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Poetry In Times Like These (Remembering 9-11)

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy, And what dictators do, The el
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Sonnett CXVI by: William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. The complete Sonnets of Shakespeare Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet   Love on the Farm By DH Lawrence What large, dark hands are those at the window Grasping in the golden light Which weaves its way through the evening wind At my heart's delight? Ah, only the
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Easter Poetry

Featured Poems "Living Hope" by Jim Cox "I See His Blood Upon the Rose" by Joseph Mary Plunkett "Easter" by George Herbert   LIVING HOPE by Jim Cox You could almost feel it in the Pre-dawn stillness. A low-keyed throbbing like an Aging refrigerator motor Humming in the darkness. Combat tested muscles tensed Tightly gripping sheathed blades A faint grinding noise Quickly populated the darkness with Multitudes Of imaginary enemies. Pounding__________Beating Hearts Flailed against cages of bone As the massive granite stone Began moving__________faster. Suddenly________a soothing brightness Spilled out of the empty tomb flowing Over the battle-hardened soldiers Like crystal clear water From a faucet Bathing a child's skinned knee. A voice__________ Like the sound of wind chimes said, "He is not here, but is risen____AS HE SAID...." I am He that lives, and was dead; behold, I am alive forevermore. Bible Ref -- Matth
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Cry to a Silent Heaven

There are times when even the strongest believer may feel absent from God, where the soul aches for Him and is not satisfied.   For this theme we look a a few poems dealing with times like these. The Featured Poems "Denial" by George Herbert "I KNOW that He exists" by Emily Dickenson "A Darkening Cell" by Sorrow De LaCroix "Psalm 13" a song of David DENIAL by George Herbert When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ears; Then was my heart broken, as was my verse: My breast was full of fears And disorder: My bent thoughts, like a brittle bow, Did fly asunder: Each took his way; some would to pleasures go, Some to the wars and thunder Of alarms. As good go any where, they say, As to benumb Both knees and heart, in crying night and day, Come, come, my God, O come! But no hearing. O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue To cry to thee, And then not hear it crying! all day long My heart was in my knee, But n
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The Successful Illusion

This selection compares the poem "Richard Cory", by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the song by the same name by Paul Simon, and "Company Car" by Switchfoot, which shares a similar theme with these two poems.   Please feel free to share your thoughts on these poems/songs in the comments below... RICHARD CORY By Edwin Arlington Robinson Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich - yes, richer than a king - And admirably schooled in every grace; In fine we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light,
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Welcome

Welcome to The Poetry Deep, where we take a deep dive into poetry.   This blog has all the old themes from the Poetry Deep website.
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