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Reply #150 - November 21, 2011, 03:01 AM

That's beautiful allat.

Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
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Reply #151 - March 29, 2012, 10:06 PM

What Kind of Times Are These
BY ADRIENNE RICH

There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill
and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted
who disappeared into those shadows.

I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.

I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods
meeting the unmarked strip of light—
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.

And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you
anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these
to have you listen at all, it's necessary
to talk about trees.

So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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Reply #152 - April 02, 2012, 06:32 PM

Hart Crane: ‘Voyages II’

— And yet this great wink of eternity,
Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings,
Samite sheeted and processioned where
Her undinal vast belly moonward bends,
Laughing the wrapt inflections of our love;

Take this Sea, whose diapason knells
On scrolls of silver snowy sentences,
The sceptred terror of whose sessions rends
As her demeanors motion well or ill,
All but the pieties of lovers’ hands.

And onward, as bells off San Salvador
Salute the crocus lustres of the stars,
In these poinsettia meadows of her tides, —
Adagios of islands, O my Prodigal,
Complete the dark confessions her veins spell.

Mark how her turning shoulders wind the hours,
And hasten while her penniless rich palms
Pass superscription of bent foam and wave, —
Hasten, while they are true, — sleep, death, desire,
Close round one instant in one floating flower.

Bind us in time, O Seasons clear, and awe.
O minstrel galleons of Carib fire,
Bequeath us to no earthly shore until
Is answered in the vortex of our grave
The seal’s wide spindrift gaze toward paradise.
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Reply #153 - April 02, 2012, 06:56 PM

I've never been really interested in poetry, but this one moved me when I first read it and it still does;

"The turtle-dove sings its lament at dawn, and weeps.
My tears disturb her sleep and her tears disturb mine.
When she and I complain, we understand not each other.
But I know her grief and she knows mine."

Abul-Hasan an-Nuri.

An alternative to religion;

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Reply #154 - May 19, 2012, 05:22 PM

May I be sacrificed for you, my homeland

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for your high, high mountains,
For your flowerlike chest and pines

May I be sacrificed for you, my homeland, each region of yours is beauty,
Each of your stones are rubies, each bush of yours is medicine.
Each village of yours is a trench, and every youth of yours is sacrificing for you,
Each mountain and hill of yours is a calamity for your enemies.

May I be sacrificed for your dusty deserts and green valleys,
For your flowerlike chest and pines.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for you; I will sacrifice my head and property for you,
I will give you my body's blood in order to make you fresh and thriving.

I will murder all the enemies of your religion and prosperity,
I will gradually make you the holy necklace of Asia.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed, for your hot trenches,
For your flowerlike chest and pines.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for your Helmand, your chest,
For your mountains, Uruzgan, your Kandahar-like trenches,
For Zabul's trenches and Ghazni's honorable battlefields,
For Gurbat, Gurbat Wardak, Maidan and Lowgar.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for your great youths,
For your flowerlike chest and pines.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for you while my homeland, Kunar is alive,
Your youths from Paktika and Farah are heroes.
Your people from Nangarhar and Laghman are successful,
You have trained famous sons.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for your dry ruins,
For your flowerlike chest and pines.

May I be sacrificed, sacrificed for your Hindu Kush and Mahipar,
For your Shamshad, Shah-I Kot, Spin Ghar and Tur Ghar.
My ditch-filled country! You have trenches all over.
Your body is Maiwand, Maiwand, you are Habibi's beloved.

May I be sacrificed for your burnt wounds,
For your flower-like chest and black pines.

—Habibi

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Reply #155 - May 20, 2012, 05:41 AM

My favorite Poet, I own all his works.

Simply the best, whenever I read or hear his poems I get chills all over my body:

EDGAR ALLAN POE

The Raven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXU3RfB7308

The poem in written format:

http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html

Anabel Lee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecfVIt641n0

The poem in written format:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/annabel-lee/

A dream within a dream

the narration of the poem starts after min 01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQ5aVjxDII

The written format of the poem:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-dream-within-a-dream/

Alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZbHMmd-pIA&feature=related

The poem in written format:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-5/

Ulalume

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VesUJqm5rss

The written format:
http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blpoehalloween.htm

The Bells

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_gfTVClku4

The poem in written format:
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/575/
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Reply #156 - May 20, 2012, 04:14 PM

I like this one-which I discovered because of the Heptones song

Isn't it strange how princes and kings,
and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
and common people, like you and me,
are builders for eternity?

