1631: The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T.S. Eliot

[exceptindreams]

"The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
T.S. Eliot

S’Explainio credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.Let us go then, you and I

Comments

[strwberryfizz]

THIS is one of my top five, for sure. I just get lost in it... the words are so beautiful that it's hard to get through it, since you just keep flickering back to what you just read.

[contactcomfort]

This, very much this.

[secretsolitaire]

Or top three/five, if one is too difficult.

Yes. :)

After Work by Richard Jones

Zero Circle by Rumi

i thank You God for most this amazing by e.e. cummings

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Sonnet IX by Pablo Neruda

[pointoforigin]

I don't think I could pick my top favorites. But here are the first ones that came to mind:
Starting from Paumanok, by Walt Whitman
God's Grandeur, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sonnet XXIX (When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) by William Shakespeare
Wild Nights--Wild Nights, by Emily Dickinson
The last section of "Bells in Winter" by Czeslaw Milosz
Voyages, by Hart Crane

[flashfly]

Some favorites from last year's poetry month as shared by secretsolitaire

The Novel
by Adrienne Rich

Theater Impressions
by Wisława Szymborska

The Road Back
by Pak Chaesam

Coping
by Audre Lorde

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
by e.e. cummings

[secretsolitaire]

♥

[a_prettywar]

I never tire of reading this one. :)

As for just a few of my favorites...
"The Poem I Didn't Write" by Raymond Carver
"Late Night" by Margaret Atwood
"San Antonio" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Since Feeling is First" by e.e. cummings