[ SECRET POST #2708 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2708 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High and Saved By The Bell]


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03.
[The Cinema Snob]

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04.
[Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty]


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05.
[Silicon Valley]


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06.
[Xavier Dolan]


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07.
[Pacific Rim]


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08.
[Sailor Moon]


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09.
[Iwan Rheon]


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10.
[Love Stage!!]


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11.
[The Losers (movie)]


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12.
[K-pop]










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Comments

Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

...What are yours and why, F!S?

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

Noone will have heard of this, I bet. The entire 'Please Mrs Butler' collection by Allan Ahlberg.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Dickinson fan. I enjoy many of her poems (it helps that they're shortish) and I like coming at things sideways. I think my favorite is "One need not be a Chamber" which has followed me for years.

I'm also unreasonably fond of Byron, the Kesha of the late 18th century.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not really a poem kind of girl, so I tend to like poems that don't really read like poems. I don't know if it's my favorite, but "7 or 8 Things I Know about Her (A Stolen Biography)" by Michael Ondaatje comes to mind.

Short stories and vignettes are more my scene, and I think this poem reads like one. :) Also, it's really short and sweet.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

I really like Taylor Mali. The first that comes to mind is the one that introduced me to him: What Teachers Make, but I'm sure if I had time to really think about it, I'd think of one I liked more.

I also really like...I don't remember what it's called or who did it, but there was an animated YouTube video for it and it was about bullying and beauty. It was really really good. I actually feel the title on the tip of my tongue, but shitty Qdoba music is pumping through the air and killing my brain.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

Either Sylvia Plath's 'Mushrooms' or Laura Madeline Wiseman's 'Abduction'. I really like the structure in both poems; I can't really articulate beyond that why either one is so appealing to me. *shrug*

Re: Favourite poem

[kaijinscendre]

Anything by Shel Silverstein. This is probably my favorite.
“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”

Re: Favourite poem

[loracarol]

The Owl and the Pussycat

We had a kid's picture book that was this poem, and it was super pretty.

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

I admit, I don't always understand T.S. Elliot, but he has some really pretty imagery:

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Porphyria's Lover

Gorgeously spooky.

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Sea Fever

Again, I love the imagery: ocean/sea imagery is kind of my favorite thing. :3

Re: Favourite poem

[silvereriena]

The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, because every time I try and recite it by memory, I can get lost in the imagery it evokes.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

Aale Tyyni's "Lasinen vuori". I first heard it as a child, because a band which my father listened to had made a song out of it. Then I forgot all about it, until it was brought up in a poem writing class I attended. Around the same time I was starting to pick up the band's CDs and discovered the song the second time. It is kinda sad, but also really beautiful and it has been with me for a long time.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

Yeats wrote some nice poetry.

INTO THE TWILIGHT

OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

Your mother Eire is always young,
Dew ever shining and twilight grey;
Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;

And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the grey twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

I ain't highbrow and I love the heck outta Ogden Nash.

"Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today"

"The Wombat lives across the seas
Among the fair Antipodes
He may subsist on nuts and berries
Or, then again, on missionaries.
Still, I would not engage the wombat
in any form of mortal combat."

I also like some Wordsworth, especially "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

[(Anonymous)]

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Francis William Bourdillon

THE NIGHT has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.


It's really sad, but it speaks to me. When I'm in the mood for something happier, I usually go for:

Invitation
Shel Silverstein

If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by the fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

"The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and "Thou Hast Made Me" by John Donne. No matter how far I wander, those are always the two I come back to.

Special mention to "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, "The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, and the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear, with "The Owl and the Pussycat" chief among them.

On a darker note, "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen. Every time.

Re: Favourite poem

[cushlamochree]

To The Stonecutters, by Robinson Jeffers

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore-defeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly:
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart.
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.

I love Robinson Jeffers, even if he was almost certainly an enormous asshole.

Some other poems I like... Sunday Morning and The Idea Of Order At Key West by Wallace Stevens. Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren. As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins is just beautiful. And it's hard to pick one out because her poems tend to be short and cumulative but I'm a big fan of Jane Kenyon.

Re: Favourite poem

[intrigueing]

The Tyger by William Blake.

Re: Favourite poem

[cassandraoftroy]

I've got a few favorite poets, who might alternately be considered "classic" or "cliche." I'm the sort of person who, at one point, could recite the entirety of Poe's The Raven, and can still do Lewis Carroll's The Jabberwocky and William Blake's The Tyger.

I tend to be partial to some of the longer poems, though -- Byron's Don Juan is hilarious and fantastic (though admittedly I still need to work my way through the whole thing; it's hard to read online. I need a paper copy). He's snarky and sarcastic and takes random potshots at his contemporaries who he considers "sellouts," and it's great. The whole Dedication is a rather vicious roast of Robert Southey. I also really love Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Re: Favourite poem

[xalus]

I'm a fan of Richard Siken. Scheherazade is one of my favorites- Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running until they forget that they are horses. It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means we’re inconsolable. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we’ll never get used to it.

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

"An Irish Airman foresees his death" by W.B. Yeats, "Alte Eiche" by Hermann Hesse and basically everything by Mascha Kaléko.
The first because of it's theme's and sound. The second because it's basically a power ballad for Hesse. And Mascha Kaléko writes some of the most nostalgic and yearning stuff ever.

Re: Favourite poem

[inkdust]

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, because it was presented in the director's note of the only school play I was ever in by the most formative teacher I ever had, who moved away afterward. And because it was the first time I was ever told, "You do not have to be good."

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

Brian Hooker's verse translation of Cyrano de Bergerac gets me every time, it's just so perfectly gorgeous and evocative. Just one passage from memory:

"Your name is like a golden bell hung in my heart,
and when I think of you, I tremble,
and the bell swings and rings, 'Roxanne!' 'Roxanne!'
along my veins, 'Roxanne!'"

Re: Favourite poem

[(Anonymous)]

"The Quitter," by Robert William Service. It has a beautiful, rolling cadence that just moves the words through my head.

Re: Favourite poem

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

I'll pick one and a poet, just because.

First off, "Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh Grade Viking Warrior" by Taylor Mali (http://www.taylormali.com/poems-online/tony-steinberg-brave-seventh-grade-viking-warrior/) because holy shit, all I could do was cry into my sleeves.

However, Wistlawa Szymborska is probably my favorite poet ever, because even in translation, she's got such a gift with words that it grips you by the ribs and makes you feel something, whether it's happiness or sadness or contemplation. Personal favorites are "Vocabulary," "Starvation Camp Near Jaslo" (the opening lines of this one are some of my favorites of any poem ever), and "Conversation with a Stone" (which has the best ending lines).

Re: Favourite poem

[augustbird]

no fave poem but i do have a lot of poems that stick with me for whatever reason. of the classic/cliche answers, i'm pretty partial to the love song of j alfred prufrock

contemporary poems i love:
http://plumepoetry.com/issue-4/to-fire-lance-larsen/ - the last verse is amazing, i can't put my finger on why but i feel like i'm swept right into the sky with the lines
http://augustbird.tumblr.com/post/58766534347/sean-bishop - think reading this came at a right time for me

Re: Favourite poem

[mechanosapience]

Probably "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost.