Favorite+Poem+Project

​Favorite Poem Project

National Poem in Your Pocket Day 4/29 Since we've been busy finishing our critical papers, preparing and taking AP exams, we were forced to delay our "Poem in Our Pocket Day." We will now be reading and sharing our favorite poems on Monday, May 17. Please bring in a copy of a favorite poem to read and (briefly) discuss. Also, please post a copy of your poem or a link to this page.

Period 5: "snow" by e.e. cummings "Each and All" by R.W. Emerson "Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas (see discussion) "War and Peace" by Charles Bukowski "Poison Tree" by William Blake "Daughter, You Are Loved" by Roger Pinches "Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States" by Alan Ginsberg 'The New Regime" by Wendy Cope "Oh Sleeping Drunkard" by Kurt Vonnegut "Small Pain in my Chest" by Michael Mack "Jaberwocky" by Lewis Caroll "Us" by Shel Silverstein "Bleeding Hearts" by Christian LaMar "Sometimes" by Jenny Sharif [|"The Night has a Thousand Eyes"] by Francis William Bourdillon "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer "Ars Poetica" by Archibald McLeish "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost (Musical version by Eric Whitacre) "Song of Liberty" by William Blake "Illusion of Truth" "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost "Tis the Season" by Rachel Grande "Dimpleton the Simpleton" "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

Period 8: [|"anyone lived in a pretty how town"]" by e.e. cummings "Portrait for Two" by Rachel Grande "Bouffons Perpetuels" by Pierrot "Gift of the Seagull" by Mundi "Constellations are Rubbish" by Jay Foreman "Puzzle Piece" by Shel Silverstein "About the Irish" by Anonymous Numbers 5 and 16 by Catullus "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein "I Wish I Were a Cliff" "Forgotten Language" by Shel Silverstein "Morning Poem" by Daniel D. Curtis "Hip-hop-a-patamus" Brett and Jemaine (Flight of the Conchords) "The Butterfly" by Alex Murdoch "God" by Jack Kerouac "True Knowledge" by Oscar Wilde "Girl Pants" by Danny Bloom "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess "Untitled" by Egan Dunne "Rain" by Shel Silverstein "The Lost Generation" and "[|The Lost Generation Sucks"]