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Seventy-Seven Reasons Why I Love Poetry

Fri Nov 7, 2008, 6:05 AM
"The Power of Rhyme" by John Hegley
"Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Anonymous
"That the Science of Cartography is Limited" by Eavan Boland
"Priest Accused of Not Wearing Condom" by Paul Durcan
"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" by Edward Lear
"That Old-Time Religion" by Peter Didsbury
"On the Pavement" by John Hegley
"In all ten directions of the universe..." by Ryokan
"Bloody Men" by Wendy Cope
"Prayer Before Birth" by Louis Macneice
"Let Me Die a Young Man's Death" by Roger McGough
"If you look for the truth outside yourself" by Tung-Shan
"Presences" by Zoe Karelli
"To That Which Is Most Important" by Anna Swir
"Uncle and Auntie" by John Hegley
"Monkey" by Matthew Sweeney
"Fundamentals" by Ian Duhig
"Minus Three Point Six" by Geoff Hattersley
"The Same Inside" by Anna Swir
"Why I Am Not a Buddhist" by Molly Peacock
"Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford
"The Meaning of Life" by Ian McMillan
"Missing God" by Dennis O'Driscoll
"College Days" by John Hegley
"God Says Yes To Me" by Kaylin Haught
"Prayer" by Galway Kinnell
"My real dwelling" by Ikkyu
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"Love after Love" by Derek Walcott
"Ozymandias of Egypt" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Me" by Chairil Anwar
"Things" by Fleur Adcock
"Four AM" by Wislawa Szymborska
"Faith" by Czeslaw Milosz
"Michiko Dead" by Jack Gilbert
"The Lull" by Molly Peacock
"The Story We Know" by Martha Collins
"Something About the Trees" by Linda Pastan
"Not Writing" by Jane Kenyon
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen
"Do You Want a Chicken Sandwich" by Norman Stock
"Credo" by Steve Kowit
"Asking for Directions" by Linda Gregg
"Poem in My Mother's Voice" by Susan Browne
"Bad Dog" by John Hegley
"Hope" by Czeslaw Milosz
"One Day When We Were Getting Out Our Rough Books" by John Hegley
"The Zen of Housework" by Al Zolynas
"The Dead" by Susan Mitchell
"Remember" by Christina Rossetti
"Twelve Songs (#9)" by W H Auden
"Death, the Last Visit" by Marie Howe
"Having It Out With Melancholy" by Jane Kenyon
"This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin
"Where You Go When She Sleeps" by T R Hummer
"Feared Drowned" by Sharon Olds
"Love" by Czeslaw Milosz
"When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver
"April Fools" by John Hegley
"Nothing Is Lost" by Dana Gioia
"Autobiography in Five Short Chapters" by Portia Nelson
"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
"God Speaks to Each of Us" by Rainer Maria Rilke
"The Good News" by Thich Nhat Hanh
"September Twelfth, 2001" by X J Kennedy
"Breaking" by Wendell Berry
"Buddha in Glory" by Rainer Maria Rilke
"The Guest House" by Rumi
"What I Know" by Joyce Woodward
"Valentine" by Wendy Cope
"The Kiss" by John Fuller
"We who are your closest friends..." by Phillip Lopate
"I Go Back To May 1937" by Sharon Olds
"Chalk and Cheese" by John Hegley
"On the Impossibility of Staying Alive" by Ian McMillan
"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
"To be great, be whole..." by Fernando Pessoa

  • Mood: Distracted
  • Listening to: In Rainbows by Radiohead
  • Reading: The Illuminatus! Trilogy (again)
  • Watching: Heroes
  • Playing: Spore
  • Eating: Wispas
  • Drinking: Not enough water

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  • Current Residence: Bradford, UK
  • Interests: Literature, cinema, music, sci-fi, martial arts, philosophy, and general weirdness
  • Favourite movie: Fight Club, Contact, Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Matrix Trilogy et al.
  • Favourite band or musician: Everything from Portishead to Beethoven, by way of Frank Zappa
  • Favourite genre of music: Film scores and ambient music
  • Favourite artist: Off the top of my head; Escher, Hockney, Giger, R Crumb, Daniel Clowes...
  • Favourite poet or writer: John Hegley, Iain Banks, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Philip Pullman et al.
  • Operating System: Any old version of Windows or RISC OS 4.0. Old skool!
  • MP3 player of choice: Sony Digital Walkman
  • Favourite game: Classic Doom series, Metal Gear Solid series, Tekken series, Burnout Revenge
  • Favourite gaming platform: PS2, PC, ye olde Sega Megadrive and Acorn Archimedes
  • Favourite cartoon character: Dr. Zoidberg, Ralph Wiggum, Fillerbunny
  • Personal Quote: "Never moon a werewolf."
  • Tools of the Trade: Fresh air and a cup of tea

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:iconmetroboy:
Hallo! How're you?

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'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought' - Percy Bysshe Shelley (from 'To a Skylark' )

'As long as humans roam its surface, the Earth will never truly be at peace'

'Awl my spelling misteaks arr typoes, honist'
:icondemongeek:
A good friend convinced me to sign up on Facebook. I have fallen to the dark side. Forgive me, my friends.

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God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. :meditate:
:icona-new-begining:
Goodness, where have you been?!

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"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."
:icona-new-begining:
Thanks bunches!

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"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."
:icondemongeek:
"Lacking" has been removed. :)

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God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. :meditate:
:icona-new-begining:
Don't tell me that the world revolves around me. I'll start to believe it and I'll throw off the entire orbit of the Solar System. :)

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"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."
:icondemongeek:
There seems to be a fair bit of heartbreak amidst my DA friends of late. :(

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God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. :meditate:
:icondoversole:
Thanks for the hug. It's all gone a bit shit - if you thought things were bad when thelastlight and I split up, they are far worse with sugarydave. Ah well, feelings come and feelings go.

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A good pun is its own re-word.
:icondemongeek:
I'm here to give a hug anytime you need one - at least in spirit, which is what counts, I suppose. :hug: So... Yeah.

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God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. :meditate:
:icondemongeek:
People around here seem to have gone spookily quiet since I clarified my nerdier leanings. :) Maybe if I actually produce something of substance instead of just waffle.

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God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. :meditate:

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