The Fish, by Elizabeth Bishop
Having it Out with Melancholy, by Jane Kenyon
Poppies, by Mary Oliver
A Color of the Sky, by Tony Hoagland
This is Just to Say, by William Carlos Williams
The Tyger, by William Blake
Salutation, by Ezra Pound
861, by Emily Dickinson
XIV Every Day You Play..., by Pablo Neruda
In the Desert, by Stephen Crane
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8 comments:
Oooh. I almost put that Neruda poem on my list but opted for another.
Nice.
AD,
I love the one you posted too, it's heartbreaking.
This is just to say "This is Just to Say" is a long-time fave. Nice list.
--Peter
nice indeed. but what were the rules again? Poems to sort of "introduce" ourselves, right? That seems hard. I wonder if I'd even have to include some poems I don't like to do that.
hmm.
thanks!
Pack
More, oooh, I almost...
Williams of course. I had to drop it at the last cut.
Bishop's Fish I have seen on alist or two. It is a good choice.
:-)
In the Desert...I'd forgotten about this poem - also one of my favorites. My mom, believe it or not, used to read it to me when I was a kid. Explains why I'm so weird today. Seriously though, almost half of your poems could have been in my top ten...so hard to squeeze everything into ten poems...Take care, Jeannine
Oh my, that's some poem to read to a child! J, our birthdays are next month--we should make those microwave s'mores and celebrate together.
:-)
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