Feb 27, 2020 11:48:03 AM by John K
I made an art thread here once, and then a Jazz thread. So perhaps a poetry thread would balance all that. Here's one of my favorite poems from probably my favorite poet -- he really doesn't need an introduction, but he and I have the same initials.
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
Mar 16, 2020 08:24:37 AM Edited Apr 1, 2020 01:44:31 PM by Anthony H
I love the selections here. Lots of great ones ... thanks for getting this thread going, John.
Mar 23, 2020 05:09:02 PM by John K
Apr 8, 2020 10:50:21 AM Edited Apr 8, 2020 10:54:58 AM by John K
Here's a classic parody, and for this, I have to include the recording. One thing I didn't know, the music was written by Christopher Guest, so he was involved in 2 of the greatest parodies of our time, this one as well as Spinal Tap.
Apr 11, 2024 09:43:33 AM by Havva Krçiçei A
Thank you for this magical thing.
"Your desperate nerves fuse laughter with disaster
And higgledy piggledy giggle once begun
Crown a host of unassorted sorrows
You never could manage one by one.
The world that jibes your tenderness
Jails your lust.
Bewildered by the paradox of all your musts
Turning from horizon to horizon, noonday to dusk:
It may be only you can understand:
On a mild sea afternoon of blue and gold
When the sky is a mild blue of a Chinese bowl
The bones of Hart Crane, sailors and the drugstore man
Beat on the ocean's floor the same saraband."
-Carson McCullers