Poetry Forum

OK.

Reply to this post with your favorite poems from the esteemed poetsgraves poets. I see no reason to restrict this to this year's posts as we did not (to my knowledge) do this last year. SO, open range. This can be a top ten format if you like, or a top one...however you wish it. A few notes:

1. This is not a competition
2. Nor is it a popularity contest
3. Neither should it indicate any sort of bias beyond preference based on the quality of the poem.
4. Lastly, include in your list a maximum of one of your own posts: this is not about drawing attention to yourself.

This should be fun.

Cheers all,

Keith

Ahhhhhhhhh who can resit a Top Ten.

What's the best way to find all posts?

I suppose for lack of a better way, you can search any particular member at a time, and search his posts. It may take a while, but hey, there's no deadline and we're staring at a weekend...

This is impossible: I've just been through the stuff posted since I joined, and found 29 contenders.

Not impossible. Merely daunting. I'm going to have a go tonight.

I suppose a quick start would be to peruse the featured poems. As they are voted for people by the people, obviously many fine poems have not been included, but it's a start.

Here are my picks, subjecting to retooling:

The beach, by camus
Tigers, by desiderata
England’s Green and Pleasant, by Leslie
Chiclayo Sky, by lemur
Lighthouse, by camus
The train to work, by Arcadian
Bravery, by that girl
Picnic in September, by k-j
From a cloud, by pseud
Will-o’-the-Wisp, by cameron

And a favorite of my own:

Peat bog processional, by Bombadil


Happy searching.

Cheers,

Keith

Okay, looking only at poems posted since I joined or thereabouts, here are ten I think really bear rereading:

Chiclayo Sky (Lemur)
A Year Among Vines (Bombadil)
Aunt Irene's Late Night Phone Call (Arco)
Upon Showing my Girlfriend my Hometown (pseud)
Finally Useful (camus)
Men and Stones (minstrel)
Moscow to St Petersburg (Leslie)
Notes Pinned to Fridge Doors (dillingworth)
Bicycles (pseud)
Tripping (camus)

Honorable mentiones to barrie and william who each had a couple of near misses.

These are the poems that, thinking back, hit me where it mattered. I know for sure I've neglected some, so as Keith said "subjecting to retooling:"

Jen (TG) - viewtopic.php?t=628&highlight=jen
Scrambled Eggs (Desiderata) - viewtopic.php?t=1422
The Dripping Tap (Cameron) - viewtopic.php?t=1435
A year among vines (Bombadil) - viewtopic.php?t=1891
Acne (Pseud) - viewtopic.php?t=1454
Chain smoker (Azathoth) - viewtopic.php?t=456&highlight=chain+smoker
Iron lakes (Moose) - viewtopic.php?t=436
Chiclayo Sky (Lemur) - viewtopic.php?t=2007
Seeing the world (KJ) - viewtopic.php?t=1593
Nike ? (Arco) Couldn't find it but it was for the last comp we had.

Severely neglected poets:

Leslie
Macavity
PB
Dillingworth
Minstrel
Barrie
F8

my favourite posts with no specific order

Eclipse(Camus)
what we did before dark (That Girl)
Chiclayo Sky (lemur)
Bonfire Night (lemur)
A Year Among Vines (Bombadil)
Picnic in September(K-J)
From a cloud (pseud)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (cameron)
Men and Stones (minstrel)
blind rag (barrie)


close call for : dillingworth, leslie, william and saul

cheers
Arco

my favs:

Tripping by Kris
Jen by that girl
Zen and the Art of Submitting Poetry by cameron
The Walls of Troy by Leslie
The Bastard by Keith
The Train To Work by Arcadian
Eclipse by Kris
Stone Circle by Leslie
Midnight snack postponed, problem occurred when attempting to leave bedroom. by that girl
The Great Escape by darkshines

As to not make this too repetitive, honorable mentions not already mentioned by others:

Alone again Aura by Kris
viewtopic.php?t=1434

A Painful Love by Kris
viewtopic.php?t=1429

The Bastard by Keith
viewtopic.php?t=1433

Freestyle Walking by Keith
viewtopic.php?t=1395

No Ozone by Arcadian
viewtopic.php?t=1890

encouraging autumn by that girl
viewtopic.php?p=6417&highlight=#6417

Zen and the Art of Submitting Poetry by cameron
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycam ... poetry.htm

Stone Circle by Leslie
viewtopic.php?p=5049&highlight=#5049

Heavenly by Leslie
viewtopic.php?t=1432

The Corn-mill by barrie
viewtopic.php?t=1965

Trams and Strassenbahns by barrie
viewtopic.php?t=1972

Zeitgeist by Virago
viewtopic.php?t=1149

The Great Escape by darkshines
viewtopic.php?t=1763

Picnic in September by kj
viewtopic.php?t=1794

Pork Girl by BlueforaQuarter
viewtopic.php?t=1496

Clearly, I could not make up my mind.

This has been great fun. I'd forgotten a lot of these gems were even here...

Hello everyone,

Just started a new job so have been absent from the boards recently but to come back and find this topic was great. I'd forgotton just what great stuff was on the boards.

As for a favourite poem; the one that spings to mind from recent months is:

What we did before dark by that girl (without doubt)

then in no particular order:

Notes pinned to a fridge door by dillingworth
fridge magnets by sandbanx
Our kiss by Notrebaise
Stranded by Camus

Still consdiering what will be added to make up the top ten. might even find others to replace the above. Still going through bombadils considerable output to find a favourite there. Any for now better get back to work before I'm fired.

Hope everyone is well.

F8

I know this is a bit off beat but the funniest thing on the forum (in my opinion) has got to be kj's parody of Duncan's biography.

http://poetsgraves.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1730

Cam

ps tg should really have had more featured poems I feel.

bah.

thanks guys.

.tg.

you and your bah.


No, no it doesn't, but you certainly are our most worthy prodigy. I'd say it's deserved.

-K.

Another I had forgotten -

Perdition by Keith (Bombadil)

viewtopic.php?t=624