Writer's Block

Writer's Block

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[info]ljswritersblock Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem
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Rose
[info]thoughtsdriftby Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem


To Posterity - Bertolt Brecht
(partial)

For we knew only too well:
Even the hatred of squalor
Makes the brow grow stern.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we
Who wished to lay th
 
Zhen Trigram
[info]rhyyss Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem
Sonnet on Hope
by Richmond Lattimore

Bedraggled daughter of Desire and Fear,
she'll glaze your eyes and sing your brain to sleep,
pour siren's wax and honey in your ear.
Hope, self-seduced and simple, cou
 
Prisoner Quiz
[info]scottobear Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem
some days are easier than others.

today was not one of them.




Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole;
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell
 
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[info]justrose Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem

The Connoisseuse of Slugs by Sharon Olds

When I was a connoisseuse of slugs
I would part the ivy leaves, and look for the
naked jelly of those gold bodies,
translucent strangers glistening along t

 
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[info]xkayleesxdeadx Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem
 

Through My Eyes

Like tyrants assembled with tears
Trembling like a tomb
And singing like a statue
I am as empty as the ocean.
My blind eyes scream in silence
So this eternal echo will be kn
 
The Girls
[info]ladycricket Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem
When Friendship or Love our sympathies move,
When Truth in a glance should appear,
The lips may beguile with a dimple or smile,
But the test of affection's a Tear.

Too oft is a smile but the hypocrite's w
 
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[info]estrelladesax Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem


They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing, they most do show,
Who moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:
(Shakespeare, Sonnet 94, fir
 
i am winning you over.
[info]cherrybombstyle Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem


"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, Sir, I say.
Colours seen by candlelight,
Will not look the same by day.

When the viols played their best,
Lamps above, and laughs below---
Love me sound
 
Sunflowers
[info]cedartree Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem


My favorite poem is by Margaret Atwood. It's called Variations on the Word Sleep. The last stanza is the best.

I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping
 
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[info]shamandalie_ Kirjoituskyvyttömyys: Lempirunoni


WILLIAM BLAKE : The Smile

There is a Smile of Love
And there is a Smile of Deceit
And there is a Smile of Smiles
In which these two Smiles meet

And there is a Frown of Hate
And there

 
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[info]wingnutadams Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem

        I am any man’s suitor,
        If any will be my tutor:
        Some

 
[info]ilovejoe4ever Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem

I like ANYTHING by Edgar Allan Poe!
But my favorite poem by him is "The Raven"
I find it to be one of his more intresting poems.
And i also like it because my name is Raven lol.

 
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[info]koalasgorawr Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem


THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

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 underg
 
misc - penguin me
[info]relsqui Writer's Block: A Favorite Poem


You get two, in descending order of preference but not by much:

Love-Song, by Rainer Maria Rilke
How shall I hold my soul, that it may not
be touching yours? How shall I lift it then
above you to where ot
 

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