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It says a lot boys and girls, has anyone a fav and why?
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Pablo Neruda.
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it doesn't have to be spoken word, right? Many musicians are incredibly talented lyricists, which I would argue counts as poetry:
Bright Eyes
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows
Thom Yorke of Radiohead
to name a few that stand out in my head...
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I cannot choose one favorite poet because my tastes are so diverse. But here are a few whose poems I have enjoyed: Sara Teasdale Elizabeth Bishop Robert Frost Langston Hughes and more recently...Pablo Neruda 
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Neruda rocks!!! I also like Rafael Guillen and Octavio Paz, Emerson, Naomi Shihab Nye and Whitman......I could go on and on.......too many to mention...... 
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Honestly ... ?
The shithouse poet.
To me, it's funny, honest, real.
They make us smile, but never let others know we did.
And some of the best I've seen, are at bike rallies. Miami, Laconia, Stugis and even local rallies.
But then, what do I know !
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Jewel
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Charles Baudelaire - just knocks me down
and also a Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska - light and unforced but straight to the point - hmm, just like good parfum should be :)
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Bat you crack me up.
Here I sit all broken hearted
Tried to shit and only farted.
I like Tennyson. My husband reads him to me often and it's perfect.
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I LOVE Emily Dickinson, I know a lot of her stuff is raw, but is the rawness that intrigues me because it is real, one of my favourites is I felt a funeral in my brain, does anyone else like her?
I FELT a funeral in my brain,
And mourners, to and fro,
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
That sense was breaking through.
And when they all were seated,
A service like a drum
Kept beating, beating, till I thought
My mind was going numb.
And then I heard them lift a box,
And creak across my soul
With those same boots of lead, again.
Then space began to toll
As all the heavens were a bell,
And Being but an ear,
And I and silence some strange race,
Wrecked, solitary, here.
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I am a fan of Emily Dickinson as well, " because i could not stop for death" is one of my favorites of hers.
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For obvious reasons I prefer longfellows
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I don't know it,
but my feet show it.
Because they're longfellows.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay. She hypnotically illustrates the sometimes-exquisite battle between fantasy and reality. Liberation and captivity.
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Yes Emily Dickenson is wonderful and some of the poems are so short yet they say so much . She never saw the sea.
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Give us a longfellows poem, unless it's too dirty.
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OK, I'l go wash my 15D feet and give it to ya.
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 I meant from Pam, Bat.
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The arrow Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight
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Ogden Nash and Shel Silverstein
Enigma Man!!!
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Robert Frost....Walking through the woods on a snowy evening.....
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Rumi
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I have too many favorites, here are a few poets off the top of my head that I like, all different. Poetry is an a acquired taste from my point of view. Reading poetry is something you have to want to do. It often requires contemplation and like good songs, you want to read good poetry over and over. I consider music lyrics poetry
Diane Di Prima
Mary Oliver
Joy Harjo,
Emily Dickerson
Sarah McLachlan
Charles Bukowski
Charles Baudelaire
Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound
Bob Dylan
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Jim Stafford
 The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald
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Wilfred Owen. Beautiful, poignant, truthful poetry from World War I. Tragically, he was killed in the final days of the war, but his writing lives on. Also, T.S. Eliot, especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Oh, and of course, Bob Dylan.
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Jacque Prevert is my favorite at this time.
They are always changin around, depending in what mood I am, what kind of issues I have at the moment...
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WellMadeMale wrote:Jim Stafford  Wildwood Weed! Stafford grew up about 10 miles from where I live, he's a local celebrity. I think I've heard Wildwood Weed about a million times.
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e e cummings she being Brand -new;and you know consequently a little stiff i was careful of her and(having thoroughly oiled the universal joint tested my gas felt of her radiator made sure her springs were O. K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her up,slipped the clutch(and then somehow got into reverse she kicked what the hell)next minute i was back in neutral tried and again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg. ing(my lev-er Right- oh and her gears being in A 1 shape passed from low through second-in-to-high like greasedlightning)just as we turned the corner of Divinity avenue i touched the accelerator and give her the juice,good (it was the first ride and believe i we was happy to see how nice she acted right up to the last minute coming back down by the Public Gardens i slammed on the internalexpanding & externalcontracting brakes Bothatonce and brought allofher tremB -ling to a:dead. stand- ;Still)
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E. E. Cummings
Robert Frost
Maya Angelo
Pablo Nerudo - If you forget me, love!!
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roccotool wrote:Pablo Neruda. Awesome, I looked him up. Pablo Neruda online.
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