poetry anyone?

[iwastooearlytobeayummymummy]

I love turning to poetry especially when I don't have time to read.
Anyone fancy making up a poetry thread?
Not sure about copyright and all that stuff, but here goes with a current favourite, as DD2 has just left home to study abroad

Walking Away by C Day Lewis

It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day ?
A sunny day with leaves just turning,
The touch-lines new-ruled ? since I watched you play
Your first game of football, then, like a satellite
Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away

Behind a scatter of boys. I can see
You walking away from me towards the school
With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free
Into a wilderness, the gait of one
Who finds no path where the path should be.

That hesitant figure, eddying away
Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,
Has something I never quite grasp to convey
About nature?s give-and-take ? the small, the scorching
Ordeals which fire one?s irresolute clay.

I have had worse partings, but none that so
Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly
Saying what God alone could perfectly show ?
How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.

I love that one too, and had forgotten it,it used to one of my DD1's favourites at bed time

Thank you for posting that C day-lewis poem iwastooearly - it is lovely

The sea one is really good too realeyes - who is that one by?

Love love love poetry too. There's a poetry group that meet monthly in my village & we met on Tuesday. I read from "Goblin Market" by Christina Rosetti. It's far too long to post on here, but worth a read. On the surface it's a warning not to buy fruit from strange little men, but methinks there's a lot more being said underneath! The ending is sickly sweet, though.