Favorite Poet?

[poppy]

Found this poem today on Pinterest. It's so very moving, in fact it made me cry    

 

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

 

Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

Edited March 6, 2015 by poppy

[poppy]

This girl is an amazing spoken word artist.

 

[thatdifficultfirstnovel]

I am an English teacher, but don't really like poetry.

 

However, over time, I've found a range of different poems I enjoy teaching.

 

One would be 'Suicide in the Trenches' by Siegfried Sassoon. Another particular favourite is 'Your Dad Did What?' - the name of the poet escapes me.

[Nollaig]

I'm naturally biased but I loved Seamus Heaney

[Poet]

Hard to tell a favorite poet but i think i ll choose 

Constantine P. Cavafy

If you dont know him he is a Greek poet with his most known poem and translated in many languages : Ithaca

[Ken Atri]

I love poetry and actually am a poet.

 

Here's a sample: Do tell me what you think

 

This is entitled Gods of Stone

 

Lonely dark nights you made

Many high roads and air still

Days sunny birght, no shade

I had a need only you could fill

 

You made bodies in heaven

Made rain and storm on a whim

The calm you gave to the unkown

Does it matter if I sink or swim?

 

-If you liked it, I'll post the remaining parts

 

Thank you

[Faineant]

Favourites change a lot, but a stern contender based on its well worn pages in my library is my man Joe Bolton. 

Tremendous talent.

His collection, Days of Summer Gone, is a must have if you can find it for a reasonable price. I once dropped it behind the radiator next to my toilet and actually took the radiator out to retrieve it, it's that damned good.

Here's a good'n:
 

The Light We Dance Through

This is the afterlife. Her gin-
tinged breath came like a cool
injection in my ear.
We were dancing after midnight in this place
called 32nd Avenue, dancing
over cigarette butts & against
bodies not our own & through a light
of such blue density
it almost wasn’t light at all.
But outside, there were stars,
& though all around us the city was playing games
with its deranged souls,
we danced three times around the parking lot–
a waltz, for chrissake, a fudgeing
waltz. That
was 1981, & each year
there are fewer & fewer people I’ll admit
as my acquaintances,
& fewer still I’ll dance with,
& it’s probably the case
that, on those all-too-rare occasions,
the light we dance through is the closest
we’ll ever come to any sort of afterlife.

[Titus Groan]

My favourite poet is Emily Bronte. 

 

I believe eve that she was uniquely gifted and the fact that her life was cut short is a topic I think about a lot. Also some of the poetry by her sister Ann is very good. 

 

A powerful American poet for me is Robert Frost. His talent seems to defy classification for me. 

[kalisam]

Robert Frost and mayby J.London

[Luis]

On 2/9/2007 at 7:08 PM, Kylie said:

My favourite poem is Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven. I also love The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, whom we studied extensively in school.

 

I also like Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas and Howl by Allen Ginsberg.

 

Other than that, I'm not very well versed (pardon the pun!) in poetry, although I would like to change that. I must devote more reading time to poetry! I've downloaded plenty of poetry that is in the public domain...just got to read it!

Thank you. The poem "Do not go gentle ..." was used many times in the film 'Interstellar' and I asked myself if was published or not and by who.

[Lucyinthesky]

Emily Bronte

[Lucyinthesky]

On 7/21/2018 at 3:29 PM, Titus Groan said:

My favourite poet is Emily Bronte. 

 

I believe eve that she was uniquely gifted and the fact that her life was cut short is a topic I think about a lot. Also some of the poetry by her sister Ann is very good. 

 

A powerful American poet for me is Robert Frost. His talent seems to defy classification for me. 

 

Emily Bronte's poems are otherworldly. 

 

It says something when another poet has her No Coward Soul is Mine read out at her funeral.  

[megustaleer]

I find it impossible to pick a favourite poet.

Some un-favourite ones maybe, but most poets that I have read have produced work that I enjoy, and all that might be among my favourites have written pieces that just don't speak to me at all.