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Sincluda wrote:LETS GO FLEET WATER!!

Happy Friday to Fleet Water and Fleet Water only.

Not to fret wrote:Good morning lovely people!

Today is Friday!! We're gonna try

Free Verse Friday!

Poetry day, y'all! Do you want to share your private works? Do so!

Maybe you just want to share some of your favorite poetry that someone else wrote? (Giving credit, of course) Totally okay!!

Let's get poetical up in here :-D

John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Gets me crying every time.

Not to fret wrote:Good morning lovely people!

Today is Friday!! We're gonna try

Free Verse Friday!

Poetry day, y'all! Do you want to share your private works? Do so!

Maybe you just want to share some of your favorite poetry that someone else wrote? (Giving credit, of course) Totally okay!!

Let's get poetical up in here :-D

Alexander Vertinsky
“What I Have To Say” (1917)

I don't know who would need it and what was their reason,
Who's sent them to their deaths with unquivering hand,
They've been granted no mercy when people were easing
Their bodies in wet graveyard sand.

Cautious onlookers silently kept adjusting their fur coats,
And some woman from motley crowd with contorted pale face
Kissed the blue lips of her beloved, the deceased [one] she used to dote,
And she threw her engagement ring at the chaplain apace.

They were covered with green fir boughs and with dirty sand layers,
Then spectators went home to discuss on the sly
That it's high time to end all this [sad] disgrace and say prayers,
That a famine is coming soon and we'll have to scrape by.

And no one had a simple thought just to get down on his knees
And to tell these deceased young boys that in this dismal land
Even glorious feats are just steps to endless abysses,
To the Spring that is out of reach, that is splendid and grand…

Not to fret, The United Peoples of Centrism, and Poseidon63

These are all lovely

ELDORADO - by Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o’er his heart a shadow—
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
‘Shadow,’ said he,
‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?’

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

Not to fret, The United Peoples of Centrism, and Poseidon63

The United Peoples of Centrism WHAT DID YOU DO! You bidded 0.50 without me knowing!

Poseidon63 wrote:The United Peoples of Centrism WHAT DID YOU DO! You bidded 0.50 without me knowing!

cope 😎

Poseidon63 and Former president lyndon johnson

Not to fret wrote:Good morning lovely people!

Today is Friday!! We're gonna try

Free Verse Friday!

Poetry day, y'all! Do you want to share your private works? Do so!

Maybe you just want to share some of your favorite poetry that someone else wrote? (Giving credit, of course) Totally okay!!

Let's get poetical up in here :-D

My favourite poems from when I did my GCSE English Language Power and Conflict Poems are (in no particular order):
Ozymandias-Percy Bysshe Shelley, London-William Blake, The Prelude-William Wordsworth, My Last Duchess-Robert Browning, The Charge Of The Light Brigade-Alfred Lord Tennyson, Exposure-Wilfred Owen, Storm On The Island-Seamus Heaney, Bayonet Charge-Ted Hughes, Remains-Simon Armitage, Poppies-Jane Weir, War Photographer-Carol Anne Duffy, Tissue-Imtiaz Dharker, The Émigrée-Carol Rumens, Kamikaze-Beatrice Garland and Checking Out My History-John Agard.

Of weimar wrote:My favourite poems from when I did my GCSE English Language Power and Conflict Poems are (in no particular order):
Ozymandias-Percy Bysshe Shelley, London-William Blake, The Prelude-William Wordsworth, My Last Duchess-Robert Browning, The Charge Of The Light Brigade-Alfred Lord Tennyson, Exposure-Wilfred Owen, Storm On The Island-Seamus Heaney, Bayonet Charge-Ted Hughes, Remains-Simon Armitage, Poppies-Jane Weir, War Photographer-Carol Anne Duffy, Tissue-Imtiaz Dharker, The Émigrée-Carol Rumens, Kamikaze-Beatrice Garland and Checking Out My History-John Agard.

Yay! Another Ozymandias stan

Not to fret and Callistortzka

Callistortzka

I feel a little ignorant seeing all these poems since I barely know anything about English literature, but there is one Turkish poem that I hold very dear to my heart—"Vaiz Sokağı No. 70". It's a great poem—written by a great poet, Turgut Uyar—that discusses poverty, an issue that I have experienced all my life (and especially in these recent months). [P.S: I'm not posting it here because I can't find a good translation of it and posting the raw Turkish version of the poem would be pointless.]

Callistortzka wrote:I feel a little ignorant seeing all these poems since I barely know anything about English literature, but there is one Turkish poem that I hold very dear to my heart—"Vaiz Sokağı No. 70". It's a great poem—written by a great poet, Turgut Uyar—that discusses poverty, an issue that I have experienced all my life (and especially in these recent months). [P.S: I'm not posting it here because I can't find a good translation of it and posting the raw Turkish version of the poem would be pointless.]

