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If you love poetry, come share with us some of your favorite poems and explain to us the meaning you find in them. This is NOT a group for sharing your attempts at writing poetry. This IS a group for sharing your appreciation of published poetry.

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The purpose of this group is to share poems that speak to us. Each separate thread should start with a poem and then the first reply should be a description of what you like (or don't like) about ... | posted by searching1

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Sorrows of the Moon

I read Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal nearly a lifetime ago .I don't recall having seen any of his poems presented here before . Link is in first reply | posted by Dirck

2 replies - last reply: "The languid moon. It makes me think... more" ~ MartiInMexico

What of the Night?

1 One summer, like a stone dropped down a well, I sank into myself and raked the bottom slime. When I stretched out my thigh it touched the dark, and the dark rolled over me. A brackish life fille... | posted by searching1

3 replies - last reply: "It seemed to be 2 separate poems to... more" ~ Dirck

Rimbaud

No Sylvester Stallone , I was not talking about your character . Though this one says 5 poems by Rimbaud , i only see one , but I like it . Link is in first reply . | posted by Dirck

4 replies - last reply: "I just don't know what to say about... more" ~ MartiInMexico

"Love" sometimes goes too far...

Robert Browning. 1812–1889 720. Porphyria's Lover THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: ... read more | posted by crestofwaves

2 replies - last reply: "Hmmmmmm. I am speechless. " ~ MartiInMexico

l(a by e.e. cummings

l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness --e.e.cummings or, run together (for clarity) it says "l(a leaf falls)oneliness" It seemed clever in the way it "showed" a leaf falling, but more sadly poetic once... | posted by MarketMama

2 replies - last reply: "Well, Dirck, since I have the memory... more" ~ MartiInMexico

Thanatopsis - William Cullen Bryant

TO HIM who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and... | posted by MartiInMexico

3 replies - last reply: "I was graduated from William Cullen... more" ~ Dirck

Try to Praise the Mutilated World

by Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that metho... | posted by MartiInMexico

2 replies - last reply: "The world , especially to a Pole... more" ~ Dirck

Silence - Marianne Moore

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass flowers at Harvard. Self reliant like the cat -- that takes its prey to privacy, th... | posted by MartiInMexico

1 reply - last reply: "they . . . can be robbed of... more" ~ MartiInMexico

A Noiseless Patient Spider - Walt Whitman

A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of... read more | posted by MartiInMexico

7 replies - last reply: "Definitely up there in the top five. " ~ MartiInMexico

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