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the worse verse thread seems to have petered out (at least momentarily :) -- so who wants to post some serious poesy?
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Ai-eee, terror! D'you mean original ???
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John Donne, the metaphysical one:
"Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die."
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The onbly three line limerick:
There once was a fellow from France,
Who waited nine years for his chance.
Then he muffed it.
TEd
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That belongs on the worse verse thread, Ted. 
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In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.
Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go on the same
Though Dynasties pass.
Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.
Hardy
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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickinson (Nobody? No way.)
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Fra Giovanni gave us these immortal words in 1513:
"No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in
today. Take heaven!
No peace lies in the future that is not hidden in this
present moment. Take peace!
The gloom of this world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet
within reach, is joy.
There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but
see, and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to
look.
Life is so generous a giver..."
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Estranged from beauty none can be --
For beauty is infinity
And power to be finite ceased
Before identity was leased.
-E. D.
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I guess it was from fairy tales I learned
a puissant immortality, and then discerned
the words involved were lovelier than blocks
and equally oblivious of clocks.
when the facts of birth were straightened out
in time to know what life was all about,
I assumed, though saying nothing indiscreet,
that I was more or less complete.
now those old volumes of my aping trust
reveal provisos I never had discussed,
tracing an acquired taste for dust.
if I rightly understand the way it goes:
as naturally as looking out on winter snows,
I wind up wearing bones for clothes.
[roll over, Fra Giovanni]
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