Thank you for sharing regardless! I’ll take your word on there not being good options for English translations, but those are things that definitely resonate with me and I can think of poems with similar subjects that have moved me a lot

Callistortzka

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Not to fret wrote:Good morning lovely people!

Today is Friday!! We're gonna try

Free Verse Friday!

Poetry day, y'all! Do you want to share your private works? Do so!

Maybe you just want to share some of your favorite poetry that someone else wrote? (Giving credit, of course) Totally okay!!

Let's get poetical up in here :-D

As much as I didn't want to do this, I'll do it cuz I've got nothing better to do

"Countries" (I made this but I might of copied someone unknowingly)

Countries Rise, Countries Fall.
States have a beginning and an end.
With power, you stand taller than most.
But as soon as you lose it, you're toast.

Even if you defeat your foes,
the stress will get to you, head to toes.
As high and tall as you soar,
you will always be looking for more.

And when you lead your nation to go fight,
your goal, will go out of sight.
War only brings us down,
and that's how you'll eventually lose your crown.

Not to fret and Dracondra

I'm going to introduce the very first Fact Friday. Here's how it will work: I will give you a random topic and you have give me an interesting fact you know about that topic (if you don't know any facts about that topic you can look on Internet or in a book).

The topic I would like an interesting fact is Isabella of Castile.

Good luck finding the fact.

Of weimar wrote:I'm going to introduce the very first Fact Friday. Here's how it will work: I will give you a random topic and you have give me an interesting fact you know about that topic (if you don't know any facts about that topic you can look on Internet or in a book).

The topic I would like an interesting fact is Isabella of Castile.

Good luck finding the fact.

She Discovered the New World by Sponsoring Christopher Columbus

Her Husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, was Her Cousin

The Spanish Inquisition was Established Under Her

She Was the First Woman to Appear On a US Coin

And she Was Outlived by Only 3 of Her 5 Children

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Northeastern italian

Gadsteiner wrote:She Discovered the New World by Sponsoring Christopher Columbus

Her Husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, was Her Cousin

The Spanish Inquisition was Established Under Her

She Was the First Woman to Appear On a US Coin

And she Was Outlived by Only 3 of Her 5 Children

good afternoon, today is very comfortable, warm but comfortable 🌞

Northeastern italian wrote:good afternoon, today is very comfortable, warm but comfortable 🌞


Not where I live

Northeastern italian

Gadsteiner wrote:Not where I live

Here in Brazil it is very hot, I went for a walk and had an ice cream

Gallotts world

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Northeastern italian wrote:Here in Brazil it is very hot, I went for a walk and had an ice cream

Here in Argentina it is an oven, I stayed home and have done nothing.

Not to fret wrote:Good morning lovely people!

Today is Friday!! We're gonna try

Free Verse Friday!

Poetry day, y'all! Do you want to share your private works? Do so!

Maybe you just want to share some of your favorite poetry that someone else wrote? (Giving credit, of course) Totally okay!!

Let's get poetical up in here :-D

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Not to fret wrote:Good morning lovely people!

Today is Friday!! We're gonna try

Free Verse Friday!

Poetry day, y'all! Do you want to share your private works? Do so!

Maybe you just want to share some of your favorite poetry that someone else wrote? (Giving credit, of course) Totally okay!!

Let's get poetical up in here :-D

I enjoy poetry recital (memorising poems, practising rhythm and delivery, then impressing people with your recital!), and quite possibly the best poem for recital is The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven

It is in no way short, but the beautifully consistent metre lends itself perfectly to memorisation.

Each Stanza:
Line 1 A A
Line 2 B
Line 3 C C
Line 4 C B
Line 5 B
(Line 5 is a half line)
The rhyming unit 'B' is always '-ore'
As I write this I realise how much I love this poem

It's dramatic narrative constantly changes pace as the character experiences a near complete range of emotions: from relaxed to confused, to sorrowful, to more confident, to afraid, to terrified, to supercilious, to at ease, then a slow build up of anger until the final outburst (concluding with an exquisite, dramatic stanza).

I would definitely recommend reading or listening to it, it is my favourite poem to perform to an audience. I have kept refreshing it in my memory since I learnt it about 5 years ago because I think it is so brilliant.

Northeastern italian

Stefoland wrote:Here in Argentina it is an oven, I stayed home and have done nothing.

Hello everyone!
Please extend a warm welcome to our newest residents:
Freedoomia, Gadsteiner, Free city of gajnice, and Diagama

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Of weimar wrote:I'm going to introduce the very first Fact Friday. Here's how it will work: I will give you a random topic and you have give me an interesting fact you know about that topic (if you don't know any facts about that topic you can look on Internet or in a book).

The fact topic I would like an interesting fact is Isabella of Castile.

Castille used to be a Roman Kingdom in Spain.

Of weimar

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