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[Waeponwifestre]

Some of Tolkien’s poetry, mostly because I think he’s really pretty underrated as a poet and writer in general. Halfway thinking of making a post expounding on this shortly.

I Sit Beside the Fire and Think

Errantry

The Ring Verse (this is the one I think is most fascinating and want to write about most once I’ve organized my thoughts)

 

[mousberry]

Yonder see the morning blink:
The sun is up, and up must I,
To wash and dress and eat and drink
And look at things and talk and think
And work, and God knows why.

Oh often have I washed and dressed
And what's to show for all my pain?
Let me lie abed and rest:
Ten thousand times I've done my best
And all's to do again.

By A.E Housman

 

[SapioSexual9]

The Pond by Amy Lowell

 

[SapioSexual9]

Two poems Anticipation & A Gift by Amy Lowell.

 

[42BelowsBack]

Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón

 

[42BelowsBack]

Ada Limón poems Link to her selections.

 

[Angeline]

Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes, 1935

 

[Angeline]

I Am Waiting, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 

[Angeline]

33rd Poem On Air, Terrance Hayes

 

[Angeline]

Cowpunk by Diane Seuss

 

[Angeline]

Prologue---And Then She Owns You by Patricia Smith

 

[Angeline]

What do I say next? Fast. On Ted Berrigan's Exuberant and Idiosyncratic Prose by Jordan Davis

 

[42BelowsBack]

(Translated) The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska

 

[42BelowsBack]

(Translated) Poems by Wislawa Szymborska

( First 4 and last four lines of Lot’s Wife).

 

[Hotcoffee123]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in