eHA_Admin_Lori is offline eHA_Admin_Lori — Advice Official Moderator Post #1  July 1,2009, 10:46am
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I love poetry, it's thought provoking and it relaxes me.

I was recently reading some poems by Rumi and I saw this one which made me think about the folks here at Advice:

Be with those who help your being

Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

Do any of you enjoy poetry? If so please share your favorites with us
 
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brneyedangel is offline brneyedangel Post #2  July 1,2009, 3:20pm
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This is one of my all time favorites, and always has been, probably because I can relate to it in my own little way.

The Road Not Taken

by 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.
 
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derrr is offline derrr Post #3  July 2,2009, 9:57pm
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I love the Road Not Taken!

I also love Unlce Walt! ("Oh, Captain!"?...okay, Walt Whitman)

I can't seem to get over "I Hear America Singing"

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A favorite Haiku???

"Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator"

(found on a t-shirt)
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eH_Advice_Admin_Lori wrote :
I love poetry, it's thought provoking and it relaxes me.

I was recently reading some poems by Rumi and I saw this one which made me think about the folks here at Advice:

Be with those who help your being

Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

Do any of you enjoy poetry? If so please share your favorites with us
Wow, Lori, that is great. I have heard of Rumi but never heard his poetry. It makes me want to investigate! Thanks for posting this.
 
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brneyedangel is offline brneyedangel Post #5  July 3,2009, 10:27pm
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derrr wrote :
I love the Road Not Taken!

I also love Unlce Walt! ("Oh, Captain!"?...okay, Walt Whitman)

I can't seem to get over "I Hear America Singing"

Super!

A favorite Haiku???

"Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator"

(found on a t-shirt)
LOL, love the haiku!
 
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eH_Advice_Admin_Lori wrote :
I love poetry, it's thought provoking and it relaxes me.

I was recently reading some poems by Rumi and I saw this one which made me think about the folks here at Advice:

Be with those who help your being

Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

Do any of you enjoy poetry? If so please share your favorites with us
What a great poem, Lori. I'm going to have to investigate Rumi further, as I'm not familiar with any works by this author. Thanks for sharing this with us!
 
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Great thread!

Here is one of my favorites--

A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland


Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.
There are the dark parts on the road
when you pass through clumps of wood
and the bright spots where you have a view of the ocean,
but that doesn't make the road an allegory.

I should call Marie and apologize
for being so boring at dinner last night,
but can I really promise not to be that way again?
And anyway, I'd rather watch the trees, tossing
in what certainly looks like sexual arousal.

Otherwise it's spring, and everything looks frail;
the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves
are full of infant chlorophyll,
the very tint of inexperience.

Last summer's song is making a comeback on the radio,
and on the highway overpass,
the only metaphysical vandal in America has written
MEMORY LOVES TIME
in big black spraypaint letters,

which makes us wonder if Time loves Memory back.

Last night I dreamed of X again.
She's like a stain on my subconscious sheets.
Years ago she penetrated me
but though I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed,
I never got her out,
but now I'm glad.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel.
What I thought was an injustice
turned out to be a color of the sky.

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store
and the police station,
a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;

overflowing with blossomfoam,
like a sudsy mug of beer;
like a bride ripping off her clothes,
dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds,

so Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene.
It's been doing that all week:
making beauty,
and throwing it away,
and making more.
 
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I really love that poem, thank you for revealing it to me! One of my favorate poets was Dorathy Parker one of the original artists of the infamous Algonquin table and one of the only women. She was way ahead of her time. She wrote "guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" but I'm sure she wasn't talking about you Derr My favorate poem of hers is "Once you sigh and swear your his, shivering and sighing, and he swears his passion is, infinite undying, lady make a note of this, one of you is lying."
 
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Rumi has always been my favorite - make sure you get the Coleman Barks translations, he is the best! he is a poet himself, his translations are liquid and lyrical.

One of my top three or four poems off all time:

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
 
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