Favorite Poems?

[Doktor Howl]

That's really interesting, and equally hilarious. Good things seem to come out of competitions with writers. Frankenstein (allegedly), Hemmingway's six word story, Ozymandias.

I imagine there are more examples, I just don't know any.

Frankenstien was based on a nightmare Mary Shelley had.

It is also the very first science fiction novel.

[Oysters Rockefeller]

That's really interesting, and equally hilarious. Good things seem to come out of competitions with writers. Frankenstein (allegedly), Hemmingway's six word story, Ozymandias.

I imagine there are more examples, I just don't know any.

Frankenstien was based on a nightmare Mary Shelley had.

It is also the very first science fiction novel.

Well, yeah. The story, as far as I know, is that Percy, Mary, Byron, and some other shmuck were competeing to see who could write the best horror story. Mary couldn't think of what she wanted to write until she had a dream and ended up (supposedly) writing the whole thing in one night.

[Doktor Howl]

That's really interesting, and equally hilarious. Good things seem to come out of competitions with writers. Frankenstein (allegedly), Hemmingway's six word story, Ozymandias.

I imagine there are more examples, I just don't know any.

Frankenstien was based on a nightmare Mary Shelley had.

It is also the very first science fiction novel.

Well, yeah. The story, as far as I know, is that Percy, Mary, Byron, and some other shmuck were competeing to see who could write the best horror story. Mary couldn't think of what she wanted to write until she had a dream and ended up (supposedly) writing the whole thing in one night.

Balls.  The outline, maybe.

It was apparently inspired by the works of Galvani, whom she had been reading.  That led her to speculate what might be possible with the new technology of the time, electricity...and what effects it would have on society.

And that's the best definition of science fiction I've heard yet.

[Mistre]

Sonnet 18

Anything by Vinicius de Moraes

[MMIX]

"Not waving but drowning" Stevie Smith

Its short

eta so is "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas

Short but deep, maybe a good intro for people who aren't really into pomes.

[ThatGreenGentleman]

Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling. I love the ending lines of it.

"Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

This is technically a song*, but I'm partial to The Ball of Kirriemuir
(http://www.turoks.net/Bordello/TheBallOfKirriemuir.php)


*Personally though, I encountered the lyrics and came to love it as a poem before I ever heard it actually performed and I think that others may as well.

[Doktor Howl]

Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling. I love the ending lines of it.

"Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

Now read Cleared.