I like poems.
Nov. 19th, 2008 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI do! I memorize them, and I read them, and I recite them.
I was in the bookstore, anyway, thinking about the books I'll buy month after next. Ana's proven to be madly in love with Shel Silverstein - she worked her way through Runny Babbit as I read it, and that's a bard hook! - so I was thinking I'll get his opus used, and then I saw some Prelutzky.
I had a book by him as a kid, I'm thinking, so I pick it up and flip through it. Mind you, the *only* thing I remembered by him was "a bouncing mouse is in my house". And yet, I saw one page. I saw the title: Homework. And instantly, years since I've read it (and I know I never tried to memorize this one, I lost the book before I realized one could just *do* that), the first line sprang to mind:
Homework, o homework, I hate you! You stink!
*giggles*
Oh, well, I never did do my homework as a kid!
It's amazing the things that stick in the mind, though, isn't it?
I was in the bookstore, anyway, thinking about the books I'll buy month after next. Ana's proven to be madly in love with Shel Silverstein - she worked her way through Runny Babbit as I read it, and that's a bard hook! - so I was thinking I'll get his opus used, and then I saw some Prelutzky.
I had a book by him as a kid, I'm thinking, so I pick it up and flip through it. Mind you, the *only* thing I remembered by him was "a bouncing mouse is in my house". And yet, I saw one page. I saw the title: Homework. And instantly, years since I've read it (and I know I never tried to memorize this one, I lost the book before I realized one could just *do* that), the first line sprang to mind:
Homework, o homework, I hate you! You stink!
*giggles*
Oh, well, I never did do my homework as a kid!
It's amazing the things that stick in the mind, though, isn't it?
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Date: 2008-11-20 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 04:09 am (UTC)Something BIG has been here, what is was do not know, for I did not see it coming and I did not see it go...
I memorize and recite poems too. My favorite to say aloud (usually by myself) is the Jabberwocky. One I really like to think about now and then, for the imagery, is Pit Ponies by William Greenway. I can't really find it online except a few horrible sites like this one (http://www.etext.org/Poetry/CAPA/Greenway.WhereWeveBeen). It's 1/3 of the way down.
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Date: 2008-11-20 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 04:09 am (UTC)Something BIG has been here, what is was do not know, for I did not see it coming and I did not see it go...
I memorize and recite poems too. My favorite to say aloud (usually by myself) is the Jabberwocky. One I really like to think about now and then, for the imagery, is Pit Ponies by William Greenway. I can't really find it online except a few horrible sites like this one (http://www.etext.org/Poetry/CAPA/Greenway.WhereWeveBeen). It's 1/3 of the way down.