Your POETRY picks...

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Since literature is the main subject of this corner of the forum, why not create a little thread with the delightful fragrance of poetry, just post some quotes of your choice...

 

This one is from the Latin poet Catullus. First the translation, and then the really beautiful original text.

 

English:

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,

and let us judge all the rumors of the old men

to be worth just one penny!

The suns are able to fall and rise:

When that brief light has fallen for us,

we must sleep a never ending night.

Give me a thousand kisses, then another hundred,

then another thousand, then a second hundred,

then yet another thousand more, then another hundred.

Then, when we have made many thousands,

we will mix them all up so that we don't know,

and so that no one can be jealous of us when he finds out

how many kisses we have shared.

 

Latin:

Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,

rumoresque senum severiorum

omnes unius aestimemus assis!

soles occidere et redire possunt:

nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,

nox est perpetua una dormienda.

da mi basia mille, deinde centum,

dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,

deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.

dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,

conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,

aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,

cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.

 

(translation taken from: http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e5.htm)

[iGuest 3]

good

[iGuest 3]

I'm not much for poetry, but I really like to read freeform expression. One of my favorite people for this is the lead guitarist/singer of the band- The White Stripes. Here's an entry of his-Well the days are just spin, spin, spinnin?Meg was in the hotel lobby today waitin? on a friendI was on a cement stoop wishing I had my banjo.We played in new zealand, beautiful towns and countryNow we are in australia and blowin through the dessert With a fist full of whistles and beatsMeg white wakes up in the morning and composes beats.Pretty soon it?ll be june and I?ll be chewing on plankton and dreaming up a new Threat to the neighbors. The press keep telling me what it is that ?I?m doing?I?m so thankful, without them I wouldn?t know What I was up to.Had a cracker today too,Boy oh boy,St. gregory and st. cecilia Are looming large at the presentHung out with heddy lamar And joe meek today.Passed on a chance to save the world,But took these people up on a cup of coffee And a toast to the children.The future seems to be paved with video games,The gone fishin? sign has been replaced with ?keep out?Things are lookin up though,California?s got a new governor,And the rest of us are on a road toRestfull retirements in winnebago?s Traveling the countryside Looking for nothing in particular.That?s a beautiful thought.Jack WhiteIII

[iGuest 3]

Woww....

I cant write long poem... So how about this poem? Though it's just a short poem i can write

 

The sunset was a sigh to behold,

not only in the western sky

It spilled its beauty all around

so it couldn't miss our eye

A crater of deepest purple,

with an icing of aqua-marine

A scene that would linger,

in minds and hearts

before it went on its way

It being called

Evening's Benediction

 

Hope this poem doesnt make u confuse *hahahaha* :mrgreen: