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wow. great poem, hits close to home. thanks for posting this.Zeelander said:I love poetry. Buying anthologies and collections of poetry makes me so happy. I have been threatening to make my boyfriend a poetry compliation book, like one would a music compilation CD, because he doesn't get poetry and thinks it's for dorks. My favourite poem remains this Simon Armitage one, which I've posted before and never fails to make me well up...
To His Lost Lover by Simon Armitage
heheh. knew you'd pop up with that one sooner or later. wasn't that from the same book you threw out the window?hanley said:Pat Ingoldsby
Polio
half a hug is all i can give you
Brilliant
plug said:heheh. knew you'd pop up with that one sooner or later. wasn't that from the same book you threw out the window?
brian/heathons said:Barry Kent is my favourite poet.Anyone read Aidan Vole?
das nugs said:i'd recommend to anyone that you purcahse (purCHASE) and read john montague's collected poems.
Rudyard Kipling said:China-Going P&O.’s
Pass Pau Amma’s playground close,
And his Pusat Tasek lies
Near the track of most B.I.’s
N.Y.K. and N.D.I.
Know Pau Amma’s home as well
As the Fisher of the Sea knows
‘Bens’, M.M.’s and Rubattinos.
But (and this is rather queer)
A.T.L.’s can not come here;
O. and O. and D.O.A.
Must go round another way.
Orient, Anchor, Bibby, Hall,
Never go that way at all.
U.C.S. would have a fit
If it found itself on it.
And if ‘Beavers’ took their cargoes
To Penang instead of Lagos,
Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore
Passengers to Singapore,
Or a White Star were to try a
Little trip to Sourabaya,
Or a B.S.A. went on
Past natal to Cheribon,
Then great Mr. Lloyds would come
With a wire and drag them home!
You’ll know what my riddle means
When you’ve eaten mangosteens.
Marianne Moore said:Poetry
I, too, dislike it.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
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