Poetry Forum

Somebody once told me to shut my mouth – I was just thinking. Was it to stop things getting in, or things coming out? That was when I was a child and people told you what to do. I still think with my mouth open. But they no longer tell me not to. They simply ask why. As if now I’m grown up I might h...

that's really irritating. i don't want to be told what you think is the best poem on the forum. i don't suppose the author would be particularly comfortable with such a tag either. it's patronising, highly subjective and reminds me of being at school. can't we just read each other's work without hav...

he's right, that's fucking beautiful. what website?

thanks, camus. i've never shown that one to anyone before. i suppose it is an insight into the way i think. maybe there are varying degrees of the stalker in all of us but mostly we choose to beat ourselves up about these things instead of acting them out......

that's what i was hoping.... im with you on both counts

i like this a lot. im not sure i get it entirely though....can you offer any readers' support?

lonely hearts club I saw you at the bus station you were wearing a pale blue shirt, cruel blue eyes, whistling blue notes blowing smoke through a casual golden fringe; I remember thinking “he’s the one” I wanted to follow you but then I remembered it probably wasn’t on and anyhow life is far too rea...

I certainly had a lot of fun with beowulf at university - all those thanes and swords with names like "hrunting" - ahh, those were the days.....and also those amazing solitary reflection poems "the wanderer" and "the seafarer" - i'll try and dig them out.
desi

yeah, i love mid-term break and death of a naturalist and that one about driving to the airport whatever it's called. larkin is my favourite though. can i ask you something absalon, do you translate any anglo-saxon poetry?

I like your style swordy; i never quite know whether i am amused or aroused!

thanks. who is edna st vincent millay? i like her name. is she contemporary?

I'm not a host, but I say bring it on baby.....

[I thought seeing as everyone seems to be dabbling in classical form at the moment i'd let you have this one.......] ode to a future lover one hundred percent of the men with whom I’ve slept have fallen in love with me and have worn polo-necks; I would not presume to claim these things are linked, y...

this makes me shiver. i like your repeating that phrase about "human crop", it's very haunting and brutal at the same time. hope you will post some more.

i rather like it too; it's good to be reminded to look up every now and again

thanks both of you, im glad you enjoyed this one. im afraid most of my poems are heavy though....
des

this is really beautiful. thanks

All of my sisters have thyroid disorders they’re trying to pin one on me; I’ve many a problem but that’s not of them – I wish that they’d just let me be Yes all of my sisters have thyroid disorders they’re sure that I’ve got one as well; they took me to hospital now I’m all dropsical – thyroid disor...

Empty like a balloon You fill up my eyes with red tears and press the lids against the glass But it is not really you that does this I am grating my skin To feel this pain more acutely I must add salt, southern comfort, ice When was the last time you drank water? Bloated fish out of water Who hears ...

When he leaves me The sky is in mourning. The day perpetuates itself Into a long grey line of Other days Holes and shapes, Things that are round. Icicles form, That will not melt until his return, An impending peace Weighs upon my soul Causing calm creations. I am as close to happiness as I am ever ...