http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it Just another bbPress community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 21:25:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-117099 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:55:54 +0000 filthymarine 117099@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I used to write poetry for all my fellow classmates in primary school, then as a teenager, My friends and I speak in rhyme ( I know, sad really) It's just enjoying speech!<br /> <br /> I think poetry is a celebration of language and expression. It's clay in our hands really. There is a great podcast actually, on iTunes, &quot; Classic Poetry Aloud&quot; . I listen to it going into college every morning, tis wonderful!<br /> x http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-104035 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:07:35 +0000 PamJH 104035@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I too am...<em>trying</em>. Is trying good enough?</blockquote><br /> <br /> Of course it is. I just wrote 16 lines of the worst iambic pentameter with variations that anyone ever admitted writing. It was all part of an exercise in Stephen Fry's &quot;Ode Less Traveled.&quot; I had a good time doing it, though, which is precisely the point. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-103961 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:50:24 +0000 Katzeneurotic 103961@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I too am...<em>trying</em>. Is trying good enough? http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-101309 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:09:44 +0000 M.K. 101309@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Despite my pathological identification with Dorothy Parker, I used to think poetry was not for me and prose was definitely more suitable (though I've been published just once as a novelist and I'm still refusing to give my stuff to editors again because my <em>labor limae</em> is maniacally slow) - I think I've started to write down something vaguely poetry-alike when I fell in love for the first time (alas alas, the devastating effect of love strikes again!) - though I like the definition &quot;monologues-trying-hard-to-keep-the-canzone-type-of-verse &quot; best. Anyway I'm pretty proud of one of those, the &quot;Ode In Odio di Cupido&quot; (&quot;Ode In Hate of Cupid&quot;), pity it's written in Italian (see, rather good excuse not to post it, how coward of me). <br /> <br /> Love, <br /> M.K. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-90383 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:52:16 +0000 Dick Dastardly 90383@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Yes, for some reason I found peace in writing and reading poetry in 96-97 at the age of 32! It was, I found, meditative and soothing to creatively record my observations. The beauty of poetry was, in my mind at least, akin to adding colour to a black and white sketch - it brought things descriptively to life. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-85641 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:52:43 +0000 susanstewart1 85641@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I have been known to keep a usually tattered yet quite quaint little book with me for writing verses, i would never let any one read them of course, accept the ones i write for people. i find writing poetry and songs therapeutic some how i find my self unable to write creatively if i keep a diary or journal, http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-80572 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:55:06 +0000 Nitro 80572@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I started writing at the age of six and have never, ever stopped. Some days I fucking hate the fact that I do and this is one of them. Pardon my naughty language. I guess my answer to the question posed by the author of this thread is,&quot;Yes.&quot; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-66300 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:57:21 +0000 Fryed-And-Tested 66300@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ My poems are awful! The one I wrote for Hugh is not that bad, but most of them are atrocious. Like this poem of thanks, for example:<br /> <br /> I don’t know how to thank you<br /> For all the things you’ve done<br /> You always kept me in your thoughts<br /> When times were not so fun<br /> I know this little poem<br /> Is not enough to say<br /> How much I value your support<br /> Each and every day<br /> <br /> :-// http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-66297 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:13:52 +0000 Catt_H 66297@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ i write a lot of poetry now as a stress reliever to get things out of my head and somewhere physical.