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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Schiller's song of the Bell is his longest poem, a 430 stanza epic about building a church bell that describes the process in technical detail and uses it as a metaphor for society. Here's an English translation:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89081025074&seq=13

My favorite poem is the condensed version. Loosely translated:

dig a hole
pour bronze in
bell is done
ding dong ding

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I like these two a lot. Mainly because they're the only two that stuck with me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L(a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Song_of_J._Alfred_Prufrock

[–] FookReddit69@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

The poop that took a pee - Butters

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"The Chaos"

Because English will fuck you up.

[–] g_the_b@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Pale Fire, because I'm a try hard poser I think

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
So wie die Ordnung stets in Chaos geht,
wenn keine Kraft dagegen steht,
so herrscht das Chaos nie allein:
Es braucht die Ordnung, um zu sein.
Das Chaos, das sich selbst bezwingt,
indem es langsam Ordnung bringt,
gebiert aus Dunkelheit und Dreck
schön langsam, aber stetig, Form und Zweck,
kurz: Leben, das sich selbst erhält,
und auch im Sturme Kraft behält,
um nach dem Regen neu zu blühn,
so wie auch wir es alle tun.
[–] unn@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
Little potato when it is born
Spreads its branches on the ground
Little girl when she sleeps
Puts her hand on her heart

I am tiny
The size of a button
I carry daddy in my pocket
And mommy in my heart

The pocket got a hole
And daddy fell on the ground
Mommy who is the dearest
Stayed in my heart
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[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

lighght

because it messes with my brain just righght

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Here I sit, same as ever. Took a dump, pulled the lever. The toilet clogged. The water flowed. Look out world, it's a motherload!.

Why is it my favorite? I have no idea... Probably because I'm awful.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

There was a young lady from Venus, Whose body was shaped like a - DATA!

-Star Trek TNG & Picard

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

Billy Connolly's "Mary Rose"

Mary Rose
Sat on a pin
Mary rose

[–] Tazerface@lemmings.world 0 points 4 months ago

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

How much shit could a dipshit dip if a dipshit could dip shit.

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