Hey everyone! Since I am a poetry fan, I'll be posting some of my favorite poems here for all of you to enjoy as well.
If We Must Die
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! --Claude McKay (1919) Eros I call for love But help me, who arrives? This thug with broken nose And squinty eyes. 'Eros, my bully boy, Can this be you, With boxer lips And patchy wings askew?' 'Madam,' cries Eros, 'Know the brute you see is what long overuse Has made of me. My face that so offends you Is the sum Of blows your lust delivered One by one. We slaves who are immortal Gloss your fate And are the archtypes That you create. Better my battered visage, Bruised but hot, Than love dissolved in loss Or left to rot --Anne Stevenson (1990)