what is your favorite peom?

Answer 1

The Waking by Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go

Answer 2

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the poet Walter Salvage Landau (I think I got the spelling right) said a few profound words in a single stanza, that, for me, summed it all up...........I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and next to nature, art. I warmed both hands before the fires of life. The fire dies. I am ready to depart".

Another one... equally brief but profound, (I have a mental block now about the author) is called "Lament of a fallen fiddler on a cold night"........
(Evidently, once a professional violinist playing before hundreds in fine auditoriums, somehow he had fallen into destitution and reduced to playing in the streets for coins from passersby}

"Once in finesse of fiddles, found I ecstacy, and the clash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I that warmth's the very stuff of poesy. Oh, God, make small the old star-eaten blanket of the sky, that I may wrap it round me, and in comfort lie"

Answer 3

Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Answer 4

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
Poignant & so true - we cannot know what would have happened had we made a different decision.

or

"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" written by Robert J. Burdette, but adapted & modified to the A. A. program.
A road map for life.

Answer 5

My favorite poem is written by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan - Thukra Do Ya Pyar Karo.
It is very beautiful poem in which the poetess is trying to convey her love feeling in a very submissive manner. This poem has a touch of Sufism in it.This is very beautiful poem if one will understand it.

Answer 6

not my favorite but in the top 10 and i think it should be shared
Carnation milk the best in the land
here i sit with a can in my hand
no t i t s to pull
no hay to pitch
just poke a hole
in the son- of- a- b i t c h

author unknown, it was in my college lit class, i still lol when i read it. hope you enjoy.

Answer 7

There you stand, meek and shy,
While others seem to pass you by,
Your treated like your something odd,
For being born, you curse, your god,
For loneliness can fill your soul,
And turn a warm heart, bitter cold.
The love inside, turns to hate,
for lack of happiness, that came to late
There's nothing like a real Friend,
To put a broken heart to mend,
A friendship a love you, wish to give,
For this provides the will to live.

S.W.cu. 1969

Answer 8

One bright day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.

A deaf policeman heard this noise.
Came and shot the two dead boys.
If you do not believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it too!

Answer 9

My fav poem that i didn't write would be
Daddy's Day

i love all the poems i did write though!

Answer 10

my frendz shez a real gooooooood poet