hi, beliefnet entertainment... is that your god-given name?
i remember the poetry in motion series well! it used to be great during the commute to zone out and get lost in poetry on a rumbling train or bus.
am going to google poetry in motion and see what i turn up.
thanks for sharing. i will have to give this thread considerable thought b/c it is hard to narrow it down to one favorite... but i shall take the challenge seriously and play it as if it were the what if game, as in : WHAT IF YOU COULD ONLY READ AND REREAD ONE POEM EVERYDAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE? ( i like high stakes).
take care.
m22
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes" ~Sally Field
I first encountered this in the NYC subway about 15 years ago, as part of their "Poetry in Motion" campaign, which I miss greatly. I read it and set out to find it, and ended up discovering an amazing poet I hadn't read before.
It's Gwendolyn Brooks' "Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward.":
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
In honor of National Poetry Month, we'd love to know your favorite poem!
Mine is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
:::sigh::: It gets me every time....
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