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Post a favorite poem here.  Smile

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Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
by: Robert Frost
 
Whose woods these are I think I know.   
His house is in the village though;   
He will not see me stopping here   
To watch his woods fill up with snow.   
 
My little horse must think it queer   
To stop without a farmhouse near   
Between the woods and frozen lake   
The darkest evening of the year.   
 
He gives his harness bells a shake   
To ask if there is some mistake.   
The only other sound’s the sweep   
Of easy wind and downy flake.   
 
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.
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I like that Snowy Woods poem because it is simple - like me.  Wink

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Now, poetry !!

This is really an awesome group !

Go, Corinthians !!

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Yesterday, on Friday, I had a difficult day.  I felt I should not go to work because the weather was too nice and work is difficult and not very nice, and several things were going on.  If I were a better person and did not stay on Internet so much, I might have had a chance to make an impact, but instead small things were going wrong for me.  I told someone that I consider myself indecisive, too.

That reminded me of this line of poetry, about myself.  But I could not remember the whole line so later I looked it up to complete the phrase.

"The best lack all intensity, while the worst are full of ...... "

Anyway, now I have found the link.  It is a commonly remembered poem by Yeats.  I have looked it up and learned he was alive until 1939.  The Paris Review commonly says there is a widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to the poem, and that is pretty amusing.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/07/no-slouch/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43290

The missing words at the end also reminds me of people who are nuts about politics (well, the media in some cases, and certain politicians.)

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Thanks Cavatine. That is excellent.  Smile