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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, 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, Carl Sandburg, 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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Nostradamus, huh
Nostradamus, huh
Nostradamus, huh, lol

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many, many. but two most favs are whittier "maud muller" and gibran "the prophet"

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William Blake, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carroll

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Saul Williams
fascious
sean daley
edgar allan poe
jim morrison
w.e.b.

The first two are my favorite, their modern poets check em out.

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David from the bible
Maya Angelou

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YEATS, Poe, Carol, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Jim morrison...

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Robert Frost, T.S. Elliot, Emily Dickenson, Bob Dylan, Edgar Allan Poe, John Lennon

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"How do I love thee, let me count the ways" Elizabeth Barrett Browning-My absolute favorite of all time. I also love Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickenson and Edgar Allan Poe. Oh and my mother!

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I also get a ton of inspiration from the Biblical Psalmists (Psalters are what they are technically) Song of Songs are my favorite!! Some others are Dickenson, Poe, Rosetti, and I too love Shakespeare!!You can't beat the classics! There are quite a few on here that I have found as modern favorites!!

Good choices for everyone else as well!

Bri

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Robert Burns, Robert Frost since I was a little girl, C.S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Dickinson, Browning, Canzonetta, Rossetti, Roditi, Sun Tzu, and many others. And I quite like some of the writings of Castlemist

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Found a new favorite poet on my way into minn and wisc last week. He write always with a wry twist in his work.

Louis Jenkins


Football

I take the snap from the center, fake to the right, fade back...
I've got protection. I've got a receiver open downfield...
What the hell is this? This isn't a football, it's a shoe, a man's
brown leather oxford. A cousin to a football maybe, the same
skin, but not the same, a thing made for the earth, not the air.
I realize that this is a world where anything is possible and I
understand, also, that one often has to make do with what one
has. I have eaten pancakes, for instance, with that clear corn
syrup on them because there was no maple syrup and they
weren't very good. Well, anyway, this is different. (My man
downfield is waving his arms.) One has certain responsibilities,
one has to make choices. This isn't right and I'm not going
to throw it.

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lightcourier
if a bush had have been down field he would have thrown it. ))
Great poem.

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Well, I have many, but here in this website, I would have to say:

Wordslinger- For his aggressive style and powerful messages
Jademelissa74- For her unique and eloquent style
Dahlusion- For his unique and eloquent style
Artie- For his unique style and powerful messages
Orsonav- For his religious ways and powerful messages

I cannot seem to stop reading their poetry!

Thanks to you all for sharing!

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on here:

Wordslinger
meaganoffical
suspence
dahlusion

and many more....but ther eare so many!!!

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Lupe Fiasco.
Dare to contest me?

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I also love Kerouac and Bukowski. I don't believe anyone has mentioned Bob Dylan. T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings. Edgar Alan Poe and Robert Frost.

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ME love Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Ginsberg, Burroughs, D.A. Levy, Whitman, Blake, T.S. Eliot, Alan Kaufman, Robert Browning, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Poe, Rumi, Bukowski, Mary Oliver, Bob Kaufman, Pedro Pietri, Che Guevara, Tom Waits, Richard Pryor, James Dean, Neal Cassady, Henry Miller, Gomez, Patti Smith, Williams Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, Jack Hirschman, e.e. Cummings, Emerson and Thoreau. yep i'm glad that we are all sharing our influences.

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Mine would be Poe, Shakespeare and Bob Dylan. David Allan Coe and Ted Russell Kamp have been huge influences on me so I will have to add them if nothing more then from a song writing aspect

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I like Dr. suess and all of Jesus works!

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RE: Who are your Favorite Poets?? "I Praise Myself Loudly"!!! LOL

My favorite poet? Oh, that's easy!!! ME!!! What??? I'm not allowed to have an ego? I'm not allowed to "praise [myself] loudly"???
By the way, I have just done something that I KNOW that at least some people in this thread are too full of crap to admit-that their favorite poet is really the reflection looking back at them in the mirror! LOL Here's my small list (other than myself!):

Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Plath
CS Lewis
Rick Lupert
Mark Strand
CS Lewis
Allen Ginsburg
Willam Merwin
Ezra Pound
Luis de Camoes
Yevgeniy Yevtushenko
Alexandr Pushkin
Sappho
James Russell Lowell
Wordslinger
Dahlusion
Pape

I could go on and on! Here is a good place to upload free e-books of your favorite poets:
http://www.poemhunter.com/eBooks
Remember, don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful! LOL
I could go on and on, but I'm still my favorite poet!

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