poetry spam

[keestone]

They All Want to Play Hamlet

by Carl Sandburg

THEY all want to play Hamlet.
They have not exactly seen their fathers killed
Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill,
Nor an Ophelia dying with a dust gagging the heart,
Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders,
Not exactly this have they got at nor the meaning of flowers-O flowers

Comments

[jade_sabre_301]

*wanders over from Sounis after seeing you mention you're an Anglo-Irish literature post-grad*

this is beautiful. I...really...like this poem. So much it might go onto a list of "things to pull livejournal format quotes from." Beautiful.

mind if I friend you? :-)

[keestone]

Sure, go ahead. I should warn you though, I tend to complain a good bit in friendslocked posts. ;)