I must admit that I have neglected this love most of all. I have been known to write some, some badly, some not so bad. I love the sound of the words, the power of the sound, poetry must be read aloud. Okay, maybe that is just my definition, but I believe it.
So, who, and what are my favorites? Again I will just free associate and see how the list forms.
1. Richard Brautigan, 1935-1984
June 30th, June 30th (1978)
Loading Mercy with a Pitchfork(1975)
Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt (1970)
The San Francisco Weather Report(1969)
Please Plant This Book (eight poems printed on separate seed packet envelopes, 1968)
2. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
Leaves of Grass (1855)
O Captain! My Captain! (1865)
3. Homer, 750 B.C.
The Iliad (700 B.C.)
The Odyssey (700 B.C.
4. William Blake, 1757-1827
The Tiger (1784)
The Angel (1784)
5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919- ,
Pictures of the Gone World (1955)
A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
Come Lie with Me and Be My Love (1967)
6. Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (1951)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion (1933)
7. e.e. cummings, 1894-1862
!blac (1958)
I Have Found What You Are Like (1955)
8. Annie Dillard, 1945-
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974)
Teaching A Stone To Talk (1984) not a poem, but I love it
Mornings Like This (1995)
9. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
All The Worlds a Stage
Shall I Compare Thee (Sonnet 18)
10. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
The Divine Comedy (1300)
11. Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849
The Raven (1845)
Annabel Lee (1849)
Lenore (1843)
12. Emily Dickinson, 1839-1886
I Felt A Funeral in My Brain (1862)
I’m Nobody! Who are You? (1891)
13. Maya Angelou, 1928-2014
And Still I Rise (1978)
On Aging (2015)
Alone (1975)
14. Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
Twenty Love Poems (1924)
100 Love Sonnets (1986)
15. Samuel Coleridge, 1772-1834
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
Kubla Khan (1816)
17. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Brahma (1856)
Uriel (1847)
18. Robert Frost, 1874-1963
The Road Not Taken (1916)
Birches (1816)
Stopping By the Woods (1924)
19. Gary Snyder, 1930-
The Back Country (1967)
Axe Handles (1983)
20. Hugo Ball. 1886-1927
Karawane (1916)
And I say, “Bosso Fataka!”
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:31 PM, A Work Progressing wrote:
> johndiestler posted: “I must admit that I have neglected this love most of > all. I have been known to write some, some badly, some not so bad. I love > the sound of the words, the power of the sound, poetry must be read aloud. > Okay, maybe that is just my definition, but I believ” >