Your Favourite Poem

[Irvine]

What's your favourite poem? Mine is O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.



O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.



O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;

Rise up--for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills,

For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding,

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head!

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.



My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;

The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;

From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;

Exult O shores, and ring O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

 

[Kaczynski]

O Captain, My Captain is a beautiful poem, I remember it for its opening line. And the Dead Poets Society.



It's a bloody long poem, but this is my favourite verse from Part IV of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.



Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on a wide wide sea!

And never a saint took pity on

My soul in agony.



And hands down my favourite poem that nobody else has ever heard of, I don't know why I like it though:



And I and your eyes

Draw round about a ring of gold

And shout their sparks of fire

And I and your eyes

Hold untold tales and conspire

With moon and sun to shake my soul



Then I

Could stand alone the pain

Of flesh alone the time and space

And steel alone but I am shaken

It has taken

your eyes

To move this stone.



It's by Etheridge Knight.

 

[2008paul]

[center:1kpwnv6a]What would happen if i said i love you

Would you say you love me to?

Or say no like all the girls do



Would you say lets just be friends

In you and me I see no romance



Would you stand by my side

Or ditch me and leave me behind



If I would kiss you

Would you kiss me back

Or would I scare you

And you would tell me to never come back



In the end maybe its better

that we just stay best friends

just forget about this letter

and about the romance.



I’ll always will love you and I’ll be there for you if you need help.[/center:1kpwnv6a]



[center:1kpwnv6a]I remember a time when we used to smile....

I remember a time when we used to laugh.

But no more...

Why...?



What happened to us?

What made you hate me so?



You changed...

Without telling and without sharing.

You just changed.

I asked you why? But you never answered.

You just ignored me and I suddenly felt so alone.

When you changed, everyone else changed.

I was frozen out, but you were still loved.

I felt so alone...

Time passed, and still no one could tell me why...Not even you...

Why?



So many questions that needs answering.

So many words not worth repeating.

I wish I knew what I had done...

But I never will...



You left this world and with you, you took the answer.

Does anyone really know?



Today we remembered you...

I felt so alone.



One thousand questions...

Should I be here? Do I belong here?

Would you want me here?



I don`t know...



But you do.

But you can`t answer me...

I will never know...

I feel so cold.



Cold inside. Cold on the outside.

Will I ever get warm?

No. Why should I?

Your cold. Never to be warm.

Why should I?



I got a call at midnight.

Cliche.

But the news was not.

You had an accident and to your death it lead.

So many questions....



I`m so alone...

I don`t know them,but I do...

I know who they are, but not.



I was never a part of you world.

And I fear your death have only parted me more from her.



She does not cry on my shoulder.

Why would she?

I have no comfort to give her.



I don`t stand with them, crying, hugging.

I stand on the outside.

Alwayson the outside.

It`s so cold.

I`m so alone.



Did you ever feel the same way?

Are you cold now? Are you alone?



So many questions...But there is no answer.



Time goes, but sleep will not come.

Food grows in my mouth...

I though up.

You can`t eat. Why sshouldI?



So many questions that needs answering...



I stand in a hall. It`s so big.

I call, but there is no answer.

They left. I am alone.



I will alwaysbe alone...

They remember...I don`t.

They had good times, shared them with you.

I did not. I am a stranger now.



Was I ever known?



So many questions...but there is no answer...



I am cold. I am alone.[/center:1kpwnv6a]