Some of my favourites:
Shakespeare's Marriage of Minds sonnet
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est
Jennifer Dines – Story
A P Herbert - Some of my favourites:
Shakespeare's Marriage of Minds sonnet
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est
Jennifer Dines – Story
A P Herbert - Ninth Wicket
Which are your favourite poems?
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken
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To the Fallen - Dr. John McCrae.
The Musician - R S Thomas. ( When I first read this at school I didn't know I'd marry a violinist! )
The Seekers - John Masefield
The Listeners - Walter de La Mare
'Twas the Night before Christmas - Clement Moore ( a must-read to our sons first, & now grandsons )
And one I cam across in a book made me laugh..The joys of being poor..think his name was Robert Williams...
Barbara
Myfanwy - Betjamin
Not Waving but Drowning - Stevie Smith
and this:
The Look
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.
Sara Teasdale
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Mountain Lion by D H Lawrence
Do not go gently into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Vow by Roger McGough - my brother read this at my wedding (I asked him to) and to me it is the perfect wedding reading, it cuts through all the romance and flowers gently and humorously to delve into the heart of what marriage is. I refer back to it every so often!
The Night Before Christmas? Oh yes! A must.
Haiku can be fascinating by their sheer brevity. Very Zen-like.