I don't think we have a poetry thread going yet so I'll start one. I've been thinking about some that I memorized a while ago lately. I'll start with this one:
God give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds; great hearts, true faith, and ready hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not kill:
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honour; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue,
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog,
In public duty and in private thinking,
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds
Their large professions, and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife - O! Freedom weeps
Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Poem for Kat
Please, No Cookies!
I really love cookies!
I don't hate them - geez!
See, I adore 'em -
and that's the problem!
I love all kinds of cookies,
and those sweet cookies love me!
Cookies love my bum
and cookies love my tum.
Yummy chocolate chips
go straight to my hips,
and spicy gingerbread
makes my back side spread.
Sugar cookies? Please!
They even love my knees.
So don't even believe
that I don't love cookies,
I love them so much
That I can't get enough.
I can't get enough...
I can't get enough...
So please don't give me any,
'Cause I'll just eat them - see?
So please don't give me any...
So please don't give me any...
Because what I really hate
is to be on a diet.
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A Poem for Katherine
In dark of night
the moon does cast
a glimmer from the south
delicate mixture come and go
a present to the mouth
and while so fine
to decline
the present of creation
please excuse the way
of an odd relay
how we kats
show appreciation
meow
That, you see,
is sweet enough for me,
mon cherie!
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
So what do
you eat, fairy feet?
Food, mostly...
Gee, what did ya think?
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What kinda food, duh...
Where do you live?
Hahaha!
Sometimes I crack myself up!
Anyway... hubby and I try to stay away from processed foods and we try to eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. Why do you ask?
And we live in the mid-west & that's all you're gonna get outta me. :p
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
She just wants to make sure you don't eat kats.
hmmm
That's funny, lately I've been concerned about just the opposite...
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Higher Love
Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be
Bring me a higher love...
Where's that higher love, I keep thinking of?
Worlds are turning and we're just hanging on
Facing our fear and standing out there alone
A yearning, and it's real to me
There must be someone who's feeling for me
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be
Bring me a higher love...
Where's that higher love, I keep thinking of?
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love, oh
Bring me a higher love
I could rise above on a higher love
I will wait for it, I'm not too late for it
Until then, I'll sing my song
To cheer the night along
I could light the night up with my soul on fire
I could make the sun shine from pure desire
Let me feel that love come over me
Let me feel how strong it could be
Bring me a higher love...
Where's that higher love, I keep thinking of?
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
re The Higher Love
Sweet!
:)
I forgot to mention "Higher Love" is a 1986 number-one hit song by Steve Winwood!
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every Thought, Word and Deed
With every thought, word and deed
we choose the way we will live,
and each choice affects
our garden, here in Eden.
Every thought is like a prayer;
so we must take care what we conceive,
then be strong in our endeavor,
for as we believe, we will receive.
With every thought, word and deed
we choose the way we will live,
and each choice affects our garden, here in Eden.
Every word is like a seed
and we will reap what we have sown.
A negative word is like a weed
in a garden where love is grown.
With every thought, word and deed
we choose the way we will live,
and each choice affects
our garden, here in Eden.
Every deed is like a chance
to create our reality
and each action helps to balance
how we will spend eternity.
With every thought, word and deed
we choose the way we will live,
and each choice affects our garden, here in Eden.
~ Me
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Dirge of the Joker
Always in the middle of a kiss
Came the profane stimulus to cough;
Always from the pulpit during service
Leaned the devil prompting you to laugh.
Behind mock-ceremony of your grief
Lurked the burlesque instinct of the ham;
You never altered your amused belief
That life was a mere monumental sham.
From the comic accident of birth
To the final grotesque joke of death
Your malady of sacrilegious mirth
Spread gay contagion with each clever breath.
Now you must play the straight man for a term
And tolerate the humor of the worm.
Lol!! :)
I love it, too.
And I hope you don't mind, but I just couldn't help myself:
For the worm has not the tendency to laugh,
and your contagious mirth will be ignored
six feet under, as you realize the gaffe
of thinking that your final dance was over!
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Who's the Author? You?
I love it no matter what.....
For Valentines Day
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile – the winds –
To a heart in port –
Done with the compass –
Done with the chart!
Rowing in Eden –
Ah, the sea!
Might I moor – Tonight –
In thee!
--Emily Dickenson--
Author unknown
The devil is a sly ole fox
and if I could I'd put him in a box
and throw away the key
for the mean ole things he's done to me.
You should have never started this thread ;)
Casabianca
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though childlike form.
The flames roll'd on...he would not go
Without his father's word;
That father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
He call'd aloud..."Say, father, say
If yet my task is done!"
He knew not that the chieftain lay
Unconscious of his son.
"Speak, father!" once again he cried
"If I may yet be gone!"
And but the booming shots replied,
And fast the flames roll'd on.
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,
And looked from that lone post of death,
In still yet brave despair;
And shouted but one more aloud,
"My father, must I stay?"
While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud
The wreathing fires made way,
They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,
They caught the flag on high,
And stream'd above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.
There came a burst of thunder sound...
The boy-oh! where was he?
Ask of the winds that far around
With fragments strewed the sea.
With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part;
But the noblest thing which perished there
Was that young faithful heart.
Author: Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Hemans
I'm trying to get more versed in poetry. My sister loves it but I never got into it as much. I think it's the difference in public vs home school. We never read poetry in public school.
Thanks for posting this one. I read the first few lines in a book but wondered what the full version was.
Here's another favorite:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
Ah this reminds me of a favorite....
I memorized this in the 7th grade and have never forgotten it...
The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
THE DAY is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
You know, I think I must have memorized the last line of that one. I didn't know there was more to it.