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[anotheranon]

When you read this poem, post one of your favorite poems to your LJ.

"Mad World"

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Not my favorite, but this is the last poetry of a sort that stuck with me.

Truth told, I've read little poetry, and don't even listen to music with lyrics that often. Anyone got any recommendations? I'm already intrigued by this sample by Pablo Neruda...

Comments

[geekchick]

Neruda is wonderful.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge poetry fiend, but I do have a fondness for Matthew Arnold and Rudyard Kipling.

If you want a variety of poetry to sample, in order to discover who/what you do and don't like, I'd suggest signing out an anthology from the library. Both Norton (I still have my "Norton anthology of poetry" from college) and Oxford publish excellent poetry collections that feature a mixture of English language poetry from all eras (just type norton anthology ... or oxford anthology ... into the title search to find out what your library has). Or browse the shelves under Dewey numbers 811 (American poetry) and 821 (British poetry, including Scotland, Wales, and Ireland ... Canadian and Australian poetry will probably also be lumped in with the British stuff).

Happy discovering! :-)

P.S. I've included a few poetry books in my Desktop posts over the past year ... I'll try to backtrack and find some of them for you if you'd like.