#odd poem

[batgovernor]

Odd poem: Tchaikovsky, 'Lilies of the Valley'

When at the end of spring I pick for the last time My favourite flowers— a yearning fills my breast, And to the future I urgently appeal: Let me but once again look upon the lilies of the valley. Now they have faded. Like an arrow the summer has flown by, The days have grown shorter. The feathered choir is still, The sun more charily grants us its warmth and light, And already the wood has laid…

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[goldrushess]

clenching my jaw while you list all the ways  we failed and all the ways we could have changed

glare at the wooden countertop while you drone on and on and on about things that really don’t matter now

bite my tongue until its bitter with spilled blood my mind is screaming don’t engage. don’t engage. don’t engage

and so

I curl my fists and set a smile on my face force a lighthearted comment and sit and wait

breaking fingers under the dining table 

[peace-and-light-poetry]

Pointed Observation

She stood, stood in place For a few fleeting moments Pondering It was an observation However, one of something She couldn't wrap her head around She hunched her back slightly She needed to see them more clearly Something needed to be sorted out She knew they were there And, to her observations, they seem to have A mind of their own She's heavyset But short in stature And something seemed off Bottom-heavy, she knew But that was a measurement She could understand The other measurements However, seemed off She remembered not being nearly As heavy She was top-heavy A fact mundane but conspicuous She never paid attention "40D" was a pointed observation

[batgovernor]

Odd Poem: Hu Mingfu (胡明复) , 'Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den'

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den is crafted entirely from the syllable “shi,” distinguished only by tonal variation, yet it still conveys a complete and coherent story in Chinese. The poem was originally written by Hu Mingfu (胡明复) and published by linguist Yuen Ren Chao in Volume 11 of The Chinese Students’s Monthly in 1916.[2][3] It was then refined by Yuen Ren Chao in the 1930s for…

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[batgovernor]

Using form: Odd poem: British Railways toilet sign

Passengers will please refrain from flushing toilets while the train is standing in the station. ***** It is my (perhaps flawed) understanding that this particular wording originated in the UK. Signs instructing passengers to refrain from flushing toilets while at a station were widely used in the UK throughout the mid-20th century, specifically from the nationalization of British Railways in…

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[batgovernor]

Odd poem: Xi Jinping, 'In Memory of Jiao Yulu'

Ten thousand miles away your soul has flown; the rivers, mountains and land yearn for your return. The people mourn the loss of a caring official, tears flooding under the empress trees you planted. Having dedicated your life to the desert, to the betterment of people’s lives, your legacy lives on no matter how many years come and go. The moon shining bright as always, I think of you and your…

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[batgovernor]

Odd poem: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'A Reminiscence of Cricket'

Once in my heyday of cricket, One day I shall ever recall! I captured that glorious wicket, The greatest, the grandest of all. Before me he stands like a vision, Bearded and burly and brown, A smile of good humoured derision As he waits for the first to come down. A statue from Thebes or from Knossos, A Hercules shrouded in white, Assyrian bull-like colossus, He stands in his might. With the…

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[batgovernor]

Odd poem: Barack Obama, 'Underground'

Under water grottos, caverns Filled with apes That eat figs. Stepping on the figs That the apes Eat, they crunch. The apes howl, bare Their fangs, dance, Tumble in the Rushing water, Musty, wet pelts Glistening in the blue. ***** A 1981 poem by future President of the United States Barack Obama, originally published in the journal Feast and featured in The New Yorker in 2007. You can forgive a…

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