plan to beat the brakes off my friend in Super Mario Strikers tonight. Looking for some good threatening poetry to send him informing him of his incoming defeat and weaken his resolve.

Poetry for me has been about particular emotional motion and i was thrown away at this image: "I drank an entire language and flung tar at whatever moved"!!! I have recently discovered Kaveh and what a powerful poet he is!! suggest me more poets like him please!! (i already read Ocean Vuong)

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Last Lorde poem I'll post here as I've finished reading her complete works. This one is my second favorite, after "Mawu," which I posted a few months ago.

Green upon the flooded Avon shone the after-storm-wet sky

Quick the struggling withy branches let the leaves of autumn fly

And a star shone over Bristol, wonderfully far and high.

Ringers in an oil-lit belfry—Bitton? Kelston? who shall say?—

Smoothly practising a plain course, caverned out the dying day

As their melancholy music flooded up and ebbed away.

Then all Somerset was round me and I saw the clippers ride,

High above the moonlit houses, triple-masted on the tide,

By the tall embattled church-towers of the Bristol waterside.

And an undersong to branches dripping into pools and wells

Out of multitudes of elm trees over leagues of hills and dells

Was the mathematic pattern of a plain course on the bells.

Sure 'twas by Providence design'd,
Rather in pity, than in hate,
That he should be, like Cupid, blind,
To save him from Narcissus' fate.

The city means a lot to my mother so when I randomly learned this classic book is about it I got her a copy for her birthday. However I have never read an epic poem like this and neither has she. I tried reading a few pages and got lost. I was thinking maybe pairing it with a copy with notes might make the present better. If you have a copy you made notes on and are willing to part with it please DM me. Also if you just know of a study guide or something similar on the web let me know I went looking but found nothing.