Poetry and Storytelling by Kai
WORDS BY KAI. This site is the home of creative expression fueled by passion and inspired by the sparks of a my starlight muse. On these pages you will find my creative voice in lines of poetry, thoughtful essays and commentary, creative storytelling, and in an array of beautiful words to inspire the logophile in us all.
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Commentaries and essays on a variety of topics including parenting, the capacity for love, emotions, mindfulness and social issues.
CLASSIC & MODERN POETRY
AT A GLANCE - PART 1
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. - James Gates Percival
Poets have always sought to express the essence of the human condition and the full range of human experience. The words have an ability to capture abstract emotions and concrete experiences that represent our humanity. We We can use the messages to help us to clarify and understand our own experiences. And classic poetry has a grace and beauty that transcends time.
Poetry speaks to the soul. Poetry can hurt and it can heal. Poetry can express complex emotions intense joy or grief, love and passion, or happiness or melancholy. Classic poetry opens our eyes and our hearts to times past while reminding us that human nature remains essentially the same.
Poetry is a structured language that unifies word sounds (rhyming, alliteration, assonance, anaphora, etc.) or contains a regular rhythm using meter, which includes counting of stresses or syllables while conveying a specific theme. It often using literary devices such as similes, metaphors, personification, allegory, satire, etc.
See Also (External Links)
10 Greatest Poems Ever Written
10 Greatest Love Poems
20 Classic Poems Every Man Should Read
Classic Poems We Should All Know
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1598)
”Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove...”
- Christopher Marlowe
A Red, Red Rose (1794)
“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June...”
- Robert Burns
Kubla Khan (1797)
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1804)
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills...”
- William Wordsworth
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)
"a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'"
- John Keats
Jabberwocky (1871)
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe....”
- Lewis Carroll
CLASSIC POETRY THAT SPEAKS TO ME
I wish you to know
that you have been
the last dream of my soul.
-Charles Dickens
She walks in beauty, like
the night
of cloudless climes and
starry skies
And all that’s best of dark
and bright
Meet in her aspect and
her eyes
-Lord Byron
You are the finest,
Loveliest, tenderest
And most beautiful
person I have ever known -
And even that
Is an understatement
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
love is a place
& through this place
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
and in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
(all worlds)
-e.e. cummings
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
-Anne Bronte
We would be together
and have our books
and at night be warm
in bed together
with the windows open
and the stats bright.
-Ernest Hemingway
The woods are lovely
dark and deep
But I have promise I have to keep
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost
You may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
You may kill me with your hatefulness
But still, like life, I will rise
-Maya Angelou
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
-Langston Hughes
MODERN INDEPENDENT POETRY
The Internet has given independent poets the opportunity to publish their work to an audience around the world. This platform has been a gift to all writers (myself included) because our work might have never been formally published. Google poetry and click on Images and you will see an endless array of poetry that has depth and meaning and is composed of beautiful words. Because these are modern poems you’ll identify with the themes and can apply the messages in your own life.
Only in my pain
did I find my will.
Only in my chaos
did I learn to be still.
Only in my fear
did I find my might.
Only in my darkness
did I find my light.
- T.M.T
When I saw you first
it took every ounce of me
not to kiss you
When I saw you laugh
it took every ounce of me
not to fall in love
And when I saw your soul
it took every ounce of me.
-Atticus
You are the poem
I never knew how to write
And this life is the story
I have always wanted to tell
-Tyler Khott Gregson
I remember clearly
The day that we met
The words that were spoken
The emotions left unsaid
I remember clearly
The excite that was felt
The way you made me smile
The way my heart would melt
I remember clearly
The wonder, the anticipation
The way I was alive
With joy and pure elation
I remember clearly
All the ways you made me feel
As if it were yesterday
Cause after all this time
I feel that way still
- Unknown
You can never feel
All the ways in which
I love you, just as you
Can never touch
The infinite stars, but I
Promise you, my love,
That I will light your
Skies, and show you
Every one
- A.R. Asher
She had a wild, wandering soul
But when she loved
She loved with chaos
And that made all the difference
- Ariana
I love you in ways
You’ve never been loved
For reasons you’ve never been told
For longer than you think you deserved
And with more than you will ever know existed
Inside me
- Unknown
I didn’t know what love felt like
until he filled my heart
with pieces of himself
I’ve never known such fullness
an ocean of feelings overflowing
into the emptiest parts of me
-Christy Ann Martine
I look up at the stars
and think of you tonight
wishing I could see the light
reflected in your eyes.
