the delphic expanse

I'm a big fan of poetry.

So, I'm starting a thread for non-fandom related poem sharing. Not poems you wrote. Poems you like.

I will start.

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats. I love his imagery here.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. Just awesome.

Dulce Et Decorum Est by one of the Lost WW1 poets, Wilfred Owen. This one has special significance to me because I first read it during Desert Shield back in 1990 when I was constantly having to don a protective mask in response to Iraqi gas strikes.

Mending Wall by Robert Frost.

The Song of Wandering Aengus – W.B.Yeats. I love this... as a poem, a song, the images an inspiration for making other art

When You are Old – W.B.Yeats.

Sonnet #29 – Shakespeare.

Herbsttag – Rainer Maria Rilke (Translations included). I can never find my favorite translation on the web, but the first of these comes close to how I see it.

The Listeners by Walter de la Mare

I remember reading this in about eighth grade, and it's been one of my favorites ever since.

I'm no longer a believer, but I still like this anyway:

The Creation by James Weldon Johnson

Anything by Edgar Allan Poe, but especially this one. I wonder if Mr. Combs recites it in his one-man show?

The Conqueror Worm

In keeping with Rigil's WWI theme:

In Flanders Fields by Lt. Col. John McCrae, M.D.

Moving on to WWII:

High Flight by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., RCAF

Finally, Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.

Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood