They fuck you up your mum and dad (Phillip Larkin)

Hang on a mo. I think she's answering PamelaJ1

Still doesn't make sense.

That second link says site not secure Monica? Dare I continue.

Interesting idea for a thread Gonegirl, although I find the Phillip Larkin a bit depressing.

Morning Song - Silvia Plath

Although there are loads I like, but that has stayed with me since the children were born.

Gonegirl

Such a good poem, and so true!

Is it supposed to be PLJ do you think merlot? Remember that? Pure Lemon Juice. Oh I've just googled it and it's still around!! Well well well, and there's me thinking it was a blast from the past.

I wasn't actually trying to impress you Boosgran, funnily enough. Yes, what does PJ1 mean? (if anything)

Two corrections, 9th century monk not 5th.

When I clicked on the link after I had posted it it didn't work. No idea why, so her is another link irisharchaeology.ie/2013/10/pangur-ban/

I just love that poem Monica.

What's PJI?

Oh, please let us stick to the subject. There is so much wonderful poetry out there and my own list of favourites is constantly added to by other people introducing me to ones I did not know.

A bit of a misery guts, Philip Larkin and not one of my favouritse but This be the verse web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/theverse.html

I was waiting for a smart arse comment from you Gonegirl - grow up.

I referred to Maya Angelou's poem Phenomenal Woman on another thread in the last few days, I also think her poem Still I rise is fantatstic www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

And to come down to earth this poem, written by a 5th century AD Irish monk about his cat. For me it reaches out from a distant times and shows how the relation between a cat and his fond owner never changes Pangur Ban www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/pangur-ban.html

Phillip Larkin was one of the greatest poets of the last century Boosgran.

I'm sorry if you are offended by such a clever poem. Not my problem though.

I’m not impressed-just silly, childish behaviour PJ1.

"Bollocks" Lollocks by R Graves

How do you do that blue thing with your text Gone? Or does it just happen when you use norty words? Xxx

GK Chesterton’s A Christmas Carol. It is simply beautiful.

Well done gonegirl you’ve taken a lot of effort not to be edited.?? .Impressed.

Lots of lovely poems, but one of my favourites is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, starts:

“If I lay here dead, wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine”

Sounds dreadfully maudlin, but is all about love.

It's good to be highbrow at times

Safely on the Culture/Arts forum

poem here