Favorite Poems

[kenaij]

So, lately I have been thinking a lot. Well. I always think a lot, but lately even more so. My thoughts brought me to the songs and conversations I wanted to have around if I die one day. And I came back to my favorite poem. I`m not really that much into poetry honestly. But the poem below is my favorite one I have ever come across. So I was curious what everyone else's favorite poems are. Maybe any of us will come across something we did not know before, and we really like it.
Mine is:
"The Road Not Taken" (by Robert Frost)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Let me see yours.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Where go the boats
Robert Lewis Stevenson

Dark brown is the river.
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,
Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating—
Where will all come home?

On goes the river
And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
Away down the hill.

Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.

 

[Trophonius]

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –


I love Emily Dickinson so much. She's perfect. A goddess. The absolute pinnacle of literary talent. No one wrote a poem like her. Nobody ever will.

 

[TouhouFan28]

So, lately I have been thinking a lot. Well. I always think a lot, but lately even more so. My thoughts brought me to the songs and conversations I wanted to have around if I die one day. And I came back to my favorite poem. I`m not really that much into poetry honestly. But the poem below is my favorite one I have ever come across. So I was curious what everyone else's favorite poems are. Maybe any of us will come across something we did not know before, and we really like it.
Mine is:
"The Road Not Taken" (by Robert Frost)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Let me see yours.

My favorite poem is something my friend told me.

Little thing:
I cry, weep and sigh.
Yet the effect is benign
Babies do it all the time
And for them,
people care when they whine!