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A noiseless, patient spider, I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; Ever unreeling them--ever tirelessly speeding them. And you, O my Soul, where you...
Seemed to garner some interest, so I thought we might enjoy discussing it here. I first heard about this poem while listening to Iron Maiden's song by the same name.
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping...
by Charles Baudelaire Nature is a temple where the living columns Sometimes release confusing speech; Man walks through this forest of symbols Which observe him with familial gazes. As the long echoes that are heard from afar In a shadowy and profound unity Vast as the night and as...
River In Spate (Louis MacNeice) The river falls and over the walls the coffins of cold funerals slide deep and sleep there in the close tomb of the pool, and yellow waters lave the grave and pebbles pave its mortuary and the river horses vault and plunge with their assault and battery, and...
Nominate yourself to be voted on to choose a poem! The poem can be anything you can find online and post here legally. No epic poems please - not everyone will have time to read them. On Friday I'll close the thread and start a poll to vote on who will choose the poem. The poll will end on...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my...
THE STRANGEST CREATURE ON EARTH You're like a scorpion, my brother, you're in a cowardly darkness like a scorpion. You're like a sparrow, my brother, you're in a sparrow's flutter. You're like a mussel, my brother, closed as a mussel, tranquil. And you're dreadful as the mouth of an...
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by Robert Creeley Each way the turn twists, to be apprehended: now she is there, now she is not, goes, but did she, having gone, went before
Sarah Kirsch In an airplane I'm supposed to (in a blunderbuss, when it climbs one has to buckle up) travel to a stranger country the sky long through diverse clouds I see where it is jointed sit behind the wing it pulls its feet in stows them flaps flap, so it will be I hope that no...
Poem of the week, week two. Winifred desired this poem for this week and since I haven't seen her around today, I'll post it for her.
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