Favorite Poet/Poem?

[Nathrad Sheare]

I, too, love writing poetry. There's a poet who publishes in the Rattle poetry magazine who said in an interview that he enjoys the writing part much better than the reading or even the publishing parts. I can't write perfectly the satisfaction I feel about having to edit a poem I wrote a week, a month, a year ago, getting the sense of it all over again and getting to play around with it some more.

[Andreina M]

Your Laughter by Pablo Neruda
If you forget me by Pablo Neruda
I really love Neruda

If by Rudyard Kipling

[Dream Catcher]

My favourite poem is by the legendary 'Lord Byron' with his beautiful piece 'She walks in beauty.' I first found the poem as a song and after falling in love with that, I then fell for the poem and its creator.

[Loveabull]

Walt Whitman has so many I don't know my favorite...also Gwendolyn Brooks, lyricist Bernie Taupin published a book of poetry many years ago. I memorized so many poems from that book, one of the spookier ones was "The Rat Catcher".

[Nathrad Sheare]

Some fantastic names I've seen in the past few posts! Has anyone here read anything by Alexander Pushkin, the "Russian Shakespeare?" I loved his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, and there's this little one I liked...

A Wish



The days drag on, each moment multiplies
Within my wounded heart the pain and sadness
Of an unhappy love and, dark, gives rise.
To sleepless dreams, the haunting dreams of madness
But I do not complain - instead, I weep;
Tears bring me solace, comforted they leave me.
My spirit, captive held by grief, a deep.
And bitter rapture finds in them, believe me.
Pass, life! Come, empty phantom, onward fly.
And in the silent void of darkness vanish.
Dear it to me my love's unending anguish;
If as I die I love, pray let me die.

[dinak]

I love sonnets and I say Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.

[AmyElizabeth]

Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare & Edgar Allan Poe.

[amcdaniel_01]

My favorite poem is "As I Walked Out One Evening" by W.H. Auden. it is an incredibly beautiful and moving poem about the constant tension between love of life and the inevitability of death and decay.

[Gaveitallup]

My favorite poets are Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe. As for a favorite... I've read so many that I could never choose one!

[Nathrad Sheare]

I love Edgar Allan Poe! "Israfel," "The Raven," "Ulalume," and the "Bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells! Oh, the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

[anwaros722]

Warsan Shire! She's a more modern poet, but her words are incredible, oh my gosh.

[anicole27]

I heard my favorite poems in movies, Holes and The Notebook respectively.

in Holes I heard Patricia Arquette read Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and fell in love.

In The Notebook I heard Ryan Gosling read Spontaneous Me by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass and fell in love

[PaperCuttingLunatic]

I love Poe! I'm currently memorizing "The Raven", but my favourites are "Annabel Lee" and "Alone" (or "From Childhood's Hour", I'm never quite sure which title is the correct one).
MY favourite poems overall would be Abel Meeropol's "Strange Fruit", "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou and "Her Praise" by William B. Yeats, though.

[mariawritings]

Favorite poem would have to be The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock

[LadyErynn10]

My favorite poets are Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, and a few more I can't think of at the moment.

I have two favorite poems that come to mind, They are El Dorado by Edgar Allen Poe, and The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The Lady of Shalott my actually be my all time favorite, mainly because it's so tragic and beautiful.

"A cloudwhite crown of pearl she dight,
All raimented in snowy white
That loosely flew (her zone in sight
Clasp'd with one blinding diamond bright)
Her wide eyes fix'd on Camelot,
Though the squally east-wind keenly
Blew, with folded arms serenely
By the water stood the queenly
Lady of Shalott."