03-01-2010, 10:12 PM
I have a few poems posted myself on this section of the forum, if you want to check them out.
A lot of the poetry I like displays the shadow side of humanity...aka it is really depressing, and yet bleeding out the pain into verse seems to heal the wounds within both reader and writer. One of my favorites is called "The Hollow Men", but I can't recall who it's by right now.
Ah, here we are. It's by T.S. Elliot. It's an extremely long poem, so I'll only post a small part:
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
A lot of the poetry I like displays the shadow side of humanity...aka it is really depressing, and yet bleeding out the pain into verse seems to heal the wounds within both reader and writer. One of my favorites is called "The Hollow Men", but I can't recall who it's by right now.
Ah, here we are. It's by T.S. Elliot. It's an extremely long poem, so I'll only post a small part:
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom