Poetry

@MistyMagic

A plethora of amazing poems out there, so hard to pick one. However, when I read the question, something that instantly popped in my mind was this one by Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods.

I guess simply because of these two lines from the poem, that I feel is quite resonant and I keep these words close for some reason lol.

"But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." Something about these words is both hard hitting and calming. Something to hold ourselves accountable with and have the validation that, there's time and we can be at our pace. ❤

How about you, Misty?

I don't have a favourite poem, they all seem depressing

@MistyMagic

I absolutely love poetry! As an extremely indecisive person, I find it very, very hard to pick just one favorite poem, but I'm really excited to see what the others pick. I'll definitely be coming back and reading all of those haha

This poem :

"I wish I wrote the way I

thought;

Obsessively,

Incessantly,

With maddening hunger.

I'd write to the point of

suffocation.

I'd write myself into

nervous breakdowns,

Manuscripts spiralling out

Like tentacles into abysmal

nothing.

And I'd write about you

a lot more

than I should."

By Benedict Smirth it called "I wish i wrote the way i thought"

"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version

Because it expresses the amazing thing we all are, each of us, the value of community among all people, and our unity with Nature and the Universe.

I don't have a favorite poem (though Kipling's If is great), but I do have a favorite poet: Charles Bukowski.

He was a keen observer of the human condition, particularly in a socially atomized urban environment like Los Angeles in the late 60's through the early 2000's. Brilliant guy, who never pretended to be anything other than what he was.

@MistyMagic

I have so many favourites it's all to hard to choose, but many that I like are quite dark.

Here are a couple that come to mind though I would say these would both require a **Trigger Warning***:

• "Sonnet X" By John Donne
• "While we were fearing it, it came" by Emily Dickinson

You found a cat, but shh... don't tell where I am!

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