I don't have any to read,since I haven't made time to read poetry.
In terms of I wrote,what struck me was the line:Ignorance is an insult to intelligence.
I wrote this back in high school and even performed this at an open mic night.
As first poetry mic night,least for me,was incredible.
I don't perform as much as I use too,but remember that poem being so cool I ended up having a fan that night.
And I made a promise to autograph first physical copy of poetry book.
And send to them.
FYI,my first poetry book will be digital exclusive,so only digital.
My second book will be in physical form.
Dates are yet to be determine.
Any favorites Covers???That you read and/or written???
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before but I would say my favourite lines from any poem would have to be the following from 'The Tyger', one of the first poems by Blake I read:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
In brief summary, the speaker struggles to understand how God could create something so pure and gentle like a lamb, yet is also the creator of something so vicious and powerful, such as the tiger.
Also, Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' is probably one of the greatest poems to ever come out of the Beat Generation, and the below is a fantastic introduction to the epic tragi-romance that 'Howl' is:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...
Now you made remember, when I was at school all those decades ago I liked bellbirds by Henry Kendall. Bellbird and let's pray their habitat is not totally destroyed by the modern money grabbers have a really sweet high call, at dusk they sound like church bells.
Verse 1
By channels of coolness the echoes are calling
And down the dim gorges I hear the creek falling
It lives in the mountain, where moss and the sedges
Touch with their beauty the banks and the ledges;
Through brakes of the cedar and sycamore bowers
Struggles the light that is love to the flowers
And, softer than slumber, and sweeter than singing
The notes of the bellbirds are running and ringing
It was written in 19th century not sure of the of the year by brakes he means breaks it is archaic spelling. I would say it with the timing of choral piece but my voice is too low to do a good
I use you tube which has 2 renditions of the poem
If by Rudyard Kipling read by Michael Caine on channel Upgrade your mindset
I prefer this reading. You can also find it on https:/teacherluke.co.uk
The other YouTube reading is If by Rudyard Kipling (A Life Changing Poem) read by Shane Morris on RedFrost
Of late I have been listening to classic poems being read on Spotify, favourite verse at present is rudyard kiplings 'If'. My favourite because 'if always ambiguous is little used it may be deleted from