How are you? Doing ok? So this post is going to be about some of my favorite poetry, books, and quotes. Hope you enjoy it! Links for things will be underneath each item.
Poetry:
I highly enjoy reading poetry which I know many people find a little tedious because they always think of people like Longfellow, Blake, Keats etc but poetry is so much more than those aforementioned great poets. A good rap (no sit down Lil Wheezy not singing the same crap over and over) can be a poem along with a simple haiku or even words that don't rhyme all the time (that was on purpose by the way).
So here are a few to get you into new and interesting poetry and even one by me (not very good but poems are just as good for your soul as hot tea is).
The Tyger by William Blake
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172943
The link for you. This poem was one of the first ones that I memorized and it is truly loquacious. Some of the best lines I have ever read. "What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp!" is one of my favorite stanzas (a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.). Read it!
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433
If you can listen to the audio then do it she reads it sublimely. Her voice is great also her explanation of why she wrote it which was basically because she saw some people playing pool...no other hidden meanings at all, crazy I know.
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mother-to-son/
A good poem about the hard knocks of life.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171941
A good story poem. A little odd but full of great imagery.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15717
This poem is one of my favorites. It is about making decisions in life.
The People- Common
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7B2VgRShew
Common is yes a rapper but he does not sing about women and exploiting them but about what is happening in the world around him and the common life. He flows really well.
Same Love by Macklemore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0
This is a really great music video along with the fact that it is more than a song. It is a message about how people feel. That to me is a poem.
Lastly here is mine that I wrote in a difficult time in my life. Hope you enjoyed this list.
The Purpose of Death by Claire
Cry, wail, lament, and mourn
The love you shared, and the fact
You will never see your
Lover,
Soul-mate,
Dearest friend again.
But rejoice, celebrate, and be joyous,
That their soul has left
The weak, sick, form they once inhabited.
They suffered and were in pain.
They cried out to be put out of their miseries
But held a strong face.
They watched the sympathetic faces of the blurring crowd;
But one stood out among the rest.
The true visage of their love
And the sorrow that clouded their eyes.
That sorrowful love made the pain
Better and
Worse.
In those last moments of life they want
That person beside them,
That last look,
That last "I love you,"
And that last image in their eyes,
Burned into their mind is
You.
To them that is the best. most wonderful sight
In the world.
In that moment they know
They have not died in vain.
While you cry after they pass,
They rejoice with the knowledge of seeing
You, one last time and that you are living on.
So be sad for today,
But remember they left you to live
And be happy.
So cry for today,
BUT
Awaken tomorrow with a new purpose,
The purpose of living for your love.
The purpose of Death.
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