Candy Man by Roald Dahl
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew. Cover it in chocolate and make a miracle or two. The candy man, the candy man can. The candy man can' cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.
I love that poem and it was also a song. Now I have it stuck in my head, lolo!
I think the very first poem I read and later understood which then gave me my first appreciation for the power of poetry was Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/browni … ion3.rhtml
I implore you to read it and mull over it before looking at the interpretation of it.
I enjoy the collection "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Alexander Beetle by AA Milne. Except that isn't the name of it .... I think it's called forgiveness. I still love it!
I found a lttle beetle, so that beetle was his name,
And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same
I put him in a matchbox and i kept him all the day
And nanny let my beetle out,
Yes, nanny let my beetle out
She went and let my beetle out
And beetle ran away..............
I can't recall reading much poetry at a very young age, outside of the fabulous Dr. Seuss, but I became very interested in poetry in high school after reading e.e. cumming's 'i carry your heart with me.'
When I was 9 years old, I saw this poem while riding a particular bus. I was into princesses then, so it fascinated me.
HER VERY FROWNS ARE FAIRER FAR
"She is not fair to outward view
As other maidens be.
Her loveliness I never knew,
Until she smiled on me,
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light,
But now her looks are coy and cold,
To mine they ne'er reply,
And yet I cease not to behold
The love-light in her eye.
Her very frowns are fairer far,
Than smiles of other maidens are.
~ Hartley Coleridge (1746-1849)
by thekidandblue 15 years ago
I love Charles Bukowski because he just didn't give a rats a$$.Roger McGough for being a great rhymer.Benjamin Zephaniah for telling it like it is.Sylvia Plath for being hauntingly depressing or is that depressingly haunting, beautiful poetry anyway.
by Whosays101 11 years ago
What's your favourite thing about poetry
by Sam 10 years ago
I love learning about poetry. Who is your favourite poet?
by Cris A 15 years ago
"nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" fr somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by e.e. cummings
by Erica Sanchez 14 years ago
My heart you drew in the sand You sealed it with a water brand I thought our love would shirley last Washed up in the wave now passed A place special within my heart A step I take that will further us apart I love you, I loved you so Our love washed away, now I must go
by Ethel Smith 14 years ago
What is your all time favourite poem and why?
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