#vpoem

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The Sun and Daffodil

Welcome Game Tester: Poetry Series

There once was a garden watched by the sun. He saw every flower but loved                obsessed over one. The daffodil golden and free                scorched up. Was never meant to be. The sun would                couldn’t save her                                no matter what.

[johndunwin]

Tony Harrison, who died today, wrote with a brutal honesty that cuts through abstraction. His poem "V." is a clear, unflinching look at class conflict in 1980s Britain.

The poem describes a man visiting his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery vandalised by graffiti. He argues with a skinhead version of himself about language, work, and wasted lives. The ugly words spray-painted on the stones are not used for shock, but to show a real and shared anger.

Critics called the poem obscene. They missed the point. Harrison uses strong language to defend the people it often insults. He believed poetry should engage with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. "V." is a powerful, uncomfortable elegy for a divided England, and it remains deeply relevant.

[virlizamaraya]

Hearing you planning your future is scary

I don't know where I will fit

Or whether our timing will meet each other in the middle

Hearing you being excited about your plan

Makes me anxious and happy at the same time

[the-l0ne-wolfs]

[itsvizzle]

#VPoem

Life.... Ups Down... Filled 

Reality we live in but most wish time would still...

stand on your own... love can be gained....

love can be lost.... but in the end...

its something bittersweet.... tasted all the time

...... eventuallyt revelations will come and understanding takes time