Young Writers Society

Awww blakey is good. Ole' William... Love it.

But I quite like the stuff we did in GCSE cultural poems like "Halfe Caste" by... oh damn what is his name??
Oh yeah, John Agard.
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An absolute classic: Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Something else!

Worgs

This is going to sound really really stupid... but Carol Ann Duffy writes great poems!!! I mean.. ok some of them are a bit.. violent etc but the concept is really great xx

We did Stealing and We Remember Your Childhood Well by Duffy for GCSE and I can't believe how many different ways people took in the poems.

yeah i know.
There were some people in my class that just couldnt grasp what it meant. Then we went to watch her in performance (reading it) and with the emotion and feeling in her voice it suddenly made sense!

I really like Maya Angelou, as you can guess from my siggy.She'd probably have to be my favorite poet. Along with the poem I quote in my siggy, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,"I also love "Still I Rise" and "Phenomenal Woman."

But there's oodles of poets that I love... Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Robert Burns,Y.B. Yeats, Langston Hughes, Tennyson, Shakespeare, e.e.cummings, and... hmm... Dr. Suess! Well, I think he qualifies as a poet...

T.S. Elliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning."
Tennyson's "Locksley Hall."
Robert Burns' "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" (the band Nickel Creek made this into a great song).
Longfellow's "The Day is Done."
Frank o'Hara's "Why I Am Not A Painter."
and of course, Allan Ginsburg's "Howl."

My signature is also a very short and yet wonderful poem.

ooh I dunno. I don't have a favourite, shakespeare is still my top poet but... Hmm I'll get back to you on this one!

Lawrence Ferlinghetti!!!!!!!!!!
He's incredible. Amazing.
I'm in love with his words.

And Allen Ginsberg is pretty wonderful too.

Seamus Heaney is a poet that I like and especially Mid-Term break.

Clouds by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

saoirse wrote:Lawrence Ferlinghetti!!!!!!!!!!
He's incredible. Amazing.
I'm in love with his words.

And Allen Ginsberg is pretty wonderful too.

Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is a really good and powerful poem.

I've hardly read poetry by those proffesional poets.
But I'd say Rosabelle Illes is my favourite poet

Universal Truth by her is my fav

To tell you the truth I don't know any poets or poetry other than what I've read on this sight, so I'll have to say myself

Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Ogden Nash, Carl Sandburg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Langston Hughes, and Seamus Heaney are a few I like.