still not king.

[whitereflection]

I like this bit from comeandgetmebabe's Boring System (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2963024/10/):
“People fall in love with people they shouldn’t fall in love with and people fall in love with the person they’re meant for. It’s as simple as that.”

“Love isn’t simple.”

“No it’s not,” she said. “But it’s not complicated.”

I also like this poem http://community.livejournal.com/greatpoets/1907686.html?thread=6056934#t6056934 and like the greatpoets community in general.

Have had the urge to write lately (AkuRoku stuff, and poetry, really want to do poetry), but the words/images/ideas just aren't in my head.

It got up to a (record-breaking) 80 yesterday. *80*. It is not yet spring. Yeah.

Spent most of the workday nodding off, so I suppose that means daylight savings time is still winning. 4-0, I think? I also suppose this means I should go sleep.

Comments

[joseishijin.livejournal.com]

I love Margaret Atwood! I can't believe I missed this post...but who would I choose? Teasdale? Sexton? Rich? Neruda? I am giddy just thinking about it, LOL!

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

What's sad is that as much as I love poetry, I am ignorant of so many major poets. These names you mention, I only know of Atwood (and only recently, thanks to the community) and Neruda. The others, I'm clueless.

If it wasn't something shown to me in high school or college, I'm clueless--especially since for both they seemed to focus most on older works. Hence why my favorites are those such as Poe, Coleridge, Carroll, Crane, etc. Elliott I only got into because of fanfiction, of all things, Kerouac and the other beats and Buchowski only because of my brother. I think some of the classic haiku are the only things I really discovered of my own exploration : /

So. Guess I need to do some searches of greatpoets and the web for those names next bit of free time I have so I can be more educated XD;

[joseishijin.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad - I am a total poetry freak and there are still tons of poets I've never heard of (thank you, greatpoets LJ!).

The time I've spent poring over poetry was time that I never learned how to play video games (for real, the most complex thing I can do is Tetris. I almost strangled my computer trying to play Myst). So, it's just a matter of spending time doing what makes you happy.

But any time you want me to send you a list of personal favorites, just ask - I will be all over that. LOL...