Poetry Day

[meganiwish]

Do none of you have any poetry in your souls?  All right, limericks.  To my mind Marge Simpson has stolen 'best first line of a novel' with 'There was a young girl from Nantucket...'  Edward Lear, who invented the form, was extraordinarily bad at it.  Take this one:

There was an old person from Chile,

Whose conduct was perfectly silly.

He sat on the stairs,

Eating apples and pears,

That imprudent old person from Chile.

Prize of a kiss from me if you come up with a better last line.

[meganiwish]

Oh come on, chaps.  I'd have brushed my teeth and everything.

The obvious, for the American, is The Raven. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48860 Given the date.  But I'm going to give you one that is a favourite of mine, I being a slugabed.  We've met John Donne before, I think. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/44129 When I was young and beautiful there were men who thought that,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3cVY1JESQ           If Bob Dylan's a poet, how much more so is Kate Bush?

[Shyheels]

Or Joni Mitchell

At least as deserving of a Nobel Prize

[meganiwish]

Yes.  Blue is beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5782PQO5is  Have you heard the two versions of Both Sides Now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbn6a0AFfnM andhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYu4EHq0Lo   The same words that capture both ends of life, that explain how we're the same person but different.  Thank you, Shyheels, you crowned my thread and let it sail away.