City of Big Shoulders
Oh laughing city!
Giants tow'ring in the dust,
Singing: proud, coarse, strong.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Poetry
Some Old School Verse
Edgar Allen Poe: Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw -- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I loved alone.
Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life -- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold --
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by --
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Edgar Allen Poe: AloneFrom childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw -- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I loved alone.
Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life -- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold --
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by --
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
6 comments:
first try at a haiku ... i went to metaphorical i think... have to work on that one... the form is there however lol... i think hehe
what about saying "my" instead of oh?
i originally had "Oh! Laughing city," ...im thinking maybe "our"... i dont like my though..... hmmm
I wish I can write haiku that's objective-- mine is quite sentimental...
I really love pixie dust ~.~
wow i cannot spell apparently... *too* metaphorical...
ok im gonna change "Oh laughing city!" to "oh! laughing city:" like Robert Hass' description of "oh!"... you would have had to have been there though...ermm... ill see if i can find his explanation somewhere... or remember it exactly... lol
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