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I Like Poetry; And You Do Too
Topic Started: Aug 2 2013, 10:40 PM (747 Views)
Jsbwalker
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The Pedestrian

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That was a poem I wrote a few years ago for an assignment on the short story
"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury; a bit of a prequel to Fahrenheit 451.
I found it in some old migrated documents from my last computer and thought it
was worthy of posting. The beginning could use some editing and I rushed the meter
at the ending but I still like it.
 
beastman721
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I'm a huge fan of the English Romantic poets of the 18th and early 19th Centuries.
 
Jsbwalker
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Any particular favorites?
 
beastman721
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Chicka Bow!
I'd say Coleridge and Percy Shelly.
 
iPwnies
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Here's a poem I made

Writing in the forum
Its fun fun fun
Eating taco bell makes
Me run run run
Sitting outside I like
The sun sun sun
 
Saecii
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I don't read to much poetry but here is one I found 4 years ago. The translation doesn't do it justice, since it was written to rhyme in swedish, and you can't make it rhyme in english without twisting the message.

"The satiated day is never the greatest.
The best day is a day of thirst.

There is probably purpose and meaning in our journey
but it is the pathway there, which is worth our while.

The greatest aim is a night long rest,
where the fire is lit and the bread broken in haste.

In the place, where you sleep but once,
sleep becomes safe and the dream full of song.

Move on, move on! The new day is dawning.
Endless is our great adventure."

Made by Karin Boye, 1927.
Edited by Saecii, Jan 18 2014, 12:08 PM.
 
iPwnies
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Saecii
Jan 18 2014, 09:05 AM
I don't read to much poetry but here is one I found 4 years ago. The translation doesn't do it justice, since it was written to rhyme in swedish, and you can't make it rhyme in english without twisting the message.

"The satiated day is never the greatest.
The best day is a day of thirst.

There is probably purpose and meaning in our journey
but it is the pathway there, which is worth our while.

The greatest aim is a night long rest,
where the fire is lit and the bread broken in haste.

In the place, where you sleep but once,
sleep becomes safe and the dream full of song.

Move on, move on! The new day is dawning.
Endless is our great adventure."

Made by Karin Boye, 1927.
Doesn't even rhyme
 
thewryness
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iPwnies iz abundant redundant.

Also,


Carlos el segundo rey de España murió en mil setecientos, pendejos.

Apologies that this is just rhyming and not pure poetry.
 
Saecii
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@iPwnies Fine, here's your rhyming (swedish) version

Now read it. READ IT!!

"Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst.
Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst.

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd -
men det är vägen, som är mödan värd.

Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast,
där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast.

På ställen, där man sover blott en gång,
blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång.

Bryt upp, bryt upp! Den nya dagen gryr.
Oändligt är vårt stora äventyr."



Edited by Saecii, Jan 18 2014, 09:26 PM.
 
beastman721
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Props to Samuel Tyler Coleridge for coming up with Kublah Khan while on an Opium trip, man I love the romantics.

Also, if you watch Breaking Bad, you may have noticed a youtube vid of Bryan Cranston's character reading a poem during a promo, it's Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias, another one of my personal favorites about Ramesses II's decayed legacy, sort of echoes Thomas Gray's famous sentiment in Elegy in a country churchyard; "the paths of glory lead but to the grave". As a side note, Shelly was the husband of the one and only Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein.
Edited by beastman721, Jan 18 2014, 10:14 PM.
 
thewryness
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Chicka Bow!
How's this for a blast from the past?

Honours to Jonathan Ian Mathers
 
JamesGoblin
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Mist Could Not Pass
Someone told me "Bowie went away".

But I don't believe a word they say.

I heard him singing today.
 
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