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ALL-TIME 25 POETS
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 04:53 pm |
Haven't we been supposed to make LISTS of our favourite poets here, not to post poetry? We already have several poetry threads (like Informal Poetry and I Love You Poem). This one was meant for something else... please go and see the similar thread about prose here - we listed our favourite novels and had a small discussion about writers and reading. We were not posting novels.
Anyway, I thought it was kind of a rule on this site to post original text with translation to English or Turkish (or both). I liked the poem you posted, but I also think if we don't keep our threads tidy, we will not have right to protest if our admins decide to remove or even delete them.
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05 Mar 2007 Mon 04:13 am |
Continuing the initial thread, here my favorite poets. Unfortunately they don't reach the number of 25. But who knows if I have a look at the ones you all posted they will soon exceed this number...
My all favorite: Rainer Maria Rilke
then:
Friedrich Hölderlin
Joseph von Eichendorff
Silja Walter
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
William Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling
Nazım Hıkmet
Ãœmit Yaşar Oğuzcan
Orhan Veli Kanık
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10 Mar 2007 Sat 08:22 pm |
Sorry, do you really think, that Mayakovskiy was so great?
"Singer of revolution", he has so agressiv, without harmony...
2aiça: eh, Goelderlin's poetry was so patriotic!
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 01:29 am |
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 09:13 am |
Quoting Aslan: I love the peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo |
+1 I just recently, this past week, started reading his poetry. (Got a long list of things to read!!!) But, without doubt he's marvellous!
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 09:17 am |
Quoting duda: Haven't we been supposed to make LISTS of our favourite poets here, not to post poetry? We already have several poetry threads (like Informal Poetry and I Love You Poem). This one was meant for something else... please go and see the similar thread about prose here - we listed our favourite novels and had a small discussion about writers and reading. We were not posting novels.
Anyway, I thought it was kind of a rule on this site to post original text with translation to English or Turkish (or both). I liked the poem you posted, but I also think if we don't keep our threads tidy, we will not have right to protest if our admins decide to remove or even delete them. |
I don't think posting a poem is going against the idea of the thread. If there are rules and rule breakers perhaps we should start with the people who posted more than 25 as that is explicitly stated in the title of the thread as well! I find allowing it to evolve into posting a favorite piece, not some sappy homemade love sonnet, is also note worthy and thought provoking.
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 09:52 am |
...I am so sorry, duda...it will not happen again...I will not post any poems again in this thread, with or without translation...
I will control myself much better in the future!
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 06:50 pm |
...I wish I had the translation, but I don´t...
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 07:22 pm |
As much as understand Spanish, I think this is "Los heraldos negros" poem. But I don't know who translated it, if I find, I will add later.
Here you are, Aslan.
Black Messengers
There are in life such hard blows... I don't know!
Blows seemingly from God's wrath; as if before them
the undertow of all our sufferings
is embedded in our souls... I don't know!
There are few; but are... opening dark furrows
in the fiercest of faces and the strongest of loins,
They are perhaps the colts of barbaric Attilas
or the dark heralds Death sends us.
They are the deep falls of the Christ of the soul,
of some adorable one that Destiny Blasphemes.
Those bloody blows are the crepitation
of some bread getting burned on us by the oven's door.
And the man... poor... poor!
He turnes his eyes around, like
when patting calls us upon our shoulder;
he turns his crazed maddened eyes,
and all of life's experiences become stagnant, like a puddle of guilt, in a daze.
There are such hard blows in life, I don't know.
Cesar Vallejo
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 11:44 pm |
Is there any of you who regards and loves me as a poet?
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