Non-English poetry is also welcome. Extra points if it's about non-political themes.

  • sailorfish [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Oh, I also have two favourite love poems:

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 29

    When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

    I all alone beweep my outcast state,

    And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

    And look upon myself and curse my fate,

    Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

    Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

    Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,

    With what I most enjoy contented least;

    Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

    Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

    (Like to the lark at break of day arising

    From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;

    For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

    That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

    And Rumi's poem about insomnia

    When I am with you, we stay up all night.

    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

    Praise God for those two insomnias!

    And the difference between them.

    And I really need to get into Tsvetaeva more, because I really love this poem of hers set to a melody.