I’m aware that I might be the only person to ever use this one, but we have a movies topic and a music topic, so I thought I’d create a wee poetry topic!
I’ve been reading a lot of poetry recently, and every so often I feel the need to share something beautiful I’ve found. It would be lovely if those who want to on tardis.guide could do the same! <3
I’ll start with my favourite poem by the wonderful Seamus Heaney: Postscript.
No worries! I think it’s nice for us to get Threads for even more “Niche” Topics such as Poetry! Love that Poem that you shared here!
Personally, I do really like good Poetry, but rarely read it for some Reason. And I think if I mentioned my favorite, that would probably be the Answer of most People, so I am not going to do it. Anyway, I am excited to see and read more here in the Future! Hopefully I will be able to discover some further Poetry that I wasn’t aware of!
‘Miles Away’ by Carole Anne Duffy is a favourite of mine:
I want you and you are not here. I pause
in this garden, breathing the colour thought is
before language into still air. Even your name
is a pale ghost and, though I exhale it again
and again, it will not stay with me. Tonight
I make you up, imagine you, your movements clearer
than the words I have you say you said before.Wherever you are now, inside my head you fix me
with a look, standing here whilst cool late light
dissolves into the earth. I have got your mouth wrong,
but still it smiles. I hold you closer, miles away,
inventing love, until the calls of nightjars
interrupt and turn what was to come, was certain,
into memory. The stars are filming us for no one.
Did anybody else read the title of the thread like “TV Buuuurp Poetry Cooooornerrrr” 
On a more serious note, I studied Carol Ann Duffy’s poems in school and they still stick out to me I really liked them. Which is wild as I barely remember anything from school but they were different to the others i’d studied before.
The french poem sous le pont Mirabeau by Guillaume Apollinaire is one of my favourites. Not only do I like the sound and feeling of it, it was the first poem I actually understood in school in France. My French skills were generally good enough to get the gist of what was going on in science or history, but French was obviously made for native speakers and I really went out of there not understanding anything most of the time even though the teacher was very nice and encouraging, so this was an important milestone for me
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l’onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
L’amour s’en va comme cette eau courante
L’amour s’en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l’Espérance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
There’s a poem called He Pushed Her in an anthology for children which I read to my class once and have never been able to find again. It had a really clever twist and played with the reader’s prejudices. I really wish I could find it.
Could it be this one?
Oh my god! That is it! I’ve been looking for that for about 15 years and you found it in 15 minutes! Thank you so much.
@shauny can we grant @nyssaoftraken a Solved badge!
Oh hell yeah poetry topic! Both Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy know their way round a poem, each has a way with descriptions that stand out, though both in different ways. “I have got your mouth wrong, / but still it smiles” just hits
One of my nicher hobbies is memorising poetry, not even for any purpose beyond “repeating to myself as I do the washing up” 
(as such, I have a preference towards poems that are, in one way or another, fun to read aloud). One of the longest ones I’ve got memorised, and maybe my favourite poem in general, is And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When the Rapture Comes by Hanif Abdurraqib
I have a love/dislike relationship with poetry. I absolutely love Japanese poetry, but I’ve been left a bit cold by the classic Western poetry I’ve read (published prior to 1900). I’m slowly trying to broaden my horizons in that realm and in poetry overall, though; it’s just a matter of finding poets whose work clicks with me. I definitely enjoy writing haiku.
Colin Baker wrote a poem which he recited at a convention many years ago. It’s called “It’s All Geek to Me”.
I love Hanif Abdurraqib! His poetry is so beautiful. The line like everyone I love who I can still touch really hit home from that one!
My favourite ’classic’ Western poet is Andrew Marvell. He was also my gran’s favourite and poems like The Garden and The Definition of Love mean a lot to me because of her. Just a recommendation if you haven’t heard of him! <3
They call me the poetry detective 
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check out those two poems you suggested.
I’ve slowly been getting into poetry and one of my favorite authors so far has been Mary Oliver. I love the way she talks about nature and the more mundane aspects of life. I really like The Journey and Wild Geese, both are a little existential. But here’s one of her poems from her anthology Dog Songs which I find sweet.
Percy(One)
Our new dog, named for the beloved poet,
Ate a book which unfortunately we had
Left unguarded.
Fortunately it was the Bhagavad Gita,
Of which many copies are available.
Every day now, as Percy grows
Into the beauty of his life, we touch
His wild, curly head and say,
“Oh, wisest of little dogs.”
That’s so cool they found the poem for you. However I can’t grant that badge unless I make the whole topic a “solvable topic” so it’s not feasible unfortunately!!
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I came here to post Jacob Dudman’s impressionist reading of Now We Are Six Hundred only to find it’s been removed from his YouTube account 
There’s a poem which- Well, it has no reason at all to be in my top 10 poems. I don’t know what made it stick in my head so clearly, or why- out of all the very touching, personal poetry I’ve read and collected, things that moved me deeply, this one just sort of. Is what it is. But it does often pop in my mind, and especially comes out when I’m trying to write-
Robert Browning’s " How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix".
Not poems per se, but very poetic: “Tao Te Ching,” translated/interpreted by Ursula K. Le Guin.
A few month back I got myself a copy of “Robert Frost - Sixteen Poems To Learn By Heart” by Jay Parini. Good stuff. 
Oooh, I’ve always been interested in Daoism, didn’t know there was a Le Guin edition! I’ll have to seek it out when I finish my current library books.
One of my favorites:
“The Orange”
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange, it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
This is peace and contentment. It’s new.
The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all the jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I’m glad I exist.
— Wendy Cope
