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Spaghetti Tree
Jack Prelutsky

' "These are the best spaghetti seeds,"
the farmer promised me,
"And each of them will grow to be
a fine spaghetti tree!."

Well, I planted them one year ago,
and that farmer was phony!.
I haven't got one spaghetti tree--
Just fields of macaroni!.'

He's a great poet, and funny too!. You could try looking for his books, he kind of reminds me of shel silverstien!.

On a more serious note, there are 'The Blind man and the elephant,' -John Saxe, which you could probably find at wikipedia!.
also 'The Shape God Wears' whose author I forget!.


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Well you have asked for it ! But I think, these 3 poems that I love and has read each one of them at lest 7times if not more are by the same poet , Sri Aurobindo, will leave lasting impression on you for a life-time :

1) Savitri - an epic poem written in blank verse, with 724 pages!. I am just giving the first few lines for you :

BOOK ONE
The Book of Beginnings

Canto One
The Symbol Dawn

It was the hour before the Gods awake!.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence' marge!.

2) Ilion - An epic poem with 129 pages, written in classical hexameter with a dactyllic flow of - uu, as written by Homer in Greek!. Before and after him, not a single English poet has succeeded in writing in this meter!. I am giving the opening six lines :

ILION
An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters
BOOK ONE
The Book of the Herald

Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the labour of mortals,
Dawn the beginner of things with the night for their rest or their ending,
Pallid and bright-lipped arrived from the mists and the chill of the Euxine!.
Earth in the dawn-fire delivered from starry and shadowy vastness
Woke to the wonder of life and its passion and sorrow and beauty,
All on her bosom sustaining, the patient compassionate Mother!.

3) Ahana - written again classical hexameter with rhyming scheme, is also a long poem of 14 pages!. I am giving the opening 6 lines and the content of the poem:

AHANA
A poem in rhymed quantitative hexameters
Ahana
(Ahana, the Dawn of God, descends on the world where amid the strife and trouble of mortality the Hunters of Joy, the Seekers after Knowledge, the Climbers in the quest of Power are toiling up the slopes or waiting in the valleys!. As she stands on the mountains of the East, voices of the Hunters of Joy are the first to greet her!.)

Vision delightful alone on the hills whom the silences cover,
Closer yet lean to mortality; human, stoop to thy lover!.
Wonderful, gold like a moon in the square of the sun where thou strayest
Glimmers thy face amid crystal purities; mighty thou playest
Sole on the peaks of the world, unafraid of thy loneliness!. Glances
Leap from thee down to us, dream-seas and light-falls and magical trances;




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"Long Distance" by Carole Gregory!. It's short, so here it is:

That phone call, the one that you wait for
but never expect to come
was phoned today!.
And that voice, the one that you ache for
but seldom expect to hear
spoke today!.
And that loneliness, the loneliness you hurt from
but always held inside,
flies out like thin stones across water!.

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I don't know why!.!. that poem has stayed with me for about 13 years now, and it's always had such a huge emotional impact on me!.
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It's impossible to pick a favourite poem, but there is a very interesting one by Earle Birney called "David" that I read in English class!. I think you might enjoy it!. (sorry I can't find a good link) also, you may like "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe!. http://www!.heise!.de/ix/raven/Literature/!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Slow Dance by David L!. Weatherford!.
http://www!.davidlweatherford!.com/slowdan!.!.!.
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there was a girl from nantucket !.!.!.it's by [ the shi*t house bandit ]Www@QuestionHome@Com

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