Poetic Living

[ddbmma]

Often it is simply better to let words of others describe life. There are many reasons, eloquence and economy swift to mind. Perhaps others may share favorite poems, or not. Below is a link to one I enjoy.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html

[wildangel]

Here is mine, DDB. I think it sums up everything I believe and how I try to live my life.


The Great Emily (http://www.bartleby.com/113/1006.html)

[showmeguy]

nice choices you two, but wildangel i figured you would like this one by emily:

Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile the winds
To a heart in port, --
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart!

Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in Thee!


:)

[ddbmma]

Excellent code of living wild. And show, wow.

[smokey]

my all time favorite line of poetry is from Rainer Maria Rilke and it still sums it up best:

"It is breathtaking just to be here."

[wildangel]

That is indeed terrific, Showme. Too bad I can't edit her poem to fuse the two of them....lol :bounce: :bounce:


:flag2: Who better to quote on bisexual.com than a person extensively thought to have been a bisexual? :flag2:

[meteast chick]

Truer words were never spoken...here's mine...I love Emily D. and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (sappy I know, but I love it)...


"PUT off that mask of burning gold
With emerald eyes."
"O no, my dear, you make so bold
To find if hearts be wild and wise,
And yet not cold."

"I would but find what's there to find,
Love or deceit."
"It was the mask engaged your mind,
And after set your heart to beat,
Not what's behind."

"But lest you are my enemy,
I must enquire."
"O no, my dear, let all that be;
What matter, so there is but fire
In you, in me?"