Poems of the Night

[cinaed]

Okay, snippets from various poems, but I've included them in my various McKay/Zelenka stories. *beams* And they're prettiful.

Tell me
That your eyes do not search for me
In a crowd
And I shall say to you
That my heart does not miss a beat
When I see you

~"Let's Be Discreet" by Amanda Townsend
Link to Full Poem

I'm sorry I'm falling all over myself in these
sonnets, I'd rather be falling all over you.
Do you know? Am I telling you? The view
from up here is beautiful but confusing.

~"The Cut Glass Sonnet" by Everette Maddox
Link to the Full Poem

Yes, I have a thousand tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
Though I strive to use the one,
It will make no melody at my will,
But is dead in my mouth.

~"Yes, I have a thousand tongues" by Stephen Crane
Link to the Full Poem

Somewhere, Dover Beach
maybe, something fragile
and afraid is trying to last
forever.

~"Of Fashion" by Everette Maddox
Link to the Full Poem

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

~"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
Link to the Full Poem

I understood the rest too well,
And all their thoughts have come to be
Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell
Of a sunny shallow sea.

But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.

~"Understanding" by Sara Teasdale
Link to the Full Poem

The moon comes around, though. I want to
drag it down and hand it to you and say, "Here,
this is lovely and useless and it cost me
a lot of trouble. You can tie it up on
the river behind your house, and go down to
look at it whenever you like."

~"Moon Fragment" by Everette Maddox
Link to the Full Poem

Comments

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

Links to full poems would be nice.

Also, have you read Dana Gioia or Kate Northrop?

[cinaed.livejournal.com]

Edited the entry so you have the links to all of the poems. :)

No, I haven't. *will have to go look at some of their works*

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

Ah thank you.

And links for links:

Dana Gioia
http://www.danagioia.net/poems/index.html

I highly rec his "Litany"

This is a litany of lost things,
a canon of possessions dispossessed,
a photograph, an old address, a key.
It is a list of words to memorize
or to forget–of amo, amas, amat,
the conjugations of a dead tongue
in which the final sentence has been spoken.

But all of his poems are worth reading.

Kate Northrop
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/30/
http://www.aprweb.org/issues/jan03/northrop.html (a poem the other link missed)

Definitely read "Iowa and Other Accidents" and "Affair with Various Endings."

Am always happy to find others who enjoy poetry. I like to exchange poems for poems.

[cinaed.livejournal.com]

*ignores the fact that I need to study for my art test and goes to read the poems*

Thanks so much for the links. It's so hard to find other people who read poems for pleasure, isn't it?

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

It really, really is.