Hi All, had a bit of time to myself and started reading some poetry (out of choice!). This was prompted by the centenary of one of our greatest poets (in English anyway), Dylan Thomas. Hadn't read "Do not go Gentle into that Good Night" since I was in school. Reading it again bent me into a few shapes. I've been reading the old love classics by Donne and O'Reilly ("A White Rose"), but chasing poetry on the internet leaves me cold. Does anybody have any particular favourites?

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Jump to PostThe Ancient Mariner is one I like a lot.
Jump to PostThe only poetry I've been able to stomach was Grooks by Piet Hein, unless you count Asimov's Lecherous Limericks.
Jump to PostLike others, I'm not a big buff of poetry. I guess I get my dose of poetry from well-written song lyrics.
English is not my first language, so that plays into it too.
I do remember, however, that during the teenage period when I was a hardcore fan of The …
Jump to PostI'm not much of a fan of poetry. But I recently went out and purchased and read Romeo and Juliet. There's some great stuff in there.
Jump to PostI school we had to read some of Shakespeare's sonnets. I think he wrote 121 of them. Just marvellous! I don't get it how you can create rhyming beauty in such a strict form as a sonnet. You must be a master to be able to do that.
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