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BTW, guys! Why haven’t anyone mentioned yet poetry doesn’t always mean such a hackneyed lovestories! There’s a load of hugely sophisticated lyrics on freedom, sense of life, firmness of one’s views, etc. Russian-speaking guys must recognize this poem that has been among my favourite ones

LISTEN

Listen,

if stars are lit

it means – there is someone who needs it.

It means – someone wants them to be,

that someone deems those specks of spit

magnificent.

And overwrought,

in the swirls of afternoon dust,

he bursts in on God,

afraid he might be already late.

In tears,

he kisses God’s sinewy hand

and begs him to guarantee

that there will definitely be a star.

He swears

he won’t be able to stand that starless ordeal.

Later,

He wanders around, worried,

but outwardly calm.

And to everyone else, he says:

‘Now,

it’s all right.

You are no longer afraid,

are you?’

Listen,

if stars are lit,

it means – there is someone who needs it.

It means it is essential

that every evening

at least one star should ascend

over the crest of the building.

Come on! who’s the author?

@Buttafly - Thanks, I would say not a fort, more an amatuer who likes poetry and literature, and of course it’s easier to know many german greats if you speak German =) yes they did have a magnificient talent, some of them makes you cry, some makes you smile –  like Wilhelm Busch for example =) ..... epic and filled with so much emotions ….and what’s your favourite poem by Rilke? 

The poem I composed when my kid wanted something on Pollution for school assignment..

Stop Pollution

enjoy delusion…. but stop pollution

injured badly from crust to the core

cant bear it.. the earth any more

no room now to delay solution

march on to seed another green revolution

mother nature blesses us the utmost care

blooming flowers & trees… pure water & air

forget not our duty to it.. to be just and fair

wise up rise up to save the ozone layer

do enjoy delusion… but must stop pollution

All are the nature’s charming creation… beauties such as Sun, Moon and Vegetation…

Another warming sensation out comes Poetry as human’s imagination stirs his passion….

The words and the synonyms….. the vocabulary and the rhymes….

The placement is all magic…. giving way to the music… producing some beautiful kick…

That the ears feel the sweet… the heart goes upbeat…....

Agonies take the back seat….and life and beauty complete their meet…….

Beauty, nature, flower, valor et al every thing finds place in its composition….

Power is so much …that it also becomes anthem of a nation…. 

I apologize for my comment here, because it is off topic. Comment is not about poetry.

 I’m going to talk about actors because I have to reply to the question I’ve been asked.

I will start from phrase: “I like real people with real character and appearance. I never had a habbit to fall in love with photo of singer or actor  even in my hot teens ;)”  

Snoopy, just out of the interest and for the sake of fun let me see your address book  please.

I want  to point out  which actor I would like you to connect me with.

Here goes

Danny DeVito – excellent actor, funny and with kind heart but “NO” sorry

Sylvester Stallone – he may be everything I like. He is strong, brave, handsome, but the type of his temper is not the one I would prefer. So, “No” as well.

Jacky Chan, Bruce Lee ….  -  “NO” without any explanations

Daniel Craig, Samuel Jackson, Denzel Washington  – “NO” as well

Brad Pitt – hmmmmmm, he is good looking especially in the movie “Troy”…. so handsome, strong, powerful, sexy but  “NOT now”. You will connect me with him later on. ;) 

Snoopy, as I can see your address list is not long. Out of the digits you have got in your address book dial please pilot John Travolta and Will Smith. :) 

Look carefully may be you will find the numbers  of Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Jack Nicholson, Antony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke. They are the firm “YES” especially  Antony Hopkins, Tom Hanks and Alec Baldwin. I’m craving to talk to them. :D :D :D

Thanks for the connection 

I like poetry because it shows us amazing,human thought.
Fellas have a nice day.

snoopyboy – Just try to understand one of them, that’s enough or you can try to find one of them in english and read it!

Dearest Lesya, traditionally the celebration of Victory Day began in the Eternal Glory park where flowers were laid  on a grave of unknown soldiers. The members of government congratulated  veterans. After that all the veterans were invited to a big concert. There was also a parade of the military hardware.

The celebration finished with an impressive fireworks. Our veterans were proposed to eat some front-line kasha and to drink a jigger of vodka  just as it was during the war. The veterans were also proposed a ride on  a motor ship. It’s a pity that the weather was not  so good today, even cold.

1.800.000 veterans are  in Ukraine by now.

They are all deserve love and respect of Ukrainian people.

Which Hollywood actor is your type,LEsya

  hold that thought let me grab my address book. I have a few connections I can hook you up. Okay…I’m ready, I have Danny de vito, Silverter Stalone, Jacky Chan, Will smith, Daniel Craig, Brad Pitt, John Travolta, Samuel Jackson, Denzel’s digits.

I use to valet for all of them

Alsayadi, yes voice means a lot for the declamation of poetry or for the singing the song.

Snoopy,  NO and many times NO. L.W. DiCaprio never been my idol. He is not my type absolutely. The first, middle and last name have been copied. ;)

Lesya, you know you are a groopie when  you know your idol’s middle name

Sebastien de Poesie , oulala mon Dieu!

Your paragraph is screaming , too many Greats to bear,  I can’t even pronounce half of those names, let alone understand their work.

nimax, the poem you posted shocked me . There is not happy end or love or romantic feeling or depression…...... the short and unexpected end ;) 

Hollywood “Romeo & Juliet” with Leonardo W  DiCaprio 

I agree with Amy. Different people can understand a great poem differently and it’s maybe one of the characteristics of the art in general. If everyone gets same feeling and same idea from a poem, it would be more a journalistic text than poetic one.

Then, I’d like to share one of my favourite contemporary poems with you:

Cake

i wanted one life
you wanted another
we couldn’t have our cake
so we ate eachother. 

Roger McGough 

Of course, especially the poems and poets of the european romanticism, but also poets from other literary movements. I have many favourite poems like “Die Stille” by Rainer Maria Rilke, “Mir ist zu Licht um zu schlafen” by Achim von Arnim, “Waldfrevel” by Wilhelm Busch, “Gefunden” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti,  ”Sensation” by Arthur Rimbaud, “Correspondances” and ”Élévation” by Charles Baudelaire, “Ed è subito sera” by Salvatore Quasimodo, “Il sabato del villagio” and “La quiete dopo la tempesta” by Giacomo Leopardi…so it’s really hard to describe them all!!!

Ola,

This sounded like mnemonic poetry, more than anything

:)

 Ochestra I have never seen a “Romeo and Juliet” play. So I don’t know too much about the original plot; but I have seen the Hollywood  film with the same name, when I saw its  poster ,I could tell it wasn’t any of Shakespeare work  : ). Or it could have been that Shakespeare was wayyy ahead of his time…

Criz, are you leaving??? What a pity!!! See you, dear  byyyyyyyyyyye