I don't usually "do" poetry, but
some of these are just lovely.
"Funeral Blues" by WH Auden is one of my all-time favorites. (Who can forget THAT scene in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"?) I particularly love this section:
"He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong."
*sniff* But not all rhyming stuff is about death and misery. Here's another favorite of mine:
"Warning Poem" by Jenny Joseph. Here's a wee taster:
"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit..."
S'funny. It's almost exactly how I see myself in a few decades from now!
Do you have a favorite poem? :)
