poetry up the wazoo!

i have this thing for poetry.
those i absolutely like, i tend to memorize.

here are some of 'em.
the greatest hits.

-the arrow and the song

i shot an arrow into the air
it fell to earth i knew not where
for so swiftly it flew
the sight could not follow it in its flight

i breathed a song into the air
it fell to earth i knew not where
for who has sight so keen and strong
that could follow the flight of a song?

many years afterwards in an oak
i found the arrow still unbroke
and the song from beginning to end
i found again in the heart of a friend..

..i've known that one since i was a kid, never left my memory somehow..anyway, here's another one..this one i absolutely like..

-he wishes for the clothes of heaven

had i the heaven's embroidered cloths
enwrought with golden and silver light
the blue and the dim and the dark clothes
of night and light and the halflight

i would spread them under your feet
but i, being poor, have only my dreams
i have spread my dreams under your feet
tread softly, because you tread on my dreams..

..it's over a hundred years old so, lay off the english, it's like, all poetic and shit..

..i have this thing for great ideals too, here goes..

"..the world don't move to the beat of one drum, what might be right for you, may not be right for some. a man is born, he's a man of means. then along come two, they've got nothin' but their jeans. but they've got different strokes. it takes different strokes to move the world.."

..try to contemplate on the meaning of this ideal. it's deep, when you try to think about it. it's deep alright.