When Cheryl Dring announced this Poetry forum, first to my mind was " Humor " by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (see below). Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony #13 around the poems of Yevtushenko including the symphony's title poem, Babi Yar ( http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm ). "Humor"...

Here are some from Sappho that have stuck with me since I read them in a college literature course. They're short and very sweet: 9: Although they are Only breath, words which I command are immortal 56: Day in, day out I hunger and I struggle 60: You may forget but Let me tell you this: someone in...