I don't really have a favorite poem, but I am partial to long epics that tell stories.
Here's a random poem I just picked out of a book:
The Prayer of the Cat
Lord, I am the cat. It is not, exactly, that I have something to ask of You! No- I ask nothing of anyone- but, if You have by some chance, in some celestial barn, a little white mouse, or a saucer of milk, I know someone who would relish them. Wouldn't You like someday to put a curse on the whole race of dogs? If so I should say, Amen
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
She has a few more "prayers of the ____" poems in this book, but meme likes cats, so.
Re: poetry thread
I don't really have a favorite poem, but I am partial to long epics that tell stories.
Here's a random poem I just picked out of a book:
The Prayer of the Cat
Lord,
I am the cat.
It is not, exactly, that I have something to ask of You!
No-
I ask nothing of anyone-
but,
if You have by some chance, in some celestial barn,
a little white mouse,
or a saucer of milk,
I know someone who would relish them.
Wouldn't You like someday
to put a curse on the whole race of dogs?
If so I should say,
Amen
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
She has a few more "prayers of the ____" poems in this book, but meme likes cats, so.