That one piece of poetry(or song lyric) that blows you away...

[rt052192]

I feel as though there is that one poet/poem/play whether it be an actual poem or maybe just a song/play line(s) that simply blows us away. Poetry can speak volumes and I'm just curious as to what is your favorite poet/poem and why.

For me my favorite poet is Robert Frost. I usually despise poetry in all forms other than song lyrics, but something about Frost gives me the chills. Other poetry that I enjoy includes Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, and Caesar. So I enjoy epic poems I guess...

Here's my favorite poem by Frost:

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Why I like this specific poem: the flow is awesome and it just sums up life in general; nothing gold can stay.

 

[delet]

Hmmm... Lets go with Tarja's 'Boy and the Ghost'

Every time I listen to it intently I get shivers down my spine.

 

[Layzor]

I know it's as mainstream as it comes but:

"To be or not to be..."

 

[Marter]

"You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid"

Lights - Lions!

"All my work and endless measures
Never seen to get me very far
Walk a mile just to move an inch now
Even though I'm trying so damn hard"

3 Doors Down - Duck and Run

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I feel as though there is that one poet/poem/play whether it be an actual poem or maybe just a song/play line(s) that simply blows us away. Poetry can speak volumes and I'm just curious as to what is your favorite poet/poem and why.

For me my favorite poet is Robert Frost. I usually despise poetry in all forms other than song lyrics, but something about Frost gives me the chills. Other poetry that I enjoy includes Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, and Caesar. So I enjoy epic poems I guess...

Here's my favorite poem by Frost:

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Why I like this specific poem: the flow is awesome and it just sums up life in general; nothing gold can stay.

I read that in The Outsiders. Good piece.

 

[Rasputin1]

"No need to die to true a lie"
By Nightwish.

 

[Blatherscythe]

The Divine Comedy, the most twisted yet intruiging piece of poetry I know of.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

"hello" by Evanescence.

 

[Gardenclaw]

"Give me something good to die for, To make it beautiful to live". QOTSA. Couldn't agree more.

 

[rt052192]

"Give me something good to die for, To make it beautiful to live". QOTSA. Couldn't agree more.

Queens of the Stone Age have some of the most amazing/strange lyrics ever. If you already haven't check out Kyuss, they're great.

 

[joinchoir]

I feel as though there is that one poet/poem/play whether it be an actual poem or maybe just a song/play line(s) that simply blows us away. Poetry can speak volumes and I'm just curious as to what is your favorite poet/poem and why.

For me my favorite poet is Robert Frost. I usually despise poetry in all forms other than song lyrics, but something about Frost gives me the chills. Other poetry that I enjoy includes Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, and Caesar. So I enjoy epic poems I guess...

Yes, how fleeting the beauty in life can be. I set this to music for my High School Choir on the occasion of the death of my nephew. go to www.myspace.com/giffordchoirs and click on Nothing Gold-Senzig to hear it.

Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Chamale]

"Man doth not yield himself unto the Angels, nor unto Death itself, save only through the weakness of his own feeble will." That one line. To choose a whole poem though, I'd say Beowulf or The Raven.

Hwaet! We gardena in geardagum,
Theodcyninga thrym gefrunon,
Hu tha aethelingas ellen fremedon!


And the raven, never flitting
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door.
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming
And the lamplight o'er him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow
That lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore.

 

[rt052192]

I feel as though there is that one poet/poem/play whether it be an actual poem or maybe just a song/play line(s) that simply blows us away. Poetry can speak volumes and I'm just curious as to what is your favorite poet/poem and why.

For me my favorite poet is Robert Frost. I usually despise poetry in all forms other than song lyrics, but something about Frost gives me the chills. Other poetry that I enjoy includes Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, and Caesar. So I enjoy epic poems I guess...

Yes, how fleeting the beauty in life can be. I set this to music for my High School Choir on the occasion of the death of my nephew. go to www.myspace.com/giffordchoirs and click on Nothing Gold-Senzig to hear it.

Thanks for reminding me.

your welcome, just doin my job...

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
Everyone you meet
All that you slight
Everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

There is no dark side of the moon really.
Matter of fact it's all dark.



I sometimes just put this song on repeat all day. Simply incredible.

 

[elementsoul]

A Plateful of our Dead by Protest the Hero by far.

Spoiler: the lyrics

Don't ever ask us to define our morals
Sometimes when fundamentals meet teenage heartbreak
Some of us are all of us; half-selves that love whole hopes
And hara-kiri heartbreak

There's almost nothing worse than never being real
Strained voices crying wolf when nobody can hear
If I had a gun I'd pump your ethics full of lead
If I believed in meat I'd eat a plateful of our dead

There's merit in construction when it's done with your own hands
There's beauty in destruction, resurrection, another chance
There's a you and I in union but just an I in our beliefs
There's a crashing plane with a banner that reads everyone's naive

The only proof that I have that we shot and killed this horse
Is the sounds of whips on flesh and a bleeding heart remorse
When I'm In this state of reflection and you hand me whips
And two by fours I could never bring them down and beat the same horse as before

I'd rather kill a stupid flower and spread its seeds
Until a garden with our bullet-laden morals will be found

 

[MellowFellow]

"Simply because you can breathe,
doesn't mean you're alive,
or that you really live."

Rise Against- Black Masks and Gasoline

 

[Gardenclaw]

"Give me something good to die for, To make it beautiful to live". QOTSA. Couldn't agree more.

Queens of the Stone Age have some of the most amazing/strange lyrics ever. If you already haven't check out Kyuss, they're great.

Yay for Kyuss, been into them for a long time. It was actually Kyuss i got into first but normally its the other wat round. If i could only ever listen to one band agsin it would be them.

 

[rt052192]

"Give me something good to die for, To make it beautiful to live". QOTSA. Couldn't agree more.

Queens of the Stone Age have some of the most amazing/strange lyrics ever. If you already haven't check out Kyuss, they're great.

Yay for Kyuss, been into them for a long time. It was actually Kyuss i got into first but normally its the other wat round. If i could only ever listen to one band agsin it would be them.

Ya, I think I like QOTSA more, but Kyuss is just so trippy and epic it makes me want to cry. They are simply awesome.