Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts

Saturday, May 11, 2013

"I Dwell in Possibility" by Emily Dickinson

I Dwell in Possibility 
by Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –

Monday, June 7, 2010

"I Feel (Verse Libre)" by L. M. Montgomery

vers li·bre (vĕr lēˈbrə)
noun
Free verse.
Origin: French : vers, verse + libre, free

I Feel (Verse Libre)
by L. M. Montgomery

I feel
Very much
Like taking
Its unholy perpetrators
By the hair
Of their heads
(If they have any hair)
And dragging them around
A few times,
And then cutting them
Into small, irregular pieces
And burying them
In the depths of the blue sea.
They are without form
And void,/ Or at least
The stuff they/ produce
Is./ They are too lazy
To hunt up rhymes;
And that
Is all
That is the matter with them.

Friday, January 1, 2010

"A Book" by Emily Dickinson

A Book
by Emily Dickinson

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!

I'm sure some of you have already read this poem before, but I thought it was a fitting poem to begin this blog with. :)