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Position:Home>Poetry> Does anyone know a good short poem?? 10pts.?Question: Does anyone know a good short poem!?!? 10pts!.!? a cute one that is easy to memorize!? it must be a published poem!.
its for a project in my english class and i have to memorize a poem and tell about some it doesnt have to all: -quatrains/coulplets -figurative language -sounds of language -imagery -ironyWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: if you love me, like you told me you can have my heart you can take it, just don't break it or my world will fall apart!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com How short can it be!? Try this haiku by Buson, a 17th century Japanese writer!. (it has no title) In the cool of morning the bell's voice leaves the bell The poem no longer has the correct amount of syllables, as it has been translated from Japanese to English, but it's one of my favorite poems and it's by my favorite poet!. It's ironic that the voice of a bell would leave it, when it was commonly used to wake many people!. Imagery should be easy enough to spot!. You might be able to find more about it than I was!. I hope I helped!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Life is but a lesson, I'll tell you when I'm through!. Through God's Good words I shall listen,and this is what I'll do!.Turn right turn left through right and wrong!. These lessons I will learn,Though I make mistakes and see the light the d(evil) will surely burn!.Through God,s good grace and his only son , could this world only know,that if not for Him as we still sin,than our bodies would surely burn!. Thank Him for this grace and our resting place in His Kingdom built on high!.For this life is only a testing phase and death will surely die!Www@QuestionHome@Com With You By:Chris Brown Or Hard To Please By:Shel Silverstien You Could find With you on the internet!. And Hard to please is Elaine gives me a pain!. Gill makes me ill!. Winnies a ninny!. Orin is borin!. Milly is silly!. Rosy is nosy!. Junie is loonie!. Gussie is fussie!. Jackie is wacky!. Tommy is bolmy!. Mary is scary!. Micky isWww@QuestionHome@Com #1035 by Emily Dickinson Bee! I'm expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due -- The Frogs got Home last Week -- Are settled, and at work -- Birds, mostly back -- The Clover warm and thick -- You'll get my Letter by The seventeenth; Reply Or better, be with me -- Yours, Fly!. ------------------------------------ Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O'Hara I am not a painter, I am a poet!. Why!? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not!. Well, for instance, Mike Goldberg is starting a painting!. I drop in!. "Sit down and have a drink" he says!. I drink; we drink!. I look up!. "You have SARDINES in it!." "Yes, it needed something there!." "Oh!." I go and the days go by and I drop in again!. The painting is going on, and I go, and the days go by!. I drop in!. The painting is finished!. "Where's SARDINES!?" All that's left is just letters, "It was too much," Mike says!. But me!? One day I am thinking of a color: orange!. I write a line about orange!. Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines!. Then another page!. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life!. Days go by!. It is even in prose, I am a real poet!. My poem is finished and I haven't mentioned orange yet!. It's twelve poems, I call it ORANGES!. And one day in a gallery I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES!. --------------------------------------!.!.!. Although the poems you'll see at this next website are pretty long, they'll give you a taste of what lies ahead in archy and mehitabel's world, if you decide to enter it!. http://www!.donmarquis!.com/archy/ Break a leg!Www@QuestionHome@Com Try, Upon a Lilac Sea by Emily Dickinson (I think) Or I held a Jewel by Emily Dickinson these should be good i hopeWww@QuestionHome@Com I never saw a purple cow!. I never hope to see one!. But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one!. Ogden Nash, I think!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |