Poetry

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Discuss your favorite poems or post your own

[Eva]

haiku?

[kitinkaboodle]

Gesundheit!!

[nnyhav]

hieku

life in the fast lane
in 25 words or less
life in the food chain

[chauncey.g]

hi cuke

you are a fine food
crisp, cool, edible jewel
right for any mood

[Eva]

luscious-yellow fruit
let us sweeten up the day
mango y mango

[madupont]

Hic ego qui iaceo tenerorum lusor amorum
Ingenio perii, Naso poeta, meo.
At tibi qui transis, ne sit grave, quisquis amasti,
Dicere: Nasonis molliter ossa cubent.


                                                      consider this a found poem,

                                                      Found yesterday, by coincidence.

[Lhoffman]

It's Ovid's Bones.....Tristia?

[Lhoffman]

Here I lie,
who betrayed thy tend’rest love.
Here I lie,
Betrayed by mine own genius.
Walk past my grave
With quiet heart,
That the bones of Ovid
Rest easy.

[weezo]

Ah, would some god the giftie gi'e us
To see ourselves as ithers see us
'Twould frae many a blunder free us
And foolish notion


and

I'm nobody, who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Don't tell
They'll banish us you know

How dreary to be someone
How public, like a frog
To croak your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog ....

http://www.educationalsynthesis.org/language/ImNobody.html

and turn on your sound.....

[madupont]

Here I lie, who played with tender loves,
Naso the poet, killed by my own talent.
O passerby, if you've ever been in love,
let it not be too much for you
to say: May the bones of Naso lie gently.

                                                            Another version in translation

[Lhoffman]

Your translation is a bit more exact than mine.  The problem I have with translating is which element to sacrifice...meaning or poetry.

I like the sense of "if you've ever been in love
let it not be too much for you
to say...."

[weezo]

Thanks, NY Temps,

I made the change on the webpage, but cannot make the change in the flash of the poem. Flash makes very large files when they include sound, and I was using floppies back then (in 2005) and it wouldn't fit on a floppy, so when that hard drive crashed, I lost the flash version I could make changes in. I will have to remake the whole flash program to fix it, and that is more than what I have time to do at the present. So, I will have to settle for one place having the name correct, and the other having the misspelling. I hope dear Emily does not mind her name misspelled into posterity! Thank for point it out!

[madupont]

YES,  But it is very vague at this remove.

[Beppo]

anti-haiku

When they was seventeen
noses were taboo
so to spite their face
they sliced it off
with something thin and worthy

When seventeen geneologies kick in
at seventeen
big-time space
develops its
one moment
its the next moment
                          then the next
                                 the next