A favourite poem?

[Odette Chace]

I actually like to write poetry myself. But I do have a few favorite poems, two of which is "Two Roads Diverged" by Robert Frost and "The Rose That Grew from a Crack in the Concrete." by Tupac (which I managed to memorize.)

That is quite the combination! I hadn't read Tupac's poem before, but I looked it up and it is quite sweet.

I quite like "The Heart" by Stephen Crane:
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.

I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."

[Julez]

I love "Two Roads Diverged" too.

I actually like to write poetry myself. But I do have a few favorite poems, two of which is "Two Roads Diverged" by Robert Frost and "The Rose That Grew from a Crack in the Concrete." by Tupac (which I managed to memorize.)

[Tavaiel26]

“May we raise children who love the unloved things,” by Nicolette Sowder

May we raise children
who love the unloved
things – the dandelion, the
worms and spiderlings.
Children who sense
the rose needs the thorn

& run into rainswept days
the same way they
turn towards sun…

And when they’re grown &
someone has to speak for those
who have no voice

may they draw upon that
wilder bond, those days of
tending tender things

and be the ones.

[Zainabreadsnow]

One of my favorite poems ever is Portrait of a Lover as an Errand Being Run by Ollie ONiel

[Bigwig1973]

I memorize poems so when I was out jogging, I had something productive to do. For whatever reason, I generally stuck with Frost poems, but, I took a short author course on William Butler Yeats and had to memorize a poem. The one I picked is "The Fascination of What's Difficult":

The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins
And rent spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart
There's something ails my colt that must,
As if it had not holy blood,
Nor on Olympus leapt from cloud to cloud
Shiver in the traces
Strain, sweat, and jolt
As though it dragged road metal
My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways
On the days war with every knave and dolt
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.

I've read other versions, that is just the one I memorized. The professor asked why we picked the poem we picked. I gave a standard answer but really, I knew a guy once who said "Every uneducated dolt knows that" and my dad had a Yamaha or Kawasaki and looked like the Shriner version of Tommy Lee from the band Motley Crue. As though he dragged heavy metal music! Oh crap! Paranoia...

[bush reads]

Aubade with Burning City by Ocean Vuong is my current favorite.

[Georgephilips]

I have so many favourite poems, poems I've learnt by heart, poems that I found at a certain point in my life, poems that speak to me about those quiet things that live between souls. I found a new favourite today, its called 'invitation to love' and it seems so soft and gentle, so full of hope.

Invitation to Love
BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Come when the nights are bright with stars
Or come when the moon is mellow;
Come when the sun his golden bars
Drops on the hay-field yellow.
Come in the twilight soft and gray,
Come in the night or come in the day,
Come, O love, whene’er you may,
And you are welcome, welcome.

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it to rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

Come when my heart is full of grief
Or when my heart is merry;
Come with the falling of the leaf
Or with the redd’ning cherry.
Come when the year’s first blossom blows,
Come when the summer gleams and glows,
Come with the winter’s drifting snows,
And you are welcome, welcome.


Do you have any favourite poems?

Love this piece!

[Eriny Youssef]

Charles Bukowski's Bluebird and Genius of the Crowd.