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No matter their age, some celebrities have old souls; poems written by celebrity poets and your favorite celebrities' favorite poems.
Philip Larkin Was In Our Garden
Philip Larkin was in our garden – writing poetry they said My neighbour told her neighbour that she’d seen him lurking, furtively
Divsie FloodPublished 3 years ago in PoetsBook Review: "Selected Poems and Prose" by Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas is one of the great poets and diarists of the modern age. I had only recently read an entire book of his selected works after having read bits and pieces of poetry here and there and practically none of this wonderful prose in my life. I have honestly been awakened to a new kind of diarist, a new type of person who appreciates something that the realist and modernist tradition had almost lost thanks to its impractical revolt against romanticism. Edward Thomas not only remains in a space between the romantics of nature and the realists of the modern world, but he also supplies the reader with an almost psychological sense of style with his elongated metaphors, his cyclic realities and his massive descriptions on minute detail. Like a piece of art, each word is a stroke of the brush that applied, makes the work one thing, or another thing entirely. The work I have witnessed within these selected works by Edward Thomas are not just great, but not for a very long time have I been so overwhelmed by descriptions, language use or emotion. His prose style is the beauty of his changing times whilst his poetry retains the classical notions whilst pushing towards complex emotions and sufferings such as melancholia and insomnia. Let it just be said that Edward Thomas holds the line that keeps the romanticist in us alive.
Annie KapurPublished 3 years ago in PoetsStephen Crane — The Poet and the Writer
Born November 1st, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, Stephen Crane is an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer who is popularly known for famous novels such as Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), The Red Badge of Courage (1895), and many more. Stephen’s father Jonathan Crane, a minister died in 1880, leaving Stephen, the youngest of his children to be raised by their strong-minded mother.
Christopher HarveyPublished 3 years ago in PoetsBook Review: "Selected Poems" by Federico Garcia Lorca
When I first read Federico Garcia Lorca, I was only about sixteen and I cannot remember exactly what I was reading because it was not a book. It was on a sheet of paper and it was one of his poems. The only thing I did remember [because I wrote it in my journal] was that it was 'revolutionary' in language [is how I put it]. Through reading a book filled the selected best poems of Lorca, I have come to re-establish what that means. I wrote it to mean that the images that I was reading of Lorca and relating it to the context of the Spanish Civil War in which he had been active in, this would have been a revolutionary act and may have been one of the reasons that ultimately and unfortunately, he was killed. The intense liberation of human emotion in the poems may have been one of the reasons why the Spanish Army were not too fond of Lorca's writings and why Lorca, in the many years after the Civil War, became an icon for freedom, revolution and basically one of the heroes of Spain.
Annie KapurPublished 3 years ago in PoetsHer Name is Maya
She made her way with her intelligence, boldness, and grace This woman is special She has a name And her name is Maya Born as the name, Marguerite Annie Johnson
Gladys W. MuturiPublished 3 years ago in PoetsFame Doesn't Always Come Swiftly
From karaoke singing and rejected covers. You didn't give up. Your heart recovers. Your acclaim wasn't instantaneous,
Rowan FinleyPublished 3 years ago in PoetsA Psychiatrist's Dream
Hello Mr Byron oh, sorry I mean Lord. Get on with it you overpriced twit I'm getting bored. Okay so what is making you feel so blue?
Paul CrockerPublished 3 years ago in PoetsJimi's Last Poem
Die daily we die like the dishes are done wash them away wash them everyday acid in my bones I saw the air flash when I opened my eyes
Maureen Kellar-KirbyPublished 3 years ago in Poets"Like the Dyer's Hand"
If you like poetry, want to know Chinese poems, or feel interesting in Chinese ancient culture, here is the movie "Like the Dyer's Hand" for you. ‘Like the Dyer's Hand’ is a documentary that was taken two years and released recently. It is the final chapter of ‘The Trilogy of Poems’ directed by Chen Chuanxing, which recorded the legendary life of contemporary poet Ye Jiaying (1924 - ).
Golden MaplePublished 3 years ago in PoetsBook Review: "Selected Poems" by Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky’s poetry is an imaginative, beautiful piece of work about the way in which we can see magic and style, fluency and control flow through Russian Poetry even after the likes of Anna Akhmatova, Leo Tolstoy etc. are no longer around. Brodsky takes concepts such as love and war and interweaves them into the symbols of darkness, nature and many more symbols of emotions to do with death and loss. Brodsky’s poetry is a powerful blend of melancholy and hope, grief and regaining, timelessness and patience. It is simply beautiful to read and is that poetry that you have to read out loud or it just does not have the same ring to it.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in PoetsAn Open Letter to Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau. Prince of the Transcendentalists. The self-insinuated ringleader of an army of disobedients. A desirer to live deliberately and a hopeful bride to a life of nature, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency. I write directly to you with all the knowledge of my self-centeredness and self-seeking. I must make this about myself because I could not possibly attach these feelings onto the heart of another. For all that I am worth, and with all of my words that well up inside me, I must place on you a flowing river of thoughts that I have only saved for you. This is my gift and you are the sole receiver, you quiet man of Walden Pond.
Joshua GradyPublished 4 years ago in Poets"The Poems" by Propertius
The poet Propertius was an Latin Elegiac of the Augustan Period and his only surviving works are those of his four books of “Elegies”. This totals around 92 surviving poems and his more romantic side of poetry is dominated by a character named “Cynthia”. The romantic affair between Propertius and Cynthia takes wild turns and often turns either violent and turbulent or graphic and passionate. Common themes in the poems include: passion, romance, jealousy, violence, standards of love and courtship, lament, death and the afterlife, mythology, religion and ghosts. Propertius’s unconventional use of the Latin language have often made his texts and allusions within texts difficult to translate and edit. The surviving manuscripts of his poetry have led translators to often alter the texts and therefore corrupting them before the editing stage. Propertius’s boldness has often been said to exacerbate the problem of translation due to the way in which the syntax of the poetry is often incorrect. Be that as it may, themes, symbols and motifs are still clearly visible throughout the anthology. Propertius, being popular within his own lifetime but also a poet considered to be a scandal was also not really enjoyed by the other poets of his time and period. Horace had once stated a veiled attack on him and Callimachus as did Quintilian who states that the poet was not as popular as he made himself out to be.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in Poets