Who is your Favorite Poets??

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I'm John E. WordSlinger
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My favorites are;

God & Jesus, King David, King Solomon,
Dr. Who(The 5th) writers, Robert Anton Wilson, Kahil Gibran
Gene Rodenberry, J.R.R. Tolkien, Rudyard Kipling, Nikki Sixx
Edgar Allan Poe, Clive Barker, Tim Burton, L. Frank Baum,
Emily Dickinson, Alex F. Osborn, and John Keats.



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Re: Who is your Favorite Poets??

I also love the Bible poets! They are THE most inspirational of all!

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there are so many. my mother, some of the Bible writers such as David. Others are Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglas, Bernard Collins, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois and the list goes on.

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i love the bible poets as well. my favorite from this day in age is maya angelo. she is my inspiration

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I also love Maya Angelou and Zora Neale Hurston.

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Lord Byron, Shelley, Liz Browning, Bob Dylan, Poe, Homer just to name a few...

R. Martin

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I forgot to add: Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Heinlein does a masterpiece in "Stranger in a Strange Land" and Brabury waxes eloquent and elegant his short-story anthology, "I Sing the Body Electric." Heinlein's is one that a character in the book writes, and Badbury's is just sort of...included, I guess, sort of as one of the short stories. If ya get the chance, y'outta check out these poems -- good stuff!

Ray

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He's probably an acquired taste, but -
Shakespeare. If nothing else, please read his sonnets.
Hint: Don't rush - read them they way he wrote them.
I know that sounds like common sense, but many people
try to zip through.

Try Maria Rilke, too.

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Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso (can you tell im a beat fan? lol) Bukowski, Whitman, Plath, Jim Morrison...

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Elizabeth I - 'on monsieur's departure'

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Fernando Pessoa, R. Yee Worthy, B. Frank, Chuck Wagon, Rose Bush, C. U. Then, Mary Phoogin Christmas, Breton, Rimbaud, Whitman, So Many More…

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Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Tupac, Shakespere, John Wilmot

I haven't found any modern (or post-modern, I guess that's what it's called now) poets that I like.

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me i'n new here i love things i here write on the wall little saying in books poens from family & friends anything that just sounds good to me i'm not picky a all. I love just about evetything i hear. I have always been told that was born in the wrong time because love bob dylan and them.

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favorites hummm whitman, shakespear, dickenson, browning, poe, angelo oh my there is so many great writers o and frost

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It's nice to see who is reading and liking what.
The two that I think about a lot are Robert Bly (especially his prose poems) and Rumi.
There are a lot of others but it's a usual list of suspects (whitman, frost, Jeffers, etc.)
But after reading this post dah's got me wanting to check out a few other I wasn't aware of.

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and William Stafford.

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Pimp C, E-40, Cee-Lo for "Crazy", Ghetto Boys "I sit alone in a 4 pointed room staren at candles", Dolemite, Too $hort, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Outkast, Redman, Scarface, & a whole $h!t load of others.

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Whittman and Poe.

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My favorite poets are Robert Frost, The Bible, my little cousin, and almost anyone.
Anyone want to read my poems can go to my site which is, http//:poetrypoem.com/author1155/
Please sign my guestbook ok.

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Poe, Sheff, Keats, and Cobain.

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I have a few, but am finding many I like and have inspired me tremendously, right here.At this point I am content.

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Emily Dickinson
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I really haven't read much poetry except what i've read here. So I guess all of you are .

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What no Willy the Shake, 5 cents for the paper and a nickel's worth of ink and boom-ba-boom drama. But then there's a lot of other favorites, Wilfred Owen, Stephen Crane, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Fredrico Garcia Lorca (anyone wanting to be a poet needs to read is essay: Duende), Jorie Graham, WS Merwin, DH Lawrence, M.R. Rilke, T.S Elliot, William Cullen Bryant, Coleridge, Bret Hart, Kipling, Longfellow, Wordsworth, James Hillman, John Dryden, Milton, Shelly, Frost, Thoreau, Spenser, Dylan Thomas, Poe, Milton, Ginsberg, Jack Mitchland, Michael Meade, Bobby Kauffman, Sir Walter Scott, Alexander pope, William Carlos Williams, Mary Ann Moore, Wm Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Archibald MacLeish, Rupert Brooke, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Tennyson, Robinson Jeffers (Hurt hawk is a gotta read), Brenda Hillman, Robert Bly ('the rag & bone shop of the heart' is a must read for all poets) Emerson, Edgar Lee Masters (great anthology), Housman, Lao Tzu (the way), Lu Chi (the Wen Fu), Li Po, Rumi, Omar Khayyam, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Donne, Heck I have too many favorites to mention. And the list keeps getting longer. I'm influenced by a lot of different people past and present. Good players on both teams makes for a great ball game.

a poet artist friend
RH Peat.

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