When is the last time you read a poem you liked?

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Answer 1

I reread (after many years) Nightmare Number Three by Stephen Vincent Benet just yesterday.

Answer 2

The following poem was read at my Aunt's funeral and I loved it so much that I posted it on my web site.


TO REMEMBER ME: I will live forever

by Robert N. Test


The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital; busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to
function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped.

When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my deathbed. Let it be called the bed of life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives.

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.

Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.

Give my kidneys to the one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week.

Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

Explore every corner of my brain.

Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain agianst her window.

Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weakness and all prejudice against my fellow man.

Give my sins to the devil.

Give my soul to God.

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.

Answer 3

It has been so long I read a poem, but one poem I liked was a peom about frogs, by Louise Simpson, another good poet was Lillian Moore

Answer 4

the last time i read my favorite poem " La Belle Dame sans Merci" was last semester in 2006. this poem is really romantic yet tragic. new to me yet i find it very classical; and its metaphors, similes, & personifications came to life in my imagination. you should really try it out sometimes or look up the poem online.

Answer 5

About 30 years ago.
It's called First Sight by Philip Larkin.

Answer 6

A long time ago. It summed up my state of being to a T.

"Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci
["My heart is smitten and withered like grass" - Psalm 102:5]

WINTERTIME nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.

Flower-petals flee;
But, since it once hath been,
No more that severing scene
Can harrow me.

Birds faint in dread:
I shall not lose old strength
In the lone frost's black length:
Strength long since fled!

Leaves freeze to dun;
But friends can not turn cold
This season as of old
For him with none.

Tempests may scath;
But love can not make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.

Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past doubtings all,
Waits in unhope.

Thomas Hardy

Answer 7

July 1994! A girls poem about a bank director! Do not laugh, it was great!

Answer 8

When I typed some this afternoon. It was called Time. Here it is.
A young girl wanders through the grass,
Waiting for the time to pass,
As time goes by, she is a woman,
Found again by her soul's true call.

Answer 9

About 6-7 months ago, it was about a poor man who had nothing and yet he was walking down the street singing and dancing

Answer 10

a read a poem per week because is help me improve me my vocabulary