Poems Please

[imaginethat]

What's your favorite poem?

[CaliforniaNow]

HellooOOOooo. . .I do so totally agree!  Everybody's got to be somewhere. . .or sumwhers, as that saying goes.

[CaliforniaNow]

Phizzog
                  by Carl Sandburg

                                    This face you got,
                                    This here phizzog you carry around,
                                    You never picked it out for yourself,
                                        at all, at all - did you?
                                    This here phizzog-somebody handed it
                                        to you - am I right?
                                    Somebody said, "Here's yours, now go see
                                        what you can do with it."
                                    Somebody slipped it to you and it was like
                                        a package marked:
                                    "No goods exchanged after being taken away."
                                    This face you got.

[officerripley]

Sorry this repeats and in such big font but can't for the life of me figure how to fix it, edit button won't work, sorry.

Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there]
by Hughes Mearns

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...

ANTIGONISH [I met a man who wasn't there]

  by Hughes Mearns

Yesterday, upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn't there

He wasn't there again today

I wish, I wish he'd go away...

When I came home last night at three

The man was waiting there for me

But when I looked around the hall

I couldn't see him there at all!

Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!

Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair

A little man who wasn't there

He wasn't there again today

Oh, how I wish he'd go away...

[LoveLife&Laughter]

[CaliforniaNow]

http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/int/evolution.html

Try this one - it's funny and sweet and very, very well-written.

You may already know it.  "When you were a tadpole and I was a fish. . . . ."  Ring a bell?

[Ladysilverbird]

Well my all time favorite is:

Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

Trees

I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,	5
And lifts her leafy arms ;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.	10
Poems are made by like me,
But only God can make a tree.