This has been stuck in my mind since I was 16. and I still really like it’s lighthearted spell emerging from the darkness.
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- The raven - Edgar Allan Poe
- the ballad of the reading gaol - Oscar Wilde
- Lady Lazarus - Sylvia Plath
Jun 5, 2025
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probably the poem which inspired me to start writing poetry which has turned out surprisingly well in the end, other favorites (not my own work) include:
”A Regret” - David Trinidad (his collected works are worth picking up)
“Song in my heart” - Diane Seuss
“W B” - Bertolt Brecht
“Return to Lesbos” - Ed Smith
“Dec. 28, 1974” and “A White City” - James Schuyler plus an innumerable more that I can‘t recall since my copy of the collected works is missing
“Good Bones“ - Maggie Smith
“6:22 am” Gerard Malanga
Mar 14, 2024
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first poem i loved and kept with me as a ripe 7th grader. read over and over to the point where it plays in my head, little things will remind me of it - foggy nights in the city or the ocean in winter or pondering my own mortality - and lines come flowing back
others stuck in my noggin include style by charles bukowski and the sunflower sutra by allen ginsberg. at this point i can probably recite a good number of billy collins works bc ive listened to the recorded album "the best cigarette" approximately 500 times
Jun 5, 2024
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arrival of the beebox, lady lazarus, the applicant (plath), heart condition (jehrico brown), miss july grows older (margaret atwood), a martian sends a postcard home (craig raine), i remember (stevie smith) stop me bcos i could go on and on and on
Mar 7, 2024
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Associated with William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Oscar Wilde to name a few. Mainly known as a children’s book illustrator and for his work “Cartoons for the Cause 1886 - 1896”.
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Fortunate enough to watch this on DVD as my parents bought the whole box set they loved it so much.
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