early morning
coffee in hand
pounding the pavement
saying hi to everyone
yet no plan
as to where he is going
Tag poetry
Yeah
Oh happy days
Etched in clay
Oh happy days
In a loving way
Bad Poetry
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Blake Poem
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
~ William Blake ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (c. 1803)
To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee –
~Emily Dickinson, c.1879
Dancing is silent poetry. ~ Simonides (556-468bc)
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty of words. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Emotion
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
~ Robert Frost
George Cooper, October’s Party
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came–
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
-George Cooper, October’s Party
Christina Rossetti Poem: Changing Seasons
“January cold and desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.”
~ Christina Rossetti
Autumnal Winds
Wild is the music of autumnal winds
Amongst the faded woods.
~William Wordsworth
John Donne ~ Autumn
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face….
~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal”
John W. Fellows ~ Poem
I want to hear the simmer
Of the old coffee pot;
I want to hear it hummin’
When it’d gettin’ good and hot;
I want to see the vapor rise,
Like incense in the room,
And float about a-fillin’
Every corner with perfume.
~John W. Fellows, “The Old Coffee Pot,”
in The People’s Home Journal, July 1903
Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote
Poem: Walt Whitman, Miracles
“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon…
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring…
What stranger miracles are there?”
– Walt Whitman
Beauty In Words
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry Quote ~ Novalis
Bio: Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
Jamie Lynn Morris Poem
Like butterflies in Spring
Poetry awakens the Spirit,
stirs the imagination and explores
the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings.
~Jamie Lynn Morris
Philosophical Poem
See without looking,
hear without listening,
breathe without asking.
~W.H. Auden
Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Summer Sky
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee
~Emily Dickinson, C.1879
Power
Born: May 29, 1917 – Died: November 22, 1963
The Wind
The wind blew very hard that day
And snatched her petticoat away.
~Gustave Flaubert
Pt III, Ch. VIII – Madame Bovary (1857)
Poetry Is….
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Music
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry, music without the idea is
simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Mr. B-
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation
of beauty of words.
Edgar Allan Poe
Allen Ginsberg Quote On Poetry
Allen Ginsberg On Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti On Poetry
M.D. Waters – Forever
Leonardo da Vinci On Painting
Jack Kerouac On Poetry
Am I A Poet
I have been told be a few
followers of my blog, and
mention they like my poems.
When I was a boy of school
age, I detested poetry,
hated reading and listening
to it.
Back in the 1990s, I bought
an Edgar Allan Poe book with
all of his poems, and short
stories. A friend tried to
nudge me into writing poems,
but found it a struggle, so
I threw in the towel.
Now, its the 21st century
and recently started what
I am tagging them as “Thoughts”
and never consider some of
the posts as being poetry.
What I write is short
snippets of whatever comes
to mind, and if it sounds
like “poetry,” I shall
accept it as poetry.
If anyone says that
I should consider to
put them in book form,
well … that is not
going to happen.
Poetry
Jack Kerouac
March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969
Novelist, Painter, Poet
Don’t use the phone.
People are never ready
to answer it. Use poetry.
A Few Photos Of Hipsters
What ever floats their boats.
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