That's Right...MORE Poetry!! (cue maniacal laughter)

Today(or tonight depending) for your viewing pleasure we have the works of my two of my favorite poets. Namely E.E. Cummings and Arthur O'Shaughnessy....So firstly for ol'Arty!

Ode

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample the empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.


And E.E. Cummings:

I Carry Your Heart With Me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


And now I shall leave you. I just thought I would post these. So enjoy!


- Rae

A Moment of Poetical Poetry...Otherwise Called: 'The Mood Struck Me'

So Sunday I was feeling a little poetic and wrote some, you guessed it!, POETRY!!! (And you were wondering what I was doing...! You naughty cabbage you!) And so my duckies I decided that I would post it for your viewing pleasure and let you be the judge!

On a side note, all comments are going to be moderated by me from now on. Why? Well, unfortunately someone decided that it would be hysterical to spam by blog with their stupid spammy-ness instead of commenting. Which is what a normal person would do, the commenting not the spamming.

At Hand
Bound from
and by
our sin
slavery holding
us still
killed by
choices we'd
made.
Death alone
holds us now
where has
the bright
hope
of dawn
fled to
whilst
we've been
dying?
killed?
For nothing
from nothing
is gained.
And night
has engulfed
us till now.
Arise O Sleeper
arise!
And look
to the east
with the dawn.
For night now
from dawn's waking
must flee
and behold
our king
sets us free.
Arise O Sleeper
arise!
Hope now
at last
is at hand.
And
death now
to death
has been
put.
And life
we've
been given
anew.
So sing with the dawn
you who slept
For sin no longer can hold
and now power
below
or
above
can take us now
from His side.
Arise O Sleeper
arise!
Arise O my soul
and give thanks
for now
at last I am free!
For Jesus
Himself
set me
free.
And love has now
bought my life
how much more
now my heart?
Arise O my soul
and give thanks!
Forever
together
we'll be
never
now to depart.
His kingdom
forever shall stand.
His kingdom forever
shall stand.
And peace's King shall
forever now rule.
Together
forever
I'll stay
forever and always
His now.