Poems that you love

[milo]

You not liking Heaney makes me sad. It also makes me feel a need to post some of my Heaney favourites.

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Too lazy to find a transcript for it, but I quite like this one.

For me, this seems like a stand up comedy routine, not a poem. Have you watched Nate Bergatze? Very funny.

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Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney

Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.
Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.

They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair
And made an exhibition of its coil,
Let the air at her leathery beauty.
Pash of tallow, perishable treasure:
Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod,
Her eyeholes blank as pools in the old workings.
Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease with the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.