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    Hey guys, I know we had threads where we posted lyrics, but did we have one for poems?

    here's one I read today.
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    RISK

    To laugh is to risk appearing the fool;
    To weep is to risk appearing sentimental;
    To reach out for another is to risk involvement
    To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self.

    To place your ideas and your dreams
    before the crowd is to risk their loss
    To love is to risk not being loved in return
    To live is to risk dying
    To hope is to risk despair
    To try is to risk failure.

    But risk must be taken,
    because the greatest hazard in life
    is to risk nothing
    The person who risks nothing, does nothing,
    has nothing and is nothing.

  • #2
    All time favorite



    IF

    by Rudyard Kippling



    If you can keep your head

    when all about you are losing theirs

    And blaming it on you.

    If you can trust yourself

    when all men doubt you

    But make allowance for their doubting too.

    If you can dream and not make dreams your master.

    If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.

    If you can meet with triumph and disaster.

    And treat those two impostors just the same.

    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken

    And stoop and build'em up with worn out tools.

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss

    And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss.

    If you can force your heart, and nerve, and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone

    And so "hold on" when there is nothing on you

    except the will which says to them "hold on!"

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue

    Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch.

    If neither foe nor loving friend can hurt you.

    If all men count with you ... but none too much.

    If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    with sixty seconds worth of distant run.

    Yours is the earth, and everything that's in it.

    And which is more ... You'll be a Man, my son.

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    • #3
      We do have a "Poetry Corner", authored by Anonymouse, and not myself, as he has mentioned twice already, haha, but it was meant for poetry written by the forum members themselves, so I suppose this thread can be dedicated to poetry written by others that triggered some type of emotion in us.

      Nice poem, by the way. Very true.

      However, to risk...it's easier said than done.

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      • #4
        ***

        Tag mig. - Håll mig. – Smek mig sakta.
        Famna mig varligt en liten stund.
        Gråt ett grand – för trista fakta.
        Se mig med ömhet sova en blund.
        Gå ej ifrån mig. – Du vill ju stanna,
        stanna tills själv jag måste gå.
        Lägg din älskade hand på min panna.
        Än en liten stund är vi två.

        ***

        (Harriet Löwenhjelm)

        It is a very nice poem in swedish, maybe some of you will understand it ...Patlajan?
        Last edited by Artsakhtsi; 01-07-2004, 02:39 AM.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by spiral All time favorite



          IF

          by Rudyard Kippling


          This poem is one of my favorites as well, but I like the Armenian version much better.... I know it all but I have no time right now to post it here. I will do it when I get home from work. I think you'll like it too...

          Yete:

          Yete gernas sirel payts siro keri chtarnal.....
          The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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          • #6
            "Poem" by Jack Kerouac


            I am God.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Arvestaked "Poem" by Jack Kerouac


              I am God.
              Kerouac eh? Have you ever read On The Road?
              Last edited by ckBejug; 01-07-2004, 10:36 AM.
              The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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              • #8
                Of course! I would not be a human not having read it. Do you like that book? I love the beat generation writers. Burroughs, Williams, Ginsberg....actually I am not the biggest Ginseberg fan but his journal is interesting.

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                • #9
                  REDUNDANCIES
                  by Carol Adler

                  There are no weekends or
                  weekdays anymore;
                  only rubble - office drawers coffee
                  cups adding machines without
                  keys or function to count anything
                  except death.

                  Was it only yesterday that stocks
                  went up - and down - like the broken
                  elevator in the Millennium
                  GONG. GOING. GONE .

                  Only yesterday that you or I
                  may have checked in at the desk
                  where the monitor is frozen
                  with the word FIRE and nobody is left
                  to re-boot the computer?

                  Renoir has painted the deserted coffee shoppe
                  in colors of plaster and dust: even
                  croissants bagels pancakes and eggs are as white
                  as the gowns of priests rabbis mullahs.

                  As emails pour through the Internet; as
                  our Citizens wave flags and buy Bonds; as
                  state persons wipe their eyes at countless press
                  conferences and the religious weep for the
                  chaos their God may or may not have wrought.

                  As husbands wives fathers cousins aunts the neighbor
                  who lived across the street are
                  declared lost;

                  As the hotel guests still seated in the empty
                  lobby read screaming headlines and wait for their
                  taxis, lovers, meetings --

                  As the Mid-Westerner pauses in the plaster-filled
                  gift shop to buy tee shirts and souvenirs of the
                  Twin Towers

                  the black-screened television blares
                  out a deeper truth that we dare not believe.

                  "This is Information Extra," repeats the
                  elevator stopping at Floor Zero with a loud

                  GONG. GOING. GONE.


                  Did we really think we could win out against
                  such obvious redundancies?
                  Achkerov kute.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by ckBejug This poem is one of my favorites as well, but I like the Armenian version much better.... I know it all but I have no time right now to post it here. I will do it when I get home from work. I think you'll like it too...

                    Yete:

                    Yete gernas sirel payts siro keri chtarnal.....
                    Here you go.... I hope you guys can read my Armenian.
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                    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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