The Mermaid by Pablo Neruda--except for the unhappy ending, lol!
Also love
http://thebeach.com.au/blog/2005/10/o-sweet-spontaneous/

AngELL, I love, love, love Neruda. My "theme poem" of the moment is "If You Forget Me..." Sigh.

I am not vastly familiar with the works of e.e. cummings but I do like what I have read from him so far. :)

Thanks! I'll check it out...I love it!

AngELL, if you don't have it yet, I greatly recommend you get this:

The Postman (Il Postino): Music From The Miramax Motion Picture Soundtrack

:D

ok...hahaha..not much on soundtracks but I think I saw the movie back in the dae

^ Oh. But this soundtrack includes readings of Neruda's poems. You may or may not like, though, that the readers are celebrities. I think some of them did great and some didn't, but I love the poems, so all in all, I like it! ;D

ETA: I didn't get to see the movie, but I read the book. :)

Yuh, sounds interesting...:))

"Self in 1958" By: Anne Sexton

"Daddy" By: Sylvia Plath

"We Real Cool" By: Gwendolyn Brooks

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" By: John Keats

"On the Pulse of the Morning" By: Dr. Maya Angelou

"Dream Deferred" By: Langston Hughs

"How Do I Love Thee?" By: Elizabeth Browning

"I Carry Your Heart with Me" By: E.E. Cummings

Those are a few of my favorites. I love all different types of poetry and the unique voices people bring to them.

OMG! funny, those are some of my favorites too, we are on the same wave length, lol
Always loved Langston Hughes especially...

I fell in love with this poem when I heard it in Four Weddings and a Funeral. It is a beautiful expression of the depths of grief.

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

-- W.H. Auden

That is awesome. Huges is a brilliant poet who eloquently integrates powerful social and personal messages. "Dream Deferred" is one of my favorite poems from him because it is such an honest way of showing how so many of our hopes for a better world are still left unfulfilled. I connect with it because I feel that same sense of urgency to try to affect positive change in my environment, and a lot of his poetry is about overcoming obstacles we face in life....through many forms.

That's a beautifully written poem. Sometimes writing tributes or lamentations to those who have passed is good for the heart. Edgar Allan Poe is exceptional in dealing with sad and or difficult subjects in his verse too.

One of my favorite poets is Rumi who lived in Persia in the 12th century. His poems and writings dealt with love and spirituality and crossed all ethnic/religious and social boundaries. He is one of the most widely read poets in the Middle East and Asia.


I swear, since seeing your face,

the whole world is fraud and fantasy

The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf

or blossom.

The distracted birds can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.

A house of love with no limits,

a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,

a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.

beautiful....I will go to the library to see if I can find any of his writings.

"Auguries Of Innocence" by William Blake
"When We Two Parted" by Lord Byron
"The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allen Poe
"A Sunset of The City" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman

Here are some other poets and their literature I enjoy:

"Facing It" By: Yusef Komunyakaa

"After Making Love" By: Stephen Dunn

"Green Chile" By: Jimmy Santiago Baca

"Welcome to Hiroshima" By: Mary Jo Salter

"Disabled" By: Wilfred Owen

"If We Must Die" By: Claude McKay

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" By: T.S. Eliot

"I Hear America Singing" By: Walt Whitman

"Song" By: Katherine Philips