My recent interest in Amanda Gorman has renewed my interest in poetry and prose. Earlier this

[abqtommy]

evening I read the following quote that was used in a science fiction story but without attribution:

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

This is from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Act 4, Scene 3, 218-224 and this excerpt is spoken by the character
Brutus. I thought this quote is very fitting for our present times, especially the 6th line "And we must take the current when it serves," Yes!

And when I went to search for this writing it came right up! Gotta love that!

https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/there-tide-affairs-men

[Botany]

1. Joe B. loves poetry too

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https://julianpeterscomics.com/2021/01/20/joe-biden-reads-those-winter-sundays-by-robert-hayden/

[abqtommy]

2. Thanks!

[Botany]

6. If you can find it there is a longer clip of Joe and others speaking about what the poems means ...

... to them. Nice to have a thinker back.

[Karadeniz]

3. Now you've got me going. In one of Biden's campaign videos, he recites part of a poem. It was

Beautiful, but I can't remember anything except I think the poet was Irish. Anybody out there know what I'm thinking of?

It's not the poem in reply #1.

[Botany]

7. It might be, "The Cure at Troy" by Seamus

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[Karadeniz]

8. That's it!!! I wish my machine made relocating items easier. Thanks so much, Botony!

[turtleblossom]

4. She looks so young. I thought she was around 10 yrs old at first.

And I was like wow! She seems so beyond her years. She could be the next Maya Angelou.

[TigressDem]

5. My Favorite Poem....

Fog by Robert Frost


THE fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.






Imagery is always something that inspires and it is so succinct.

[abqtommy]

10. I remember seeing Robert Frost on tv reading one of his poems at the inauguration of

John F. Kennedy in 1961. I was 12 years old and it was the first time a poet performed at an inauguration.
Those were really the days... It was a very sunny windy day and the Chief Justice helped Frost by holding
onto his papers!

[TigressDem]

12. Cool!!

Yeah poetry can be it's own little moment or the distillation of emotions that grab one and pull you in.

A challenge to make it real and interesting.

[Karadeniz]

9. Not my favorite, but I still smile when I recite it in my head. It's a translation, maybe Robert

Graves, of a poem by Martial. Maybe the translator was Ben Johnson.

You told me, Maro,
Whilst you live
You'd not a single penny give.
But that, whene'er
You chanced to die,
You'd leave a handsome legacy.

You must be mad,
Beyond redress,
If my next wish you cannot guess!

[Atticus]

11. I, too, think it is fitting. Thanks for posting it. nt