Thread: Your Favourite Poets

I must say

Jim Morrison and Jack Kerouac and Shakespeare...

And of course Blake and...ahh...one more I really enjoyed...Tennyson.

I quite enjoy the works of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, and Alfred Tennyson. But that's just to name a few; I love poetry of all kinds, and am always open to read more. I also love the poetry of Emilie Autumn; many of her lyrics are wonderfully done, and some of her literary pieces I thought were brilliant as well.

Seamus Heaney. The first two lines of ' Digging' are the most powerful lines I personally have ever read. I would aspire to walk in their shadow If I could find the words my mind denies my lips!

I rather enjoy e.e. cummings as well . "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is my favorite <3.
Aside from him, I enjoy a lot of Poe, and Alexander Pope. Eloisa to Abelard by Pope is quite possibly my favorite poem <3.

Right now I am reading and enjoying Edna St.Vincent Millay. My favorites are her sonnets. I also love Dylan Thomas.

Ditto the Dylan Thomas. And Poe. And E.E. Cummings. Plus, Charles De Lint has a few poems in his short stories that are absolutely amazing.

Great poets you mentioned before! One of my favourites is Cavafy. Slept here means 'died'.

IN THE MONTH ATHYR

HARDLY can I read on the ancient stone. "Lo[r]d Jesus Christ". A "So[u]l" I discern.
"In the mo[nth] Athyr" "Leukiu[s] s[le]pt".
At the mention of the age "He li[ve]d years",
the Kappa Zeta* shows that young slept he.
Amidst the perished words I see "Hi[m] Alexandrean".
Afterwards three lines are there very mutilated;
but some words I make out- like "t[e]ars of ours", "grief",
then "tears" again, and "for [u]s the [f]riends sorrow".
It seems to me that Leukius was greatly loved.
In the month Athyr Leukius slept.


* KZ in Greek denotes 27.

Right now my favorite is Louise Gl&#252;ck. I also love Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens, Naomi Shihab Nye.

Wallace Stevens, Byron, Frost, Keats, Dickinson, and of course the Bard.

I love loads of poets. Top favourites would be Wallace Stevens, Louise Gluck, Jean Sprackland, Sylvia Plath, Kapka Kassabova...but that's just so far!

I am a big fan of Wilfred Owen

Anthem for Doomed Youth

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
-Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them: no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boysbut in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Shel Silverstein and Dr Seuss.

Oh yeah Silverstein is awesome. Right now I'm very into Sherman Alexi (who has some short stories that rock too!)

Edit: I totally forgot, T.S. Elliot (spelling apologies) I've been studying his Ash Wednesday for a bit now, its incredible.

e. e. cummings

Poe

Silverstein

Frost

Shakespeare

Bukowski
Silverstein
Jack Johnson (: