Words & Poetry by Others

These are snippets of poems I like. I like them more for the rhythm and the sounds than for the meaning of the words necessarily.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name,
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular noun.
– T.S. Eliot, “The Naming of Cats”, final stanza

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men.
– William Allingham, “The Fairies”, first stanza

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts;
All on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
And took them quite Away.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”, first stanza

Other Poems Around the Web

Memories by Belfast David

Don’t Forget to Talk to You by Chloe Richmond

Plunder by DeadPoet88