Poetry from all over the world

[doppelgaenger]

It's a kind of magic,magic,MAGIC turuuum...
Look at the baby in my avatar - it's me laughing hahahahaha
I love this photo

Good job. I'm glad it annoyed you enough that you took the effort to delete it.

[Gribble]

You can keep your foofy poetry to yourselves.

I read epic poems. A dead leaf fluttering in a breeze isn't moving. Clever Odysseus blinding the Cyclops or Beowulf giving his life to slay the dragon--that's moving.

[Petit Papillon]

Good job, you little shit. I'm glad it annoyed you enough that you took the effort to delete it.

Buhahaha I see that something else annoyed you Awwwwwwwww

[August]

Poetry is the most romantic way to express love all people will definitely fall in love, especially if you want your ex to come back.

[Gribble]

Nah. Poetry is a lot of hot air blown into a girl's ear so she'll be blowing some place else for you.

Action, at least for someone of even passing intelligence, is what really constitutes romance. Who but a shallow moron gives a damn about spoken sweet nothings. It's the guy who is there for you when you need him that is romantic. Y'know, that guy you ladies ignore entirely until someone sees him for what he is, snatches him up, and leaves you to your continuing string of asshole "bad boys"

[Petit Papillon]

AMEN Gribble.

It's not a sweet word that counts Everybody can say everything, but not everybody can be everything

[doppelgaenger]

Buhahaha I see that something else annoyed you Awwwwwwwww

You mean the infraction I now have because you're a little whiny baby? Your avatar does wonders for your personality.

[Sonrisa]

Nah. Poetry is a lot of hot air blown into a girl's ear so she'll be blowing some place else for you.

i hope you don't mean all POETRY. there's a whole other world that is meant to express one's feelings that has nothing to do with girls.

[Sonrisa]

You, who was born for poetry’s creation,
Do not repeat the sayings of the ancients.
Though, maybe, our Poetry, itself,
Is just a single beautiful citation.

ANNA AKHMATOVA

[Petit Papillon]

You mean the infraction I now have because you're a little whiny baby? Your avatar does wonders for your personality.

What? You called me a little shit. If I were a mod, I would infract you by myself

[vashti]

Here's a small portion of a poem I like:

we must not look at goblin men,
we must not buy their fruits;
who knows upon what soil they fed
their hungry, thirsty roots?

--Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

[doppelgaenger]

What? You called me a little shit. If I were a mod, I would infract you by myself

That's pathetic.

Here's a small portion of a poem I like:

we must not look at goblin men,
we must not buy their fruits;
who knows upon what soil they fed
their hungry, thirsty roots?

--Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

That's misandry.

[vashti]

That's misandry.

no it's not. it reflects Victorian morals.

I didn't even post the naughty part.

[Gribble]

i hope you don't mean all POETRY. there's a whole other world that is meant to express one's feelings that has nothing to do with girls.

Not all of it. Just most of it. Poetry is bunk. And I say this as someone with a degree in English Lit. I hate it. Give me prose, give me epics, give me Shakesepeare. Keep the fluttery emotional crap where it belongs, the journals of depressed high schoolers.

[doppelgaenger]

I am surprised you didn't say Chaucer. Or Gower. You basically mentioned all the shit I had to read in high school. Beowulf isn't any good unless you read it in Anglo-Saxon (true value comes in the cleverness of meter and rhyme) And the best works of Shakespeare are far underrated.