Poetry Corner

[Beauts]

The one thing that seems to be missing from the media section is poetry. This is a place for everyone to share their favourite quotes (or the whole thing) from poems. You can also share your own works.

To start I will share one of my favourite poems.

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life
Don't let it be clubbed into dank submission
Be on the watch
There are ways out
There is a light somewhere
It may not be much light but
It beats the darkness
Be on the watch
The gods will offer you chances
Know them
Take them
You can't beat death but
You can beat death in life, sometimes
And the more often you learn to do it
The more light there will be
Your life is your life
Know it while you have it
You are marvellous
The gods wait to delight
In you.

 

[DekuNut]

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borgoves
And the mome raths outgabe

"Beware the Jabberwork, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch
Beware the jubjub bird,
And shun the frumious bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the manxome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borgoves
And the mome raths outgabe

-Jabberwocky, Lewis Caroll

 

[Beauts]

Faceless - Benjamin Zephaniah

You have to look beyond the face
To see the person true
Deep down within my inner space
I am the same as you
I've counted since that fire burnt
The many lessons I have learnt.

You have to talk to me and not
The skin that holds me in
I took the wisdom that I got
To make sure that I win;
I'm counting weaker folk than me
Who look but truly cannot see.

I've seen compassion from the blind
Who think with open eyes
It's those that judge me quick, you'll find
Are those that are unwise;
Why judge the face that I have on
Just value my opinion.

Friends will come and friends will go
Now I need friends who feel
My friends have changed so much and so
I make sure they are real;
I took the ride and paid the price
I can't afford to do that twice.

I came to here from ignorance
I cannot call it bliss
And now I know the importance
Of loving me like this;
To leave behind the backward state
Of judging looks is very great.

I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful
This minor fact I know
I tell you it's incredible;
Near death has made me grow.
Look at me, smile, you are now seeing
A great thing called a human being.

 

[Morbid Minish]

My absolute favorite poem.


Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

 

[DekuNut]

One of the most classic poems out there imo. Must read for just about any person ever

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.