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[mistymassey]

Gacked from eldritchhobbit:

When you see this, comment with a poem you love or post one in your own journal to encourage the proliferation of random poetry through your flist.


There's always room for random poetry!

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

Comments

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Love this! Thank you! Poetry rules!!

Here's a link to Coleridge's Kublai Khan which is just magical!

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

What does "gacked" mean in this case? I thought it meant "killed."

Here is my favorite poem...really worth reading if you haven't: The Fairy's Seige by Kipling. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fairies-siege/

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

In LJ-speak, it means "taken". So if you posted the challenge on your LJ, you would be gacking it from me. :D