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2 William Shakespeare
3 Oscar Wilde
4 Emily Dickinson
5 Rabindranath Tagore
6 Maya Angelou
7 Robert Frost
8 Langston Hughes
9 Walt Whitman
10 Shel Silverstein
11 William Blake
12 Pablo Neruda
13 Sylvia Plath
14 Rudyard Kipling
15 Alfred Lord Tennyson
16 William Butler Yeats
17 Tupac Shakur
18 Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
19 Charles Bukowski
20 Sarojini Naidu
21 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
22 Muhammad Ali
23 Christina Rossetti
24 Billy Collins
25 Alice Walker
26 Sandra Cisneros
27 Carol Ann Duffy
28 Ogden Nash
29 Edgar Allan Poe
30 John Donne
31 Ralph Waldo Emerson
32 Raymond Carver
33 Nikki Giovanni
34 John Keats
35 Lewis Carroll
36 Thomas Hardy
37 Spike Milligan
38 Mark Twain
39 Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
40 Carl Sandburg
41 Anne Sexton
42 Percy Bysshe Shelley
43 Alexander Pushkin
44 Henry David Thoreau
45 Roger McGough
46 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47 Sara Teasdale
48 Victor Hugo
49 Wendell Berry
50 George (Lord) Byron

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by Beppe Wolgers |

hhh

Hhh
by Mother Goose |

The Tarts

by Elizabeth Jennings |

Answers

 Answers
by Muhammad Ali |

Me — wheee!

Me — wheee!
by Derek Walcott |

The Sea Is History

 The Sea Is History
by A R Ammons |

Their Sex Life

 One failure on
Top of another
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |

TO THE CHOSEN ONE

 HAND in hand! and lip to lip!
by Jack Kerouac |

Haiku

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?
by Matsuo Basho |

A bee

 A bee
staggers out
 of the peony.
by Louise Bogan |

Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell

 At midnight tears
Run in your ears.
by Yosa Buson |

Old well

 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound.
by Kobayashi Issa |

Napped half the day

 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!
by Muhammad Ali |

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
by Kobayashi Issa |

In spring rain

 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning.
by Yosa Buson |

Sparrow singing

 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open.
by Jack Kerouac |

Haiku

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.
by Kobayashi Issa |

Not very anxious

 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.
by Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings |

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one
l

iness
by Barry Tebb |

UPON BEING ASKED WHY I AM NOT WRITING

 Too much gone wrong – 

No Muse, no song.
by Kobayashi Issa |

How much

 How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?
by Kobayashi Issa |

Im going out

 I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.
by Emily Dickinson |

Society for me my misery

 Society for me my misery
Since Gift of Thee --
by Richard Brautigan |

Color As Beginning

 Forget love 
I want to die 
in your yellow hair
by Yosa Buson |

Evening wind

 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs.
by Emily Dickinson |

Is Immortality a bane

 Is Immortality a bane
That men are so oppressed?