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Skyfyre
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Sitting in Michael's Lap

0 posted 2001-07-15 07:50 PM

What is/was the most eye-catching poem title you've ever seen ... and why?

(You may include "famous" poem or Passions poems, but please name the author if you can!)

Linda

... what if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about ...?

Janet Marie
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1 posted 2001-07-15 08:35 PM

William Shakespeare --

"Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make"

"When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought"
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L'Envoi
by: Rudyard Kipling
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Music, When Soft Voices Die
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And there are TOO MANY awesome titles from here at Passions to name them all but one of the best offerings from the challenges poems was
"Moonlight Shadows Dancing"
Something about that phrase is so cool and poetically lovely and the many poems that came from it were too.

Cool topic Linda

When your own emptiness is all thats getting through
There comes a point when youre not sure why youre still talking
I passed that point long ago

Ron

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2 posted 2001-07-15 08:45 PM

Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen

Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull by Lord Byron

Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray

If by Dull Rhymes Our English Must be Chained by John Keats

On a Poet's Lips I Slept by Percy Shelley

anonymousfemale
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Limbo

3 posted 2001-07-15 09:21 PM

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Vanity of Human Wishes - Samuel Johnson
The cry of the children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Strange Are The Ways Of Men - Robert Louis Stevenson

Psychopathic chickens are plotting against me...

Severn
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4 posted 2001-07-15 11:36 PM

The Muse of Distance - Alan Williamson...it's intense...and it moves like ripples on a lake...the muse of distance...aahhhh

Listen to the Warm - Rod McKuen...how does one listen to the warm???

Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen. Can a title scream any louder?

K

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hush
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since 2001-05-27

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5 posted 2001-07-16 01:26 AM

Dickinson never titled her poems. They were numbered. People just refer to them by first line.

Mine are:

Preface to a twenty volume suicide note; Amiri Baraka (hope I spelled that right!)

Homage to my hips; Lucille clifton

Pull My Daisy; Ginsberg/Kerouac/Cassidy

I am a Victim of Telephone; Ginsberg

A Hundred Collars; Frost (I'm not a big Frost fan, but that one really pulled me in)

Ode: My Barber's breath; David Cameron

everything's fine.

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Lady In White

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6 posted 2001-07-16 10:17 AM

Coming Close to the Earth..., McKuen

a very pulling feel....

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Poeminister
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7 posted 2001-07-16 12:43 PM

Moments of Vision - Thomas Hardy
Love's Alchemy  - John Donne
All is Truth  - Walt Whitman
Lover in all Shapes  - Goethe

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Ron

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8 posted 2001-07-16 01:04 PM

I thought of another, though it's certainly stretching the definition of "poetry" a bit further than usual. Still, if we are to learn to write better titles through example, I think this one should definitely be included.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

brian madden
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9 posted 2001-07-16 01:14 PM

in plaster- slyvia plath

to a young poet- RS thomas

do not go gently into the night -Dylan thomas.

September 1916 -WB Yeats.

Michael

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10 posted 2001-07-17 06:25 PM

I have to echo Ron here with:

Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull by Lord Byron

The title alone struck me because this is just not something you see everyday... or might expect to...LOL

The poem, itself, embodying the sarcasm, wit, and overall attitude of Lord Byron, has been a brand to memory and a favorite of mine since the first reading.
Michael

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Fading Away

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11 posted 2001-07-18 12:19 PM

Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be by Sara Van Gordon

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