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mk  ·  2641 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elemental haiku

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas

She Walks in Beauty -Byron

Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be soliloquy -Shakespeare

And another short one by Byron, though I don't know the name.

If I can add one per month, that would be a good thing for the year.





lil  ·  2641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps ask hubski for suggestions for your monthly poems.

I would recommend Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. It's short and easy and has many applications to modern life.

mk  ·  2640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Great choice. Commited.

mk  ·  2641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good idea. Fire and Ice is next up. :)

lil  ·  2640 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

This poem is handy to know. Recently a friend of mine dropped his iPhone into water. People said to put it in a bag with rice, a common response.

(Note - just checked the rice-cell phone solution here.)

The rice soution gave me a chance to quote Fire and [R]ice.)

  Some say the cell phone will end in fire, some in rice.

From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who

favour fire

But if it had to perish twice

I think I know enough of hate

to say that for destruction rice

is also great

and will suffice.

My friend said, "Wow, did you make that up just now?"

Clearly he wasn't a Frost fan.

lil  ·  2641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Excellent choices and admirable goal.

Have I made this a thread before? I think I might have. But what a good time to start again.

mk  ·  2626 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Added Alone by Poe.

lil  ·  2626 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Poe is excellent. I'd been thinking about your memory project and considered making more recommendations.

"Once upon a midnight dreary

While I pondered, weak and weary

Over many a quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore . . ."