Would you like to share your favorite poems, or song verses?

Asked by nofurbelowsbatgirl (4000 ) 3 months ago

And if you’d like you can even share why you like what you have chosen.

I actually have 4 poems that are my favorite. The first 3 are by the same author. The last one I do not have a link to so I will just type the poem. I really like the depth of the poems and each one speaks to me and has also taught me something bigger.

#1)The Excesses of God

#2)Inscription for a Gravestone

#3)The Bed by the Window
This poem highly interests me because the author Robison Jeffers had chosen the bed as a good death-bed. Jeffers did eventually die in the bed, just as he had planned to, but not until 30 years after he first published the poem.

#4)Larson’s Holstein Bull

Death waits inside us for a door to open.
Death is patient as a dead cat.
Death is a doorknob made of flesh.
Death is that angelic farm girl
gored by the bull on her way home
from school, crossing the pasture
for a shortcut. In the seventh grade
she couldn’t read or write. She wasn’t a virgin.
She was “simpleminded,” we all said.
It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars.
She’s lived in my memory for sixty years.
Death steals everything except our stories.

by:Jim Harrison

I’m looking forward to hearing and learning more amazing stuff provided by you :)