I'm happy to see Ogden Nash mentioned in this thread. The only poem I know by heart is by Nash:

A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.

LOVE IT!

Concise is nice, sayeth the English scholar.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by CFrance

You are one of the bestest on here. Maybe the bestest.

Thank you, Do you know where Missouri is?

[DruannB]

I have so many favorites. I teach Romantic poetry, but this is my favorite because it reminds me of my children.

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Galway Kinnell, 1927

For I can snore like a bullhorn
or play loud music
or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman
and Fergus will only sink deeper
into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash,
but let there be that heavy breathing
or a stifled come-cry anywhere in the house
and he will wrench himself awake
and make for it on the run—as now, we lie together,
after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies,
familiar touch of the long-married,
and he appears—in his baseball pajamas, it happens,
the neck opening so small he has to screw them on—
and flops down between us and hugs us and snuggles himself to sleep,
his face gleaming with satisfaction at being this very child.

In the half darkness we look at each other
and smile
and touch arms across this little, startlingly muscled body—
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
this blessing love gives again into our arms.

[Moderator]

Topic is your favorite poet. Please do not direct your comments at other members.

[Vinny]

I will never know who my favorite poet may be;
It could be you or even me;
What I do know is that poetry stiffs my soul;
Especially since I have grown very old.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Thank you, Do you know where Missouri is?

Patty.......enjoy!

Situated in the western edge of the north-central United States, within the coordinates 38.5� N and 92.5� W, Missouri covers an area of 112,167 square miles. While Illinois borders Missouri on the east, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma share the western border of the state. Missouri is bound by Arkansas on the south, and Iowa forms the northern boundary of the state.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Patty.......enjoy!

Situated in the western edge of the north-central United States, within the coordinates 38.5� N and 92.5� W, Missouri covers an area of 112,167 square miles. While Illinois borders Missouri on the east, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma share the western border of the state. Missouri is bound by Arkansas on the south, and Iowa forms the northern boundary of the state.

Thank you, that was as clear as mud.

My favorite poem/poet is John Donne No Man is an Island.

[Barefoot]

For some inexplicable reason, I memorized this poem when I was 14.
I have no idea why, but I still like it.

Requiem

UNDER the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you 'grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

[dbussone]

Robert Frost. Poem=Fences

[mtdjed]

Recently attended a funeral and heard this which is now my favorite poem :The Dash:

The Dash - Linda Ellis

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Thank you, Do you know where Missouri is?

I think I was there once!

[jblum315]

Although my major was 19th century literature, my favorite poet is Billy Collins. He was our Poet Laureate a few years ago.His poetry is witty, wise and very accessible. Look him up.

[graciegirl]

Of all the words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, "It might have been".


I know it is hard to get here, but the destination IS worth the journey.