Poem Meme

[amysuemom]

 via hughcasey

When you see this, post your favorite poem.

That is difficult because I have so many so I guess it'r really which one popped into my head today, and that would be this from Emily Dickinson(such a cheery soul she was):

HE fumbles at your spirit  As players at the keysBefore they drop full music on;  He stuns you by degrees,  Prepares your

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[pentane]

What Rough beast
its hour come at last
slouches toward Babylon to be born

[amysuemom]

I have a weakness for Yeats, and have always loved the beginning of that poem:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

[pentane]

The last couplet in that series always amused me most.