Poetry

[Bubble]

I have decided to start reading poetry...anyone have any suggestions????

[violetblue]

Frederico Garcia Lorca, Gypsy poems

[CLOWN TICKLE]

Any of the nations favourite series, eg love, comic etc and also benjamin zephania and roger mcgough

[violetblue]

Yes, great choices CLOWNTICKLE, Benjamin Zephaniah has lots of poems on his website, just put in Benjamin Zephaniah as keywords and the site will appear.

[Clanad]

A well known, regionally in New England at least, is Mary Oliver...

Here's a sample:
Egrets
Where the path closed
down and over,
through the scumbled leaves,
fallen branches,
through the knotted catbrier,
I kept going. Finally
I could not
save my arms
from thorns; soon
the mosquitoes
smelled me, hot
and wounded, and came
wheeling and whining.

Contd. (Apparently the site is accepting longer posts again... sorry)

[Clanad]

Contd.

And that's how I came
to the edge of the pond:
black and empty
except for a spindle
of bleached reeds
at the far shore
which, as I looked,
wrinkled suddenly
into three egrets - - -
a shower
of white fire!
Even half-asleep they had
such faith in the world
that had made them - - -
tilting through the water,
unruffled, sure,
by the laws
of their faith not logic,
they opened their wings
softly and stepped
over every dark thing.

Mary Oliver
More here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/mary-oliver/poet-677 1/

Enjoy!

[Poppy]

Dylan Thomas is my favourite. Especially Fern Hill.
"Time held me green and dying/But I sang in my chains like the sea"

[Fish the Mod]

Bubble is ready to write
everything from the gob
but after reading some
don't give up your day job

[samuel23]

depends on whether you want high brow, romantic, rustic, or nonsense
try - browning, keats, shelley and byron for entertainment - edward lear for amusement, christina rossetti for angst, A E Houseman a shropshire lad, alfred noyes - the highwayman, wilfred owen - dulce et decorum est for poignancy (don't be put off by the title) and bob dylan for music

[jeanette1976]

I'm also looking a book and starting to write my own stuff, none of which i'm putting on here as i'm hoping to get them published.

Just go to your local Waterstones or Library and have a quick browse... If you look on the net, unfortunately, a lot of the poems are simply on because they rhyme, although you do see the odd gem.

It depends on what kind of stuff you like, old, new, classical, humour, theres so much. The book i'm currently after is one written by British Comedians, but I'm not too sure of the name.

[drwhofan]

We studied Robert Frost when I was doing my A - Level and I really enjoyed his work. you can read it simply as an easy poem, or there is a lot of hidden subtext and deeper meanings which give you more to think about and interpret.

[~LilyAnna~]

Simon Armitage is good. Personally I recently studied First World War poets, if you like something very emotional yet quite dark Siegfried Sassoon is a good one to read. Most of the Irish poets from WW1 were extremely good. Depends what kind of poems you want to read.

[luckyeight]

Carol Ann Duffy.

[pleasehelpme]

Robert frost

[pleasehelpme]

Elizabeth Bishop is quite good too.

[The_Cuban]

Wilfred Owen - First World War poet.
Gritty, moving and strangely beautiful. Inspired by his experiences in the trenches. Sadly died just days before the end of the war, and never got the accolades his work deserved. Buried in Shrewsbury.