<br /> <br /> Only trouble is, though i am rather proud of them, i can't show them to anyone because they mainly revolve around such themes as contemplating jumping under trains and my psychotic mother, so anyone informed as of the contents might be a little disturbed and give me a wide berth in future... http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-58323 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:40:32 +0000 Fryed-And-Tested 58323@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Since becoming my Sixth Form's Poet Laurie... oops, sorry, Laureate, I haven't actually been asked to write anything... but I did write something when I read the latest interview with Hugh in Radio Times. It started out sounding promising, in my own head, but now that I re-read it, it doesn't seem that great.<br /> <br /> <strong>Dear Mister Laurie</strong><br /> <br /> Dear Mister Laurie<br /> Please don’t you worry<br /> I think you’re super; you’re great<br /> Though times are trying<br /> And you’ve felt like crying<br /> Please don’t succumb to self-hate<br /> <br /> I’m sending you love<br /> Of the highest degree<br /> I’m sending you peace; you’re respected<br /> I’m sending you hugs from across the sea<br /> To help you stop feeling dejected<br /> <br /> Though you don’t know me<br /> And we’ve never met<br /> I still found a best friend in you<br /> A time when we’ll meet<br /> I’m not sure if I’ll get<br /> But just know that I would like to<br /> <br /> ***<br /> I've also tried what I think is prose poetry. Here's one I did ages ago...<br /> <br /> <strong>The Coffee Grows Cold</strong><br /> <br /> The coffee cup warms my hands; winter-chilled air swirls and fogs the window.<br /> Music whispers, soft and sweet; ‘Hello darkness’; the clouds grow huge.<br /> Leaves rustle in the icy wind; the breeze blows sharp and cold in my face.<br /> Night draws in; the stars emerge; specks of light against endless indigo.<br /> I am tired; the coffee grows cold; I sleep and dream unbelievable dreams. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-53769 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:18:28 +0000 CAROL. E. G. 53769@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I write poems for my pleasure and hopefully for other peoples'enjoyment.<br /> i have posted over 90 poems on facebks poetry shout application on all sorts of subjects &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-52354 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:59:37 +0000 SidewalkProphet 52354@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <strong>Ever Missed</strong><br /> <br /> Mother can you hear me, from your place amidst the stars,<br /> Have you watched my days and nights go by without you,<br /> Have you listen to my whispers have you answered all my cries,<br /> Have you been with me when I have talked about you.<br /> <br /> Mother do you miss me as much as I miss you,<br /> Do you see in me the girl you left behind,<br /> Were you there when I was grieving, did you catch my every tear,<br /> Did you feel the sad goodbyes I couldn't find.<br /> <br /> Mother can you see me, can you see who I am now,<br /> Can you see the woman you helped me become,<br /> Will you be there when I marry, when my own children are born,<br /> Will you meet me, when my own time has come.<br /> <br /> Mother do not worry, I have never been alone.<br /> I have my family from winter until fall<br /> I have the strength you gave me, the love that you instilled,<br /> I am my mothers daughter after all<br /> <br /> <strong>Beautiful Boy</strong><br /> <br /> Such charm, such sweet and perfect grace,<br /> So beautiful in spirit and face,<br /> All angels seek your sweet embrace,<br /> To be the one you love.<br /> <br /> Each breath, each soft and subtle sigh,<br /> Makes every heart begin to fly,<br /> From now until the day you die,<br /> They'll shine down from above. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-51816 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:31:47 +0000 SidewalkProphet 51816@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ We Will - the best poem I have read in years.</blockquote><br /> <br /> wow.... don't know what to say.... *blushes* http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-51795 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:59:43 +0000 Saturn 51795@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <strong>Calamity </strong><br /> <br /> When I hear your name,<br /> My heart skips a beat,<br /> When I write it down,<br /> It pounds twice as fast.<br /> <br /> When I hear your voice<br /> My lungs just collapse,<br /> Legs subside, wobble.<br /> <br /> My delicate heart shakes,<br /> Like an old abandoned<br /> Tunnel wholly caves in:<br /> <br /> I've been so undermined<br /> By your sweet cunning <br /> And ruinous earthworks.<br /> <br /> When you do that swift<br /> Demolition work, you<br /> Always do it oh so well.<br /> <br /> I'm condemned property<br /> With the wreckers ball<br /> Hovering o'er my head,<br /> In danger of a crash.<br /> <br /> My love you've made me<br /> A walking calamity.<br /> _______ http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-anyone-here-guilty-of-it#post-51790 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:48:56 +0000 Saturn 51790@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Blimey did I post that twice? X-D <br /> <br /> Mods - please remove one of those posts!!