#favourite poems

[abrighterspark]

sound of slow eternal toil churning gears and turning soil planting seeds, leave to ripe end the day feeling wiped

begin again, the next day new another year, another you save the parts you want to keep repair the heart that cracks and creaks

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[drratiosstudent]

List of my favourite poems/poets

*In no particular order*

*As of 1 March 2025*

*For my list of favourite books, manga/hua/hwa/webtoon/anime/others, please check the #WinterLEFavList tag~

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I wrote this for you by Iain S Thomas

If by Rudyard Kipling

Pass on by Michael Lee

Silence by Jared Singer

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

And still we sleep by Dead Poets Society film

Truth by Dead Poets Society film

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Turning Ten by Billy Collins

A Lovely Poem for Lonely Prime Numbers by Harry Baker

The Morning after I killed myself by Shannon Jean

If I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man by Althea Davis

To the young who want to die by by Gwendolyn Brooks

"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaar Alareer

First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller

The highwayman by Alfred Noyes

William Blake Poems

Doomed From The Beginning - written by @/veniennes on tiktok

Brian Bilston poems

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

Maya Angelou

[womens-art]

Lisa Olstein, "Dear One Absent This Long While" from Radio Crackling, Radio Gone

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[youllalwaysfindyourwaybackhome]

The Cuckoo Song/Sumer is i-cumen in (anon. ~1300s)

Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu.

Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu.

Sumer is i-cumen in -

Lhude sing, cuccu!

Groweth sed and bloweth med

And springth the wude nu.

Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb,

Lhouth after calve cu,

Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth -

Murie sing, cuccu!

Cuccu, cuccu.

Wel singes thu, cuccu.

Ne swik thu naver nu!

(copied from The Norton Anthology of Poetry, ed. Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy. *My attempt* at a modern translation to modern English based on their text) below!

Sing, cuckoo, now. Sing, cuckoo.

Sing, cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now.

Summer is coming in -

Loudly sing, cuckoo!

Seed is growing and fields are blooming

And the woods are budding now.

Sing, cuckoo!

Ewes bleat after their lambs,

Cows low after their calves,

Bullocks leap, bucks fart(? contested translation)

Merrily sing, cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo.

You sing well, cuckoo.

Don't ever stop now!

[hairtusk]

[lonelychambersofmyheart]

[soracities]

Hồ Xuân Hương, "Jackfruit" (tr. Natalie Linh Bolderston), pub. Modern Poetry Review [iD'd]

[thesafesexfairy]

I got voice, you got voice

All God's Children got voice.

I'm gonna sing out loud,

Dance and be proud

That it's a blessing,

Not a choice

hey reblog this with a piece of your favorite poem, please

[orpheuslament]

do yall know about this

[girlfictions]

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”

[homosherb]

[metamorphesque]

my favourite poems by ... Anna Akhmatova

I Taught Myself To Live Simply

Everything

Requiem

The Sentence

In Human Closeness There ...

I Wrung My Hands

Last Toast

The Guest

I Was Born In The Right Time

You'll Live, But I'll Not

For Osip Mandelstam

In Dream

Muse

You Will Hear Thunder

To The Many

[ihateyouvishal]

remembering is my love language. whether it be your birthday, your phone number, your favourite movie, your favourite food, your favourite memory, your worst memory, your favourite song, your favourite artist, your favourite cousin, your favourite relative, your favourite friend, everything.