Who is Your Favorite Poet, Poets, Poem or Poems?

LauraBreidenthal

Date: 3/14/2013 2:04:00 PM

One poet no one has really mentioned yet is..Walt Whitman - he is definately among my favorites, particullary his set of poems about the civil war. The big work Dona Nobis Pacem by Vaughan Williams features that set of poetry by Whitman. I highly reccomend you listen to the piece - poetry is something most inspiring when set to music. I like Edgar Allen Poe, a good amount of Shakepeare, Also, a lot of poetry from the psalms in the Bible is quite inspiring and beautiful. Anyway, those are some of my favorites.

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Laura Breidenthal Date: 3/14/2013 2:10:00 PM

Oh, well, someone did mention Whitman, my bad. :)

JamesFraser

Date: 3/8/2013 9:06:00 AM

My favorite poets are on the Soup, always will be. Out with the Soup, it's singers and music writers for me. Koolio blog though Tim. Have a wonderful weekend :)

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frankherrera

Date: 3/6/2013 3:08:00 PM

EUGENE FIELDS 'LITTLE BOY BLUE' SADDEST...BUT MOST BEAUTIFUL POEM I"VE EVER HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO READ

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BrianStrand

Date: 3/6/2013 1:41:00 AM

Can't say I have just one favourite Tim, quite a number have meant a lot as I've developed in our art.(Crapsey,Williams,Moore, etc ).As you know right now I'm into poetry as spoken art form.My interest is to listen to a poet reading their own work(thereby showing how it was intended to be read) hence the reason I posted ,on youtube, myself reading a recent one of mine(incidentally Carrie has done the same ,catch it if you can folks its first class) Rgds Brian

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CharmaineChircop

Date: 3/5/2013 11:21:00 PM

William Wordsworth..John keats..William Shakespeare..Robert Frost,Rumi and Pablo Neruda ..: )

Charmaine Chircop Date: 3/6/2013 10:31:00 PM

Then in that poem there was this verse which i remember 'love is so short and oblivion so long'..Pablo Neruda..yep..Grand :)

Ruben O. Date: 3/6/2013 12:48:00 AM

"I can write the saddest poem of all tonight./ To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her."

Poet DestroyerA

Date: 3/5/2013 8:28:00 PM

many many Tim, I will go with EDGAR A P., Robert Frost, then I will add my poetry soup list here... (not enough space) ~Did you ever read a book called "where the sidewalk ends" !!!!!!!! xox~PD

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Chris D.Aechtner

Date: 3/5/2013 7:37:00 PM

As with music and visual art, my taste in poetry is varied and eclectic, I go through phases when concerning favourite poets and poems, whether they be amateur or professional. Aside from the handful of amateurs who are my favourite poets, right now I am into Hafiz, a 14th century Persian Sufi poet. Of course he isn't everyone's cup of tea -- very calm, meditative, introspective, "Zen-like". From "All the Hemispheres": Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence/ lie beside an equator in your heart. Greet Yourself/ in your thousand other forms/ as you mount the hidden tide and travel back home. All the hemispheres in heaven are sitting around a fire/ chatting, while stitching themselves together into the Great Circle inside of You.

Carrie Richards Date: 3/5/2013 8:22:00 PM

Wow...... the quote from "All the Hemisphere's".....incredible poetry, Chris...thanks for sharing this ...I must go read the whole poem.

RubenO.

Date: 3/5/2013 5:52:00 PM

Borges, Neruda, Whitman, Eliot, Plath...

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kashpoet

Date: 3/5/2013 5:30:00 PM

I never read any English poem apart from my school books and apart from this site.I love R.N. Tagore's and Jibanananda das's poems (both Bengali poets)

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JamesBurdette

Date: 3/5/2013 2:41:00 PM

Can't think of one in particular because I am quite an eclectic in music and poetry but Mr. Frost is probably the one, and the only one I have personally met at his former farm in Derry NH when I was in the 6th grade. He did a reading there and we all strolled along the stone wall which was the subject of Mending Wall.

James Burdette Date: 3/6/2013 8:12:00 PM

Love ti Tim!!!!

Tim Ryerson Date: 3/5/2013 5:40:00 PM

Awesome Craig...I envy you for having the honor of meeting the man himself... Yes!... We used to swing on trees too just like you and he but they were not birch..What a blast that was!...I made a bad landing once and sprained my ankle...as soon as it healed I was back at it again...

James Burdette Date: 3/5/2013 3:41:00 PM

BTW, Did you ever swing a birch---for the young and not the faint of heart, and so true--you climb till you feel the tree ready to swing and start to sway and if you do it right it's like a bungie. Way past my birch swingin days BTW. For those of you that aren't around birches it's amazing the flexibility they have and some ice storms totally bend them to the ground yet they recover and stand tall again.

