Your Favourite Poem?

[Danny]

My favourite is "Havisham" by Carol Anne Duffy, based on Miss Havisham from Great Expectations, who was jilted at the alter, poor thing.



Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
I haven't wished him dead. Prayed for it
so hard I've dark green pebbles for eyes,
ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days
in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress
yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;
the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this

to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words.
Some nights better, the lost body over me,
my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear
then down till suddenly bite awake. Love's

hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting
in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding cake.
Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.
Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.

 

[Scaff]

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)

"I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

 

[crimson_menace]

Written on a restroom stall:

"Here is sits now, broken-hearted.

Tried to dook, but only farted."

I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it. I was like 7 or so.

 

[Anderton Prime]

I remember really enjoying The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser in university, and I loved Paradise Lost - also by Spenser - particularly the beginning.

 

[Draedalus]

I remember really enjoying The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser in university, and I loved Paradise Lost - also by Spenser - particularly the beginning.

Unless there is another poem by the same name, "Paradise Lost" is John Milton. One of my favorites, as well.