Favorite Poet/Poem?

[Idleheim]

The only poem to ever really make me smile is "My Religion", by Joseph Ferdinand Gould, which I shall entirely recite forthwith:

In the winter, I'm a Buddhist
In the summer, I'm a nudist!

R.I.P. Joe Gould, for Lord knows you certainly did not in life.

[Nathrad Sheare]

To LadyErin10:

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darkened wholly,
Turned to towered Camelot.
For ere she reached upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,
The Lady of Shalott.

Tennyson is one of my very favorite poets, and The Lady of Shalott was my introduction to his work. Loreena McKennit put the entire poem in a song and there I first enjoyed the verses on that soul ever absorbed in Camelot. Wonderful stuff.

[N_Simpson21]

My favorite poem is "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy. I really enjoy his works.

[Bibliophile97]

My favorite poems are To This Day by Shane Koyczan and The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

[chelseabee45]

I like e.e. cummings a lot. " I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart ."

[Hunnie911]

Footprints in the sand <3

[Valerie_Joy]

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

[Going Social]

One of my favorite poems is "life After Love" by Caribbean poet and nobel laureate for literature, Derek Walcott. The poem speaks of self abandon and self neglect and encourages the reader to revisit their relationship with their self, to be gentle with and show appreciation to their self. Too often in the process of life, we lose or forget our own self or forget to give generously or nurture our own self. I think it is a beautiful poem about love.

[plefkowitzx]

My favourite poem at the moment is Slow Dance by David L. Weatherford.

[H0LD0Nthere]

Bob Dylan: "Mr. Tambourine Man."

Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
The foggy ruins of time
Past the haunted, frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach
Of crazy sorrow.
Yeah, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today
Until tomorrow ...

OK, it's clearly about a drug trip, but it's so beautifully expressed, I love it.

-- 08 Mar 2014, 21:19 --

I also love "If" by Rudyard Kipling ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry is kind of hard to get into, but there was something about his poem "The Grandeur of God" that made me want to keep reading it until I "got" it. Once I did, I was so glad I had. There is a lot of cacophony in it, which makes it hard to get into at first, but fun once you do.

... there lives the dearest freshness deep down things
And though the last lights off the black West went
O, morning, o'er the brown brink Eastward, springs
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
world broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings.

[scriptbunny]

I don't usually do favorites but Ash Wednesday by TS Eliot is the best poem I've read in a while.

[SoftCoyote]

My favorite poet is William Blake. And for poem it would be "The Tyger".

I loved it so much once that I memorized it and would recite it randomly to people just because.

[kismoody]

Some might argue with him being a poet, but mine is Shel Silverstein

[H0LD0Nthere]

Some might argue with him being a poet, but mine is Shel Silverstein

Of course Shel is a poet!! A brilliant one! And one of my favorite poems by him is "A Boy Named Sue."

[MaiMccoy96]

My favorite poet of all time would have to be Maya Angelou because her poems are so empowering and they really make you think carefully.
I myself love any poetry that holds a powerful truth whether its about society or it makes you realize something new about life.