Post your favorite poem(s)

[bmarquis124]

whatever language you want, it doesn't matter. 1, 2, 3...go!

[Jessica]

Roses are red,
violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
and so are you


I have more poems I will put here but I have to find them first

[bmarquis124]

haha that one's a classic

[bmarquis124]

here is one of mine....

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it--it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less--
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
-Robert Frost

[Rusty]

Eletelephony
by Laura E. Richards

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! No! I mean an elephone,
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right!)

Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)

[bmarquis124]

that was beautiful, rusty. brought tears to mis ojos.

[Rusty]

ROTFL

Thanks!

I'm still .

[bmarquis124]

Originally Posted by Rusty

ROTFL

Thanks!

I'm still .

lol

[Jessica]

that was a good one!

[Jessica]

Here's a one I learned in 8th grade:

A Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And perhaps having better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way.
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I should be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that made all the difference

[Rusty]

The Road Not Taken is also by Robert Frost. Good choice!

[bmarquis124]

jchen, i like that one too.

[Jessica]

thanks

[CrOtALiTo]

I like the poems.

Now I will say one.

This flower is as your eyes, your eyes are your sun, because they are very radiants, and when you going to far to me, I feel that my flower dies, because I can't watch your eyes, please my love, you don't go far to me, because I can't live without you, if you come back again to my arms, I promise you, I will love forever.


Please, you don't go.

[Jessica]

That's a good one
Did you write that yourself or is it by a certain poet?

[María José]

Originally Posted by Rusty

ROTFL

Thanks!

I'm still .

You'll have to excuse the poor foreigner for her ignorance but what does ROTFL mean? ( I always tell my students Americans love their abbreviations and I think I've never uttered a truer sentence...)

[Rusty]

Rolling On The Floor Laughing

[María José]

Thanks, handsome. Never set eyes on you, but you sound handsome...

[Jessica]

nice one

[Rusty]

: blush :
You're welcome!

The abbreviation I used is appropriate in written form only and is usually reserved to blogs, texting and the like. Its cousin lol (Laugh Out Loud), however, is gaining popularity in spoken form, where it gains an 's' and rhymes with lulls (in American English).