Poem of the Day (December 31)

[Anonymous No.19662760]

What are your thoughts on this poem, /lit/?

The Playground Of Life XIX by Khalil Gibran

[Anonymous No.19662768]

>Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title.[5] He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.[d]
>As worded by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins, Gibran's life has been described as one "often caught between Nietzschean rebellion, Blakean pantheism and Sufi mysticism."[9] Gibran discussed different themes in his writings, and explored diverse literary forms. Salma Khadra Jayyusi has called him "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century,"[13] and he is still celebrated as a literary hero in Lebanon.[14] At the same time, "most of Gibran's paintings expressed his personal vision, incorporating spiritual and mythological symbolism,"[15] with art critic Alice Raphael recognizing in the painter a classicist, whose work owed "more to the findings of Da Vinci than it [did] to any modern insurgent."[16] His "prodigious body of work" has been described as "an artistic legacy to people of all nations."[17]
>Elvis Presley referred to Gibran's The Prophet for the rest of his life after receiving his first copy as a gift from his girlfriend June Juanico in July 1956.[134] His marked-up copy still exists in an Elvis Presley museum in Düsseldorf.[135] A line of poetry from Sand and Foam (1926), which reads "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you," was used by John Lennon and placed, though in a slightly altered form, into the song "Julia" from the Beatles' 1968 album The Beatles (a.k.a. "The White Album").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran

[MODERATOR (Official) !tsGpSwX8mo No.19662770]

poop contauiner (snned)

[Anonymous No.19662946]

Some of the enjambment seemed sloppy.

[Anonymous No.19663365]

>This is life.

[Anonymous No.19664288]

bump

[Anonymous No.19664300]

>>19662760
I appreciate you posting these poems every day OP. I like this one though it's not all that poemy, could maybe have been prose poem

[Anonymous No.19665108]

Is this any good?

[Anonymous No.19666726]

>>19662760
meh. also cvcks to pisslam
see you tomorrow poem-anon