Do you have a short poem that has stuck in your head..

[Laurabearz]

Love to eat them mousies Mousie's what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet. -- B. Kliban

 

[Keli]

Here's one my dad used to quote all the time when I was growing up:

I've never seen a purple cow
I hope I never see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see one than be one

 

[Beth76]

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy
Was he?

 

[beachbunny]

When I was in high school, I learned a Japanese poem that I'll never forget - mainly because a friend who had to memorize and recite it got it wrong - he added an extra "mo."

Su momo mo momo mo momo mo momo.

 

[katerkat]

I can do the first two stanzas of Paul Revere's Ride from memory. And I still remember where I mistakenly put a comma and got 10 points taken off.

 

[TarraLee]

Life is mostly froth and bubbles
two things stand like stone
kindness in another's troubles
and courage in your own.
(this one is the one on my signature now)



This is one I memorized in college, for my sorority, and it helps guide me when I think about the person I want to be:

To live constantly above snobbery of word or deed;
to place scholarship before social obligations and character before appereances;
to be, in the best sense, democratic rather than 'exclusive', and lovable rather than 'popular';
to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely,
to choose thoughtfully that course which occasion and conscience demand; to be womanly always; to be discouraged never;
in a word, to be loyal under any and all circumstances to my Fraternity and her highest teachings and to have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant note.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

The one I have always remembered I learned back in the late 70's, I think.

It's in Spanish...


Por una mirada ...
... el mundo
Por una sonrisa ...
... el cielo
Por un beso ...
... yo no sé
... que te diera
... por un beso


Translation:

For a look ...
... the world
For a smile ...
... the sky (heaven)
For a kiss
... I don't know
... what I would give you
... For a kiss

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Oh yes, I almost got expelled from Christian school in the 6th grade

The moon may kiss the stars on high
The stars may kiss the bright blue sky
The bright blue sky may kiss the grass
But, you my friend, may kiss my a**

I think I may get that etched on my grave

NOT good to read while drinking hot coffee!!!Thanks for the laugh, Pooh Girl

 

[LindsayDunn228]

It's not a poem, but I took German in college and I had to recite The Lord's Prayer in German. I still remember it. Nutty eh?

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Keli beat me to "The Purple Cow"!!! BUT here is the sequel!!

Ah Yes! I wrote the Purple Cow
I'm sorry now I wrote it
But I can tell you anyhow
I'll kill you if you quote it.


Robin M.

 

[Tinks]

TarraLee---You weren't a Chi-O, now were you? Omicron chapter here.


I always loved Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and the end sticks with me:


For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
of the beautiful Annabelle Lee,
An stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
of the beautiful Annabelle Lee.
And so all the night tide, I lay down by the side
of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.


It just haunts me. Beautiful!

 

[minniepumpernickel]

I like Haiku

blue seas
breakingwaves smell of rice wine
tonight's moon

So clear the sound
echoes to the big dipper
the filling block

 

[Stitch Inside]

Here lies the body of Mary Lee,
Died at the age of a hundred and three.
For fifteen years she kept her virginity,
Not a bad record for this vicinity.

Author unknown to me, recited by Quint in "Jaws"

 

[TarraLee]

Tinks, yep, I was a Chi O! Mu Delta chapter, have always loved the Symphony.


I have never heard the Purple Cow before this thread!

My dad says one (would probably get banned for writing the whole thing) but it starts with, "In days of old when Knights were bold, and condoms weren't invented..."

(this was the extent of his sex ed talk with us)

 

[Maleficent13]

"Twas brillig, and the slithy troves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe..."

Jabberwocky

 

[mrsv98]

A Pteranadon will show off its yawn
any time you request it,
Both you and your chair would fit inside there
Though I wouldn't suggest it!

Sandra Boyton from her "Snoozers" book, cracks me up everytime

More seriously, I know "Invictus" by heart and a few others. When I was teaching, we used to have Morning Ex (assembly) twice a week and we were required by the Head Master to take turns reciting poetry before the program.

 

[ophie]

Give me a minute?
A minute is cruel..
It challenges the wise man
And shows up the fool..
Lifetimes are changed,
Some canceled out..
All in that minute,
That seemed not to count......

Anyone know where this came from??

Google says they have no idea what you're talking about. Sorry.


Other than the partial that's in my siggy, I always remember this e.e. cummings poem

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af
fa
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s)
one
l

iness

Not that it's hard to remember... but when someone brings up poems, I always think of it.

 

[Steffi]

I remember a limerick from 6th grade:

There once was a lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger

 

[AuntieM03]

Thanks to the 50 million times I saw The Outsiders as a teen.

Nothing Gold Can Stay-Robert Frost

Natures first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaves a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.

I think that's pretty close anyway

 

[buzzlady]

Life's Clock

The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just where the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
To lose one's wealth is sad indeed:
To lose one's health is more:
To lose one's soul is such a loss
As no man can restore.
The present only is our own,
Live, Love, toil with a will --
Place no faith in 'tomorrow' --
For the clock may then be still.