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Postby aimdog » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:54 pm

I just thought it might be fun to share our favorite poets and artists and maybe even post some of your favorite works by them.
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Postby aimdog » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:07 pm

Okay I'll go first. I guess I don't really have one favorite in general. But, one of my most favorite female writers would have to be Maya Angelou. I just find her poetry to be so wise and powerful. She writes from the heart. She, as a person, is one of the most enlightened, beautiful, aware, clever and just all around amazing human beings that I have ever laid eyes on.

This is a great one.......

America

The gold of her promise
has never been mined

Her border of justice
not clearly defined

Her crops of abundance
the fruit and the grain

Have not fed the hungry
nor eased the deep pain

Her proud declarations
are leaves on the wind

Her southern exposure
black death did befriend

Discover this country
dead centuries cry

Erect noble tablets
where none can decry

She kills her bright future
and rapes for a sou

Then entraps her children
with legends untrue"

I beg you

Discover this country.

By Maya Angelou
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Postby aimdog » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:22 pm

Anyone a Poe fan?

One of my favorites

Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were-I have not seen
As others saw-I could not bring
My passions for a common spring-
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow_I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone-
And all I loved-I loved alone-
Then_in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life-was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent, or the fountain-
From the red cliff of the mountain-
From the sun that round me rolled
In it's autumn tint of gold-
From the lightening in the sky
As it passed me flying by-
From the thunder and the storm-
And the cloud that took the form
When the rest of Heaven was blue
Of a demon in my view.-

By Edgar Allen Poe
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Postby Apache » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:34 am

Big Poe fan. Bought his compleat work. Not a fan of his poetry, though a few hings have caught my eye. All about the stories for me.
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Postby aimdog » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:17 pm

Yeah his stories are fantastic too.
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Postby aimdog » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:57 pm

I'm going to have to be mainstream and say that my favorite is "A Tell Tale Heart"
oooooooooooooo The man with the Eye. Creepy and good.
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Postby Xan » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:08 pm

i don`t really have a favorit poet but ther is a few poems i really like one of them is

Invictus


OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul
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Postby Chucky » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:31 pm

I'm sticking with the Irish here for obvious reasons. My favourites are:
    - Patrick Kavanagh for his poem Memory of my father

    - WB Yeats for Sailing to Byzantium



Internationally, I am fond of the following two:
    - John Keats (English) for Ode on a Grecian urn

    - T.S. Eliot (American) for The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Postby lessthansign3 » Thu May 03, 2007 2:57 pm

I'm a sucker for our good ol' friend Bill Shakespeare... What can I say? He's the master.
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Postby Eruname » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:14 pm

I like J.R.R. Tolkien; he has some good ones.
"All That is Gold Does Not Glitter"

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
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"Namárië"

Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
Yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
Yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier
Mi oromardi lissë-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
Nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
Omaryo airetári-lírinen.
Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?

An sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo
Ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë
Ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë
Ar sindanóriello caita mornië
I falmalinnar imbë met,
Ar hísië untúpa Calaciryo míri oialë.
Sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar!

Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar!
Nai elyë hiruva! Namárië!

In English:

"Farewell" (AKA Galadriel's Lament)

Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind,
Long years numberless as the wings of trees!
The long years have passed like swift draughts
Of the sweet mead in lofty halls
Beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda
Wherein the stars tremble
In the voice of her song, holy and queenly.
Who now shall refill the cup for me?

For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the stars,
From Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds
And all paths are drowned deep in shadow;
And out of a grey country darkness lies
On the foaming waves between us,
And mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever.
Now lost, lost to those of the East is Valimar!

Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar!
Maybe even thou shalt find it! Farewell!

His writing seems to have a legendary and apocalyptic feel to it.
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinomë maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!

Elves are people too.
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