How I long to touch you
hold your body close to mine
as we share our love together
beneath the perfect sky.
-John Mark Green &
Christy Ann Martine
Poets have always sought to express the essence of the human condition and the full range of human experience. The words have an ability to capture abstract emotions and concrete experiences that represent our humanity. We We can use the messages to help us to clarify and understand our own experiences. And classic poetry has a grace and beauty that transcends time.
Poetry speaks to the soul. Poetry can hurt and it can heal. Poetry can express complex emotions intense joy or grief, love and passion, or happiness or melancholy. Classic poetry opens our eyes and our hearts to times past while reminding us that human nature remains essentially the same.
Poetry is a structured language that unifies word sounds (rhyming, alliteration, assonance, anaphora, etc.) or contains a regular rhythm using meter, which includes counting of stresses or syllables while conveying a specific theme. It often using literary devices such as similes, metaphors, personification, allegory, satire, etc.
See Also (External Links)
10 Greatest Poems Ever Written
10 Greatest Love Poems
20 Classic Poems Every Man Should Read
Classic Poems We Should All Know
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1598)
”Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove...”
- Christopher Marlowe
A Red, Red Rose (1794)
“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June...”
- Robert Burns
Kubla Khan (1797)
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1804)
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills...”
- William Wordsworth
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)
"a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'"
- John Keats
Jabberwocky (1871)
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe....”
- Lewis Carroll
CLASSIC POETRY THAT SPEAKS TO ME
I wish you to know
that you have been
the last dream of my soul.
-Charles Dickens
She walks in beauty, like
the night
of cloudless climes and
starry skies
And all that’s best of dark
and bright
Meet in her aspect and
her eyes
-Lord Byron
You are the finest,
Loveliest, tenderest
And most beautiful
person I have ever known -
And even that
Is an understatement
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
love is a place
& through this place
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
and in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
(all worlds)
-e.e. cummings
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
-Anne Bronte
We would be together
and have our books
and at night be warm
in bed together
with the windows open
and the stats bright.
-Ernest Hemingway
The woods are lovely
dark and deep
But I have promise I have to keep
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost
You may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
You may kill me with your hatefulness
But still, like life, I will rise
-Maya Angelou
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
-Langston Hughes
MODERN INDEPENDENT POETRY
The Internet has given independent poets the opportunity to publish their work to an audience around the world. This platform has been a gift to all writers (myself included) because our work might have never been formally published. Google poetry and click on Images and you will see an endless array of poetry that has depth and meaning and is composed of beautiful words. Because these are modern poems you’ll identify with the themes and can apply the messages in your own life.
Only in my pain
did I find my will.
Only in my chaos
did I learn to be still.
Only in my fear
did I find my might.
Only in my darkness
did I find my light.
- T.M.T
When I saw you first
it took every ounce of me
not to kiss you
When I saw you laugh
it took every ounce of me
not to fall in love
And when I saw your soul
it took every ounce of me.
-Atticus
You are the poem
I never knew how to write
And this life is the story
I have always wanted to tell
-Tyler Khott Gregson
I remember clearly
The day that we met
The words that were spoken
The emotions left unsaid
I remember clearly
The excite that was felt
The way you made me smile
The way my heart would melt
I remember clearly
The wonder, the anticipation
The way I was alive
With joy and pure elation
I remember clearly
All the ways you made me feel
As if it were yesterday
Cause after all this time
I feel that way still
- Unknown
You can never feel
All the ways in which
I love you, just as you
Can never touch
The infinite stars, but I
Promise you, my love,
That I will light your
Skies, and show you
Every one
- A.R. Asher
She had a wild, wandering soul
But when she loved
She loved with chaos
And that made all the difference
- Ariana
I love you in ways
You’ve never been loved
For reasons you’ve never been told
For longer than you think you deserved
And with more than you will ever know existed
Inside me
- Unknown
I didn’t know what love felt like
until he filled my heart
with pieces of himself
I’ve never known such fullness
an ocean of feelings overflowing
into the emptiest parts of me
-Christy Ann Martine
I look up at the stars
and think of you tonight
wishing I could see the light
reflected in your eyes.
How I long to touch you
hold your body close to mine
as we share our love together
beneath the perfect sky.
-John Mark Green &
Christy Ann Martine
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