Each is given a list of rules;
a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.
And each must fashion, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone.

-RL Sharpe

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What apple stores are like.....

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Reply #157 - May 20, 2012, 04:35 PM

Quote from: sturmgewehr on May 20, 2012, 05:41 AM
My favorite Poet, I own all his works.

Simply the best, whenever I read or hear his poems I get chills all over my body:

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZbHMmd-pIA&feature=related

The poem in written format:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-5/

That’s actually my favourite Poe–m. Arcturus did a cover version of it too.
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Reply #158 - July 25, 2012, 11:11 AM

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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Reply #159 - July 25, 2012, 11:38 AM

Quote from: sturmgewehr on May 20, 2012, 05:41 AM

A dream within a dream

"If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
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Reply #160 - September 08, 2012, 11:52 PM

This has always been my favorite poem

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
By Emily Dickinson 1830–1886 Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
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Reply #161 - October 22, 2012, 01:39 PM

About to bombard you with sufi poetry & quotes...you were warned.

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense"

"Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being"

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

“I am smiling at myself today
There's no wish left in this heart
Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe
I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one
Except me.”

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

"In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion"

"The intellectual runs away, afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea." - Rumi
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Reply #162 - February 23, 2013, 03:42 PM

i love the traditional stuff.. but i really enjoy listening to poets like depth perception, taylor mali, mayda del valle and of course tim minchin..

here's one from the young depth perception

Quote
I DONT LOVE YOU
i dont love you
i CANT love u
as a matter of fact.. i dont WANT to love you
cuz see..
love is a word thats been watered down through time
but this time there is nutin watered down about the way i feel about u
and like so many that have been IN love, the word love has been used and abused, neglected, taken advantage of, lied to, cheated on, and sumtimes even forgotten.
so I.. i dont want to love you
cuz see, it used to be the word love could pump da breaks on a conversation and leave sum1 feelin utterly speechless, now...
its used to fill breaks in a conversation and pump reason back into why you cant leave sum1 whos makin u feel utterly.. useless...
so u see... i dont want to L-O-V-E u
but i do wana take those letters n flip den back word and spell da begining of the word EVOLve...
becuz i was us to grow into sumtin indescribable by one word..
see... i dont want to love you...
but i wana make you like my childhood best friend, so no matter how many times we hurt eachother or beat eachother up inside, ill know we can always make up again..
and i wana show you off to the world...

*a permanent connection so perfectly passionate that I CAN SIT YOU ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF A JAM-PACKED ARENA, LOOK AT YOU ONCE AND HAVE EVERYONE IN THERE KNOW YOUR MY GIRL.*

see i... i dont want to love you, but its you im tryin to find
i wana take you out on a date and say all the right things so at the end of the night, if i play my cards right, you might just invite me inside...your mind
you see im tryin to take the "I" out of I'm doin this for us becuz there is no "I" in "us" so lets just do this for us. let US breathe life back into love so we can put love back into our lives, and bring the underdog back to the front of the race.

*cuz see im tryin to redefine love as more than 'who can take the most pictures together and who can get more comments on them on myspace'*

cuz see... we... we wer made from love, and thats all that will happen in the end, so by U makin ME re-believe in love, you have help me find my reason for living again..
and i kno it sounds cliche but.. u have given me sumthin to die for.........

........so u see.. i DONT LOVE YOU..
i CANT love you
as a matter of fact i dont want to love you
cuz... this might not seem like much to most, but your the biggest thing thats happend to me since i discovered poetry..
and if thers anything a poet knows its how to recognize truth, that how i kno we wer meant to be.
so u see.. i DONT WANT TO LOVE YOU...
i NEED to..