James Burdette Date: 3/5/2013 3:24:00 PM

When asked what the poem meant, he paused and said to us, "We are all a part of what happens in our lives everyday, I would often walk this wall and take a stone and place it back where it fell from, and then I thought about walls--fences--and, I had an argument with myself about that." Then he turned and tottered away.

harryhorsman

Date: 3/5/2013 10:46:00 AM

I love many poets mainly classical, also there are many here, i really like... but my fav W.H Davies,

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TimRyerson

Date: 3/5/2013 10:31:00 AM

Gotta mention one more...Edward Hirsch...Still with us! I posted 'Lay Back The Darkness' on a previous blog...about his dying father with Alzheimer's...very sad, dark and compelling poem!

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SaraKendrick

Date: 3/5/2013 10:22:00 AM

I enjoy reading so many poets and different poems..To name a few of the ones that I enjoy:Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Janet Frame, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allen Poe(just a few of his), Elizabeth Barrot Browning, Lord Byron, and Helen Steiner Rice to name a few..Sara

Tim Ryerson Date: 3/5/2013 10:40:00 AM

'Renascence' by Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of my favorites, Sarah...it was one of her earlier poems I believe, or maybe her most popular...

FrancineRoberts

Date: 3/5/2013 9:51:00 AM

this one's easy, it would be our own Elizabeth Wesley, hers is the best book of poetry I own

Ruben O. Date: 3/5/2013 9:39:00 PM

You remind me that I have to visit her poetry...Im a bad neighbor...

Tim Ryerson Date: 3/5/2013 10:09:00 AM

Can't disagree there, Francine...

CarrieRichards

Date: 3/5/2013 9:07:00 AM

Frost will always be favorite, and Adelaide Crapsey was introduced to me by a Souper (thanks Brian!)...recently my son gave me a book of poems written by W.S. Merwin Here is a favorite that speaks for many of us here who write poetry________ Who did I think was listening / when I wrote down the words / in pencil at the beginning / words for singing / to music I did not know / and people I did not know / would read them and stand to sing them / already knowing them / while they sing they have no names /

James Burdette Date: 3/5/2013 3:36:00 PM

After reading your poetry I'm not surprised you would say Frost--He wrote so much about the things around him which were then, here in New England was rural, but certainly not simple---when city boys and girls were climbing the scaffolds of new buildings they were swinging birches back here.

JoannGrisetti

Date: 3/5/2013 9:06:00 AM

Richard Wright's Haiku.

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AndreaDietrich

Date: 3/5/2013 8:04:00 AM

Dulce Et Decorum Est (something like that, a really great free verse on how awful war is). And my favorite poet is Sarah Teasdale , who was a poet of the 1900's. I may have read Robinson's works but I can't say I know him just by his name. Of course, I love Robert Frost's work! Tim did you use the other box that pops up when you copy and paste? That's how I do it. I just wish I knew how they got the pretty pictures to paste as well.

Tim Ryerson Date: 3/5/2013 10:19:00 AM

You mean the blog title box, Andrea? I clicked in the left upper corner of the subject(?) box below that and then tried to paste and it came out all jumbled up..Linda said she pastes the text in the 'post poem' section and then pastes it to her blog...gotta try that next time...afraid I'll NEVER know how to do art-work and pictures, etc

HeatherOber

Date: 3/5/2013 7:58:00 AM

Oh, I like this question! My favourite poets are John Keats, William Blake, Dylan Thomas - to name a few!

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Reason A. Poteet

Date: 3/5/2013 7:53:00 AM

A favorite quote I like is: “Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died.” Some credit it to George Cecil; others to John Dreschner. I even found one site which attributed a slight variation to Sam Ewing. My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson.

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Gail AngelDoyle

Date: 3/5/2013 7:31:00 AM

Robert Frost is by far my favorite poet. Thanks for putting up such a great blog by the way and wishing you a great day. Luv, Gail

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yasminkhan

Date: 3/5/2013 7:17:00 AM

Robert Frost, William Blake..Yeats, Keating..I like them all..now I prefer the ones on the soup..you Tim, Debbie Guzzi, Andrea Dietrich to name just two..the soup has some amazing writers.. Great blog Tim..

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Ruben O. Date: 3/6/2013 12:50:00 AM

What about Ruben? LOL!

Poem Title	Form	Categories
The Sowing	Free verse	devotion
A "Brush" with Horror	Limerick	funny
The Ice Enchantress	Blank verse	fantasy,sea,seasons
Kiss Me	Light Poetry	passion
Dearest	Rhyme	devotion,faith,mother,upl
He's Their Grandpa	Free verse	dedication,husband,
Causalities of War	Elegy	death,war
Christmas Miracle in the Ghetto (Co-written with John Moses Freeman)	Narrative	family,holiday,hope,uplif
Immortality	Free verse	dedicationheart,music,hea
A Boston Tea Party Prelude	Free verse	lost lovehusband,husband,
Alliums Cloud My Heart	Lanterne	introspection
I want your SEEDS	Free verse	adventure,funny,old,old,
Sleeves of the Soul	Free verse	depression,imagination,
ON THE ROCKS	Rhyme	humorous,

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MoonBee Canady	United States	Read
Andrea Dietrich	United States	Read
Brian Strand	United Kingdom	Read
Poet Destroyer A	United States	Read
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