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posted December 29, 2013 01:28 PM            

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Me, too.

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posted January 10, 2014 09:26 AM            

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Love

My soul was a light-blue gown, sky-coloured;
I left it on a cliff by the sea
and naked I came to you, resembling a woman.
And like a woman I sat at your table
and drank a toast with wine and breathed in the scent of several roses.
You found me beautiful, resembling something you'd seen dreaming,
I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my homeland,
I knew only that your caresses held me captive.
And, smiling, you took up a mirror and bade me look.
I saw that my shoulders were made of dust and crumbled away,
I saw that my beauty was sick and had no desire other than to - disappear.
Oh, hold me close in your arms, so tightly that I need nothing.
~ Edith Södergran

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posted January 10, 2014 10:29 AM            

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The world Is As It Appears

The world is as it appears
before my five senses,
and before yours, which are
the borders of my own.
The others' world
is not ours: not the same.
You are the body of water
that I am— we, together,
are the river
which as it grows deeper
is seen to run slower, clearer.
Images of life—
as soon as we receive them,
they receive us, delivered
jointly, in one rhythm.
But things form themselves
in our own delirium.
The air has the hugeness
of the heart I breathe,
and the sun is like the light
with which I challenge it.
Blind to the others,
dark, always remiss,
we always look inside,
we see from the most intimate places.
It takes work and love
to see these things with you;
to appear, like water
with sand, always one.
No one will see me completely.
Nor is anyone the way I see him.
We are something more than we see,
something less than we look into.
Some parts of the whole
pass unnoticed.
No one has seen us. We have seen
no one, blind as we are from seeing.
~Miguel Hernandez

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posted January 13, 2014 01:46 PM            

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Too many to list (Linda Goodman).

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posted January 25, 2014 12:51 PM            

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posted January 26, 2014 05:02 PM            

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Aaah sweet poetry, I come back from the harsh land of the sciences to find this, lovely

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posted January 27, 2014 11:01 AM            

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Poetry is Science of the Soul.

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Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek Happiness. Follow your dreams.

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posted February 20, 2014 02:07 PM            

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After the Winter

Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We’ll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire the shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchids smile.

And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.
~Claude Mckay

*I never realized how beautiful the word "and" can be until I saw it come alive with wonderment in this poem.

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posted February 20, 2014 06:38 PM            

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This is by no means by a famous poet, she is a young poet with one book published through Etsy and writes on her blog, but I am so in love with this piece!

Mouthful of forevers by Clementine Von Radics

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I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouthful of forevers. We
have both known loss like the sharp edges
of a knife. We have both lived with lips
more scar tissue than skin. Our love came
unannounced in the middle of the night.
Our love came when we’d given up
on asking love to come. I think
that has to be part
of its miracle.

This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.

And I will not be afraid
of your scars.

I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane."

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posted February 21, 2014 01:50 PM            

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So beautiful.

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posted February 22, 2014 03:07 PM            

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It should be famous. Every word is perfect.

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posted February 23, 2014 01:38 PM            

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LeonisStar- I think that poem is just beautiful!

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posted February 23, 2014 04:21 PM            

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It should be famous. Every word is perfect.

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Agreed! She deserves much more recognition

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posted February 24, 2014 06:56 PM            

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That one gave me goosebumps from head to toe.

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posted February 24, 2014 09:07 PM            

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Yeah, it was Something, alright.

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posted February 24, 2014 09:56 PM            

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WOW! amazing talent, amazing Soul!

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posted March 15, 2014 10:29 AM            

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Love Ascended Between Us

Love ascended between us
like the moon between two palm-trees
that have never embraced.
The intimate murmur of our two bodies
made the cooing the sea-swell brings,
but the hoarse voice was stifled,
the lips turned to stone.
The yearning to encircle moved our flesh
illuminated our inflamed bones,
but our arms’ desire to reach out
died away in our arms.
Love and the moon passed between us
and devoured our lonely bodies.
And we are two ghosts who search
and find each other from afar.
~Miguel Hernandez

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posted July 22, 2014 05:56 PM            

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A Broken Appointment

You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure lovingkindness' sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.

You love me not,
And love alone can lend you loyalty;
-I know and knew it. But, unto the store
Of human deeds divine in all but name,
Was it not worth a little hour or more
To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came
To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be
You love not me?

Thomas Hardy

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posted June 19, 2020 12:15 AM            

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bump

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posted June 19, 2020 03:31 AM            

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I once was more favorable of Edgar Allan Poe, the past few years not as much.

this one very much ~

'Sweet November'
By Joe Rewainy http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sweet-november-3/

Not your customary poem. I first heard it,
as it is part of a classic 60s film I fell in love with in my twenties. Everytime I hear it, it's like seeing an old friend. Love the film too.

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posted June 19, 2020 10:24 AM            

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Beautiful, MoonMystic!

Reminds me of a thread Pearlty had--
A Calendar of Sonnets
- http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/003040.html

~Helen Hunt Jackson
Poems for each month of the year.

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posted June 19, 2020 05:03 PM            

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I know that isn't a 'famous poet' but it is touching to me. Thank you Mirage!

Helen Hunt Jackson really brought much meaning to the year! Admittedly I've lost touch with reading, feeling poetry. I might just lurk a bit here in For Yellow Wax and the Ants sometimes. There's talent in this forum, most definitely.
I've been devoting my Fridays to music and arts a lot as well sometimes Mondays+Wednesday. Trying to re-inspire my creative side. I'll try to drop by and read the beautiful writing here. Thanks for the invite.
I'm nowhere ready to share my poetry. In time hopefully. Soon I might be taking a weekly class. Have to learn about what he teaches, to be certain I can learn all I need to from him. A one stop class. lol
Sorry to ramble. Have a lovely day Mirage.
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posted April 04, 2021 04:51 AM            

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Bump!

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posted April 04, 2021 06:02 AM            

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″La Divina Commedia″ by Dante Alighieri.

http://digitaldante.columbia.edu/

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