~depth perception~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5VVGwmchH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
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Reply #163 - February 23, 2013, 04:42 PM

taylor mali

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c03YCBo3z8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
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Reply #164 - February 25, 2013, 07:21 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EieFdXy_HwM#!

he's sorry ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
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Reply #165 - March 10, 2013, 12:02 PM

via the almighty and awesome alishba

My Short Skirt - From The Vagina Monologues
By Eve Ensler

My short skirt is not an invitation
a provocation
an indication
that I want it
or give it
or that I hook.

My short skirt
is not begging for it
it does not want you
to rip it off me
or pull it down.

My short skirt
is not a legal reason
for raping me
although it has been before
it will not hold up
in the new court.

My short skirt, believe it or not
has nothing to do with you.

My short skirt
is about discovering
the power of my lower calves
about cool autumn air traveling
up my inner thighs
about allowing everything I see
or pass or feel to live inside.

My short skirt is not proof
that I am stupid
or undecided
or a malleable little girl.

My short skirt is my defiance
I will not let you make me afraid
My short skirt is not showing off
this is who I am
before you made me cover it
or tone it down.
Get used to it.

My short skirt is happiness
I can feel myself on the ground.
I am here. I am hot.

My short skirt is a liberation
flag in the women's army
I declare these streets, any streets
my vagina's country.

My short skirt
is turquoise water
with swimming colored fish
a summer festival
in the starry dark
a bird calling
a train arriving in a foreign town
my short skirt is a wild spin
a full breath
a tango dip
my short skirt is
initiation
appreciation
excitation.

But mainly my short skirt
and everything under it
is Mine.
Mine.
Mine.

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Reply #166 - March 10, 2013, 02:08 PM

Quote
My short skirt
is about discovering
the power of my lower calves
about cool autumn air traveling
up my inner thighs
about allowing everything I see
or pass or feel to live inside.

So nice *_*
*officially wants to own a short skirt for that feeling*
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Reply #167 - March 12, 2013, 02:09 PM

Quote from: nesrin on February 23, 2013, 04:42 PM
taylor mali

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c03YCBo3z8

^ I love this man. Definitely amongst my top 10 favourite slam poets.

Phil Kaye - Repetition
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Reply #168 - March 14, 2013, 07:24 PM

Can't find the other poem thread, so I'll just post this one by myself here:

Life. You silly, funny thing.
You tickle a tear out of me
As reflections of old times.
Your music spins the world
With rhythm and rhyme.

You lift, you drift,
Shake and pull apart...
...But this heart, it stays.

I've found no words.
No words. I've found...
Something beyond these forms.
She speaks to me with moments of time.

Reflections and rhymes, dances, prances
Cries and tries
...all in a mind, trapped by time.

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Reply #169 - March 14, 2013, 08:22 PM

How can we be sure of anything
the tide changes.
The wind that made the grain wave gently yesterday
blows down the trees tomorrow.
And the sea sends sailors crashing on the rocks,
as easily as it guides them safely home.
I love the sea
but it doesn’t make me less afraid of it
I love you
but I’m not always sure of what you are
and how you feel.

I’d like to crawl behind your eyes sometime
and see me the way you do
or climb through your mouth
and sit on every word that comes up through your throat.

Maybe I could be sure then
maybe I could know
as it is - I hide beneath your frowns
or worry when you laugh too loud.
Always worrying.
Always sure a storm is rising.

~ The Storm/Fourteen, Rod McKuen

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Reply #170 - June 03, 2015, 10:43 PM

Some great poems posted here. Here's another one of my favourite poems about religion by A.E Housman. I can relate to it a lot.

The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbor to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong.
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn nor to Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.
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Reply #171 - June 04, 2015, 07:42 AM

More Taylor Mali: "What do teachers make?" - sent this to a teacher friend...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yg0u1MkDI&feature=youtu.be
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Reply #172 - June 07, 2015, 06:59 PM

If famous authors sent drunken texts…

Dan Brown

William Wordsworth

Samuel Beckett

Roald Dahl

Philip Roth

Gertrude Stein

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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