Poetry?

I know nothing about poetry, except that awful poetry is 100x worse than awful prose, and there’s so much awful poetry out there that it’s almost impossible to pick through it all to find anything I like.

But if anyone has a favorite poem… or two, or twenty, or eleventy-two, I think today would be a good time to share them.

I don’t care if it’s Ulysses or a dirty limerick or anywhere in between, it you like it, let me have it. Don’t assume I’ve already heard of it or someone else will suggest it. Chances are I don’t and no one will. Well, except that Nantucket one. I have heard that one.

I’ll share one of the only ones I know and like too.

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cleversimon answered: cleversimon.com/tagged/…
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jamiek answered: sorry, I’m spamming the poetry tag. That’s what happens when you ask this question and an English major who once aspired to be a poet sees it
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treets said: I mean, that one kind of says it all, I think.
treets answered: bartleby.com/101/27….
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sarijw said: Love is enough, by William Morris. “Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds pass’d over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter;…”
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lizzindc answered: Instructions, by Neil Gaiman. I’ve got a few, but that’s my go to when I want to start a poetry reading binge.
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digthecat said: Many E. E. Cummings. ‘somewhere i have never traveled’ in particular.
misfitwashere answered: Shakespeare - 116 Sonnett. Gibran - On Marriage (The Prophet)
effyoufyi answered: Everything Dorothy Parker! “The Second Coming” and “September 1, 1939.” DONNE. SO MUCH DONNE. “To His Coy Mistress.”
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darkuncle answered: the preface to /The Man Who Was Thursday/ - blog.darkuncle.net/post…
milkglassmao answered: I love too many poems to list, but www.poet… is a wonderful place to browse.
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