Today's mini-challenge for the Bout of Books Read-a-Thon at On a Book Bender is to write one or two haikus based on the books we've read for the read-a-thon. I couldn't resist, so here are the two haikus I entered:

1. The machine of death,
Supposed to be for our good,
Will always laugh last.

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Since I am still reading the same book I've been reading for over a week (A Sundial in a Grave: 1610 by Mary Gentle -- it's not bad, but it is way too long!), I thought I'd share the following surrealist tidbit:

“The Honeymoon” by André Breton
(translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti)

To what are mutual attractions due? There are some jealousies ( Read more... )

Well, it's Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: time to post some love poetry! Since there are so many great love poems out there, I had a hard time choosing something to post, but ultimately I had to go with this one by W. B. Yeats:

"When You Are Old ( Read more... )

Day 16 - Favorite poem or collection of poetry

I'm not too widely read in poetry, but one of my favorite poets so far is W. H. Auden, and my favorite of his poems is "Funeral Blues."

W. H. Auden, "Funeral Blues"
(Source: www.poemhunter.com.)

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and ( Read more... )

Since it'll be a few days before I can post another review, I thought I'd share this poem, which I found while flipping through an anthology of Anne Sexton's poems in the bookstore the other day ( Read more... )

How about a nice poetry meme? Stolen from book_memes, of course -- and, out of charity, I'll put it under a cut. :)

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What are some of your favorite poems? A post over at book_memes got me thinking about mine, so here's a list of 20 of my favorites:

1. Shakespeare -- Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds...")
2. W. H. Auden -- Funeral Blues
3. T. S. Eliot -- Journey of the Magi
4. Robert Frost -- Birches
5. Pablo Neruda -- Sonnet XVII ("I do not love you as if ( Read more... )