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A Supermarket in California by Ginsberg. Idk why it just always has stuck with me
Billy Connolly’s “Mary Rose”
Mary Rose
Sat on a pin
Mary roselighght
because it messes with my brain just righght
Little potato when it is born Spreads its branches on the ground Little girl when she sleeps Puts her hand on her heart I am tiny The size of a button I carry daddy in my pocket And mommy in my heart The pocket got a hole And daddy fell on the ground Mommy who is the dearest Stayed in my heartHeh, my lemmy client is formatting this poem like it’s SQL code
If-, by Rudyard Kipling.
Different stanzas of the poem have given me strengths through different challenges and I keep coming back to it.
Mark Strand - Keeping things whole. It helps me deal with depression. I find it very soothing when I’m feeling down. It’s one of the few I know by heart.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44049/a-man-said-to-the-universe
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”Written in like the 1890s. So straight forward. Feels modern.
Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
I also love Masks by Shel.
It’s not DNS,
There’s no way it’s DNS,
It was DNSThis hurts to read :-(.
Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning just rolled around in my head for day after I first read it. It’s really dark but feels so completely human at the same time.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover
I love Robert Browning. Love Among the Ruins has always been my favorite, although I’m not sure why. I honestly don’t think it’s his best work.
Pale Fire, because I’m a try hard poser I think
Ozymandias, because it’s one of the very few I’ve read, and I liked it.
As I walked out one evening by W.H. Auden
https://poets.org/poem/i-walked-out-one-evening
Or for the lazy who want to hear the poet himself read it:
The why is that long ago, when I was in college in Maine, my girlfriend’s English step-dad read it to his wife after attempting to prove he was American by driving their VW Jetta around the garden in the snow. Alcohol was involved and when everyone assembled finally convinced Tony to come back inside, an English teacher friend compelled him to read a poem as proof that he had come to terms with the car stuck in the snow out back. A life-long fan of Auden he chose As I Walked Out One Evening. As it opens, the imagery and fantastic feats of love are obviously spoken by a young man, but “time coughs when you would kiss” signalling that “time will have his fancy, tomorrow or today.” You can break down what it means to you but the undeniably great lines I continue to quote on a weekly basis, albeit in my head so as not to annoy others. As I get older I stare in the basin and wonder what I’ve missed, but I also know that I will love my best friend, and wife 'till the salmon sing in the street.
I find it almost impossible to pick a favorite poem of hers, but if I had to it’d probably be “Tutaj” (“Here” in English) by Wislawa Szymborska.
https://medium.com/illumination/here-671e29357dcc
“Starvation Camp Near Jaslo” and “Foraminifera” are two other favorites and Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak have done an amazing job at the translations.
