Meme from thieving_gypsy

One of my favourite memes ever: When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your blog.

The Tides Run Up the Wairau

The tides run up the Wairau
That fights against their flow.
My heart and it together
Are running salt and snow.

For though I cannot love you,
Yet, heavy, deep, and far,
Your tide of love come swinging,
Too swift for me to bar.

Some thought of you must linger,
A salt of pain in me,
For oh what running river
Can stand against the sea?

-- Eileen Duggan

AND

The Active Voice

It's true you can't live here by chance,
you have to do and be, not simply watch
or even describe. This is the city of action,
the world headquarters of the verb -

look at the sea, frantic with masts and sails,
the land galloping down to it, gorse flowers
flying, wind in its mane of flax; and then,
there it is, crags with their feet in

the water getting breath for the next
round. Swimmers here swim, they don't loll
about, wind surfers likewise skim, plunge,
the very gulls are wilder than most, they

hardly land; or if they do that too is a kind
of flight, the arm of the wind coming up
and ruffling their frills - the wind, yes indeed,
incorrigible voyeur that never goes home.

- Lauris Edmond

AND, because I just saw it on greatpoets and I love it:

since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laughleaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

-- e e cummings

Icons!

As I was re-reading poetry and browsing posticonic (BEAUTIFUL ICONS. *pimpage*), I came to the conclusion that the most perfect combination in the world is deutscheami's bases and... well, a lot of different poems, it turns out. So I spent an hour this afternoon putting the two together with varying degrees of success, and here are some of the better ones.

ALL OF THE BASES UNDER THE CUT ARE FROM posticonic. PLEASE CREDIT THERE. Other credit, as usual, is lovely but optional; commenting is even better.

Teasers:

( 17 icons under the cut, cummings, duggan, edmond, others )