What is your favorite poem and who wrote it?
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LADYBUG22@aol.com
My favorite poem is The Road Less Travelled by Robert Frost.
Booksagain@aol.com
Sea Feaver by John Masefield.
Gotham5000@aol.com
My Favorite poem is A Boat in the Forest by Thomas Lux. It is a short wonderful poem. He is also one of my favorite poets along with Billy Collins and his poem Marginalia.
GTwit4375@aol.com
A thousand choices --- and more. But I treasure the OLD poets, long gone from this earth, but ever present really. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is as good a choice as any, for his "A Psalm of Life." Contemporary philosophy couched in an
earlier tongue.
BerrieSES@aol.com
"America" by Allen Ginsberg.
CShank1246@aol.com
My favorite poem of all time is a work by T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets. It is the most moving and meaningful piece of literature of any genre I have become acquainted.
Tess1RN@aol.com
"She Walks in Beauty like the Night" by Lord Byron is my favorite. Such lovely imagery.
Jeaneebnee@aol.com
My favorite poems are now the ones by Matty Stepanek. This young boy is truly gifted with an insight into life that few adults have!
MamanMia@aol.com
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman.
Caliauds@aol.com
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost has been my favorite for a very long time. It's so wonderfully written and so true. I always think about what if I took a different path in life and it's always but then I wouldn't have met so and so, I wouldn't have lived in California, etc...It makes us think about our choices no matter how small they are they do affect our lives somewhere down the road.
Jfsrkb@aol.com
Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.
Avery85282@aol.com
Probably "Song of Solomon," written, it is said, by Solomon. I have my doubts.
Buttercupmlm@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath.
Lankford0714@aol.com
Evangeline by Longfellow.
Ymuso@aol.com
The Peace of Wild Things written by Wendell Berry. Berry, like Frost has captured the human spirit with simplicity and joy. His poems are simply wonderful.
Wolfcrow@aol.com
The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens is and has been for 40 years my favorite poem.
fabulousm@aol.com
The Well of Grief by David Whyte.
KELLYTA@aol.com
"Quantum" by Emily Dickinson.
FletcherRabb@aol.com
The Raven by Egar Allen Poe.
Liddypool2@aol.com
My favorite poem is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. Although it was a difficult decision to choose just one poem, this has been a favorite of mine since I first read it in middle school 8 years ago. I think everyone can relate to the message of the poem, and I always feel inspired when I read it.
FSturkey@aol.com
"The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost.
Brunomag@aol.com
Right now my favorite poem is, of all things, BEOWULF in the Heaney translation. This gifted poet brings to life that ancient world that haunts the Anglo-Saxon mind. I find myself going back to it over and over again.
AWElmore@aol.com
My favorite poem would have to be Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay. It talks to my soul.
SZ0835@aol.com
Favorite Poem: The Road Not Taken. Poet: Robert Frost.
Mariejg9@aol.com
Favorite poem: As Much as You Can by C. P. Cavafy.
Sorey@aol.com
The all time most amazing poem ever written --- one could never find and understand everything in it: "The Wasteland" by T. S. Eliot.
Julsmeemee@aol.com
My favorite poems have always been Sonnets from the Portuguese by E. B. Browning. I guess because I first read them as a romantic teenager and reading them always brings back that simple time in my life.
Lexy1972@aol.com
My favorite poem (honestly, one of my favorite poems) is "The Sick Rose" --- William Blake.
TopShot@aol.com
Howdy, Howdy. My favorite poem and a sort of theme for my life is "Two tramps in mud time" by Robert Frost. The lines that I love the most are:
"Only where love and need are one
And the work is play for mortal stakes
is the job ever really done
for heaven and the future's sake."
The poem is about the authors ambition to "united his vocation with my avocation." Seems like something we all would like. I have accomplished this in my work. Maybe you have to. I think more people would be happier if they could as well.
VEELEE8@aol.com
Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Tfrench57@aol.com
MY FAVORITE POEM IS "IN MEMORIAM" BY MARIETTA STANLEY CASE. THIS POEM BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF LOVED ONES PASSED.
Renger@aol.com
Favorite Poem: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Thomas Gray.
Fearof50@aol.com
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning. I heard bits and pieces of it past 35 years, and my favorite line is the first two: "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be..." Found it online and saved it in my library.
Pizza365@aol.com
Alan Ginsburg: Howl.
BenCanada@aol.com
Walt Whitman --- I sit and look out.
Bungalowmom@aol.com
"To laugh often and much" --- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
BobbyP7714@aol.com
I actually have two favorites, both by Robert Frost. They are: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken. Another personal favorite is one I wrote myself in memory of my son, it is called The Breeze.
Annabelle973@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Disabled" by Wilfred Owen, one of the "Lost Poets of World War 1." He was an Englishman who was killed in the war just four days before the Armistice was signed. Sadly, he was killed at the age of 25, but the poetry he wrote in his short life is remarkable.
janiah333@yahoo.com
My choice of the best poet is: Regina M. Bowen. Poem title: Here Lies Woman. Excellent prose regarding the plight of women in America.
mdb123@earthlink.net
I couldn't believe it when I saw your contest and the prize to go with it. My favorite poem of all time is "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.
I first read it when I was a junior in high school and even now at age 53, I have never found a poem that I love more. Thank you for offering this prize. I am keeping my fingers crossed that my entry is drawn.
Mystrytx@aol.com
"Soldier of Fortune" by Robert Service.
omega3141@yahoo.com
The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser.
robmedcalfjr@earthlink.net
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.
marysarko@yahoo.com
My favorite poem is the"Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejías" by Federico García Lorca.
archrev@gwi.net
There are so many wonderful poems! I can always find one to speak to the core of my being no matter the mood. However, if I have to choose one...In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver.
dmacdowe@jcpenney.com
Frost's "The Road Not Taken." It has made all the difference! It's reading can be relevant throughout today's academia, with compelling thought of ethics and the pursuit of knowledge while keeping at bay the allure of economic security