Poems (Translated) From the Sanskrit

Here's a link to poems from the Sanskrit I've read for Youtube--all very short, and all (or most) from John Brough's wonderful translation--Poems From the Sanskrit--from Penguin, a book that should be on poetry-readers' shelves, in my presumptuous opinion:


Sanskrit poems

Langston Hughes's Poems--Youtube

Here is a link to the poems by Langston Hughes that I've read for my Youtube channel (which is named langstonify, after all)--and grateful acknowledgement is hereby sent to Knopf and the Estate of Langston Hughes; if you don't own Hughes's Selected or Collected yet, you might want to get them.  --A highly under-rated poet, still.

Hughes poems

Amusing Poems

Here is a link to some amusing poems (well, I think they are) that I've read on my Youtube channel:

Humorous Poems

"Prophecy," by Elinor Wylie

"The Coast Starlight," by Hans Ostrom

Animal Poems

Here is a link to the "Animal Poems" playlist on my youtube channel, langstonify. By the way if you're a) a poet, b) stuck regarding what to write about and c) interested in getting un-stuck, writing a poem about a creature, any creature, usually gets things going, although a pet-creature is not always the best way to go.


Animal Poems

How Novels Begin: MIDDLEMARCH, by George Eliot

"The Poet," by Paul Laurence Dunbar

How Novels Begin: EMMA, by Jane Austen

Poems About Money and Work

Here's a link to poems (chiefly by others) I've read for Youtube that concern money and/or work:

Money/Work Poems Playlist

How Novels Begin: BARRABAS, by Pär Lagerkvist

Love Poems/Erotic Poems

...So I've recorded around 500 poems for Youtube now, chiefly poems by others, and I've begun to categorize them in the "Playlists" category, and one of the categories is "Love Poems/Erotic Poems," in case anyone asks.

How Novels Begin: WAR AND PEACE, by Leo Tolstoy