Violet Moodswing at Old Poetry

My other items

1 - 3 of 55 Show all

lamentations of stupidity at allpoetry
it sings us to sleep in swallows
without strings at allpoetry
she gave him money he bought drugs
Column: Go for the Gold--Show us your Primary Colors at storywrite
A chance to win a 1 month Gold or Silver membership.

Link inside--come on in.

1 - 4 of 2

on So You Want To Be A Writer by Charles Bukowski, on July 15
Lol, perhaps he never found one worth keeping
on The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy, on March 4, 2006

One of my favorites
This poem has been a favorite of mine since the first time I read it in Jr. High. It makes some hard points about war that are often never taken into consideration. It is one of those timeless pieces that still applies to times of war and it is written in a way that the language is easily discernable by deciphering meanings of old expression in context. I never even looked up the words like nipperkin until I was much older and realized I had no clue what a nipperkin was.

Basically the piece forces us to consider the fact that the enemy is generally just a bunch of people just like ourselves. It examines the absurdity of killing strangers who are probably just as likeable as we are. For so many people around the world, the military is simply a job sought out because a person had no better way to support themselves or their families.
on About new snow by Kobayashi Issa, on December 19, 2005
Had I lived during his lifetime, this guy would have been my friend. I love his stuff.
on Second Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay, on August 25, 2005
To the best of my knowledge this poem is actually a set. My first reading of it as a child was in an old poetry book that listed both the first and second fig paired together under the title Figs from Thistles.