was there a particular poem that you loved at one point in your life?

When I was in high school, a guy friend wrote a poem in my school journal. For some reason, I still haven't forgotten the lines. Here it goes.. I talk to the trees but they don't listen to me I talk to the stars but they never hear me The wind has the time to stop and hear what I say I talked to them all in vain. Then suddenly my words reached someone else's heart Touched someone else's heartstrings too I tell you my love, And while you're listening to me I fin'lly see them come true.

If You Think You're Beaten by Kriston If you think you're beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't, It's almost for sure, you won't. If you think you're losing, you've lost. For out in the world we find - Success begins with a person's will, It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are, You've got to think high to rise. You have to stay with it, In order to win the prize. Life's battles don't always go, To the one with the better plan. For more often than not, you will win, If only you think you can.

I've been touch by a poem wrote by Sapardi Djoko Damono and indonesia artis It's goes like this : Aku Ingin aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada in english : I want to I want to love you plainly; with words which get not opportunity to be spoken from the wood to the fire who make him into ashes I want to love you plainly; with the sign that get not delifered from the cloud to the rain who make him gone. short like that :D

I love that poem, too! It is an excellent translation. Thanks much for sharing it here! You might like this one, too. Although familiar to many, like the epitaph you mentioned, this one by Ella Wheeler Wilcox has a timelessness: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone: For this stolid old earth Has need of your mirth, It has troubles enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will echo it: Sigh, and it's lost on the air; For they want full measure Of all your pleasure, But nobody wants your care. Feast, and your halls are crowded, Fast, and they'll pass you by; Succeed and give, And they'll let you live, But fail - and they'll let you die.

There's one poem that i like, and when i 1st heard it, it just touches me and it's so real.. But it's been so long i last heard it.. But it's from the movie, In Her shoes, when cameron diaz recite to her sister on the day of her sister's wedding.. hehe ^_^

I cannot remember the poem but the one phrase to reach out and touch the face of God it was written by a pilot and is about beauty of flying I am sure you must remember it but it was a favorite of mine. also Carl Frosts two ways in the woods.

I made one for a truely young love I met many years ago! She was younger than me by 7 years, I was in was already preparing to do University entry exams in High school, she was just joining first year in Hight school, I loved her so much I thought I would do anything to wait for her until she was a full woman ready to marry me. She diddnt marry me after all-She couldnt even finish high school-it was one hot misplaced love, because the beautiful little girl later turned out to be nun, she simply put off marriage from her agenda in life. I sent her this poem as i joined university; I wish everyday for things impossible for you Like Holding the sun in my hands for you Like Throwing a full blue moon at you Like walking around with you in jungle Feeling good and Lucky with you My Lucky Gal If I said I didn’t love you If I said I didn’t care about you If I said I didn’t dream about you If I said I didn’t wish you the heavens I would be a liar Lying to my conscience and to My Lucky Gal Hear me now Lucky You the Gal of Luck Even if it hurts Close your eyes Cross the red line Pick me up oh Gal Even if for just a Lucky while For Just a little Lucky while My Lucky Gal?

i've always loved the footprints poem One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there were one set of footprints. This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat I could see only one set of footprints. So I said to the Lord, "You promised me Lord, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there have only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most,you have not been there for me?" The Lord replied, "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand,is when I carried you."

I have always loved the poem entitled INVICTUS. I got to know the poem when I was in 1st year high school and since then I have never forgotten it. A lot of things that has happened in my life, the chances that I have taken, the decisions that I have made which speaks of the message of the poem. Invictus by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903 Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

I loved the poems I composed back in high school for my first love but I guess those poems are but memories.I know I have to move on now.

My favourite poem goes like this. . . As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away! -author unknown.

just thought i would share that poert.com is a great site to publish your poems and to read other poems people have written.enjoy.

what a great discussion secretbear! i like your poem a lot...One of my favorites is the love song of J. Alfred Prufolk...it is too long to post here, but here is the link http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html I also like a lot of walt whitman poetry...(also much too much to post here!) Another one I like is "God's World" by Edna St. Vincent Millay... O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists that roll and rise! Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff! World, World, I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all, But never knew I this; Here such a passion is As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year. My soul is all but out of me, let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. I got into her after a friend of mine mailed me a tiny piece of paper with this quote of her's on it: “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” I have kept this quote in the back of my head for the longest time... There are so many good poems out there...this site will keep any poetry lover entertained for hours: http://poets.org I have written some 3000 poems now...they are all awful...i put some on my helium page and so far no one has really liked them, lol. None of them even earned a penny so far! My hubby has one of his degrees in literature...even he doesn't like them!

I love poems. Most of the time, I can spend hours on my computer just browsing on fiction press for them. My most favorite would have to be "I Carry Your Heart" by E.E. Cummings. But that was mentioned already. I also like poems by Edgar Allan Poe, especially alone. I especially like the last line in that one. But there is this one poem from the movie 10 Things I Hate About You that really stuck with me for a while. It goes as follows: I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme. I hate the way you're always right, I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly, I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close not even a little bit not even at all.

yes i have, specially when my father lift us, and go to another woman i wrote, i never post to any website but i keep it to me till know the writen note book is with me, sorry for not sharing because it make cry when i will start all over again.

Well, when i was a student I first read Masc of anarchy by Peter Bysh Shelly, it is absolutely amazing and quite a wonderful statement about politics in early 19th century England. It ends with the Stanza, Men of England rise from slumber in unvanquishable number break the chains that, when in sleep, fell on you ye are many, they are few stiring stuff indeed, a veritable inspiration blessed be

i do like poems..that was when im still in grade school and sad to say i cant hardly remember them..and i appreciate those people who likes poems..

What to say about the poems that i adored, loved, and cherish in my minds.. You know,after, reading this topic now, i had two thoughts in my mind. 1) whether to reproduce a best poem that i have read, as i am an ardent fan of Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats.. 2) Whether to reproduce one good poem that i have written.So i took the diary in which i have written all these poems and started reading, infact started to chose the best one, and to reproduce here.. and.. i was reading my entire writing for more than half-an-hour, and net result my computer turned to screen saver mode... it was hard for me to pick one... i ended up closing the diary, with a wonder or surprise, Oh! were these lines written by me... Take care friend:)

Hi, I like all the poems shared in this discussion particularly the one about a girl who become a nun by academic2. There is one poem which I liked when I was a kid but don't remember the wordings. Will try to recollect from my memories. Thanks for sharing such lovely poems here. Nice day!

When I was a child my gram use to read me a book called things that go bump in the night and in the front cover was an old scottish prayer/poem .. I loved it them and stil do it's short and simple and to the point. From ghoulies to ghosties and three legged beasties and things that go bump in the night good lord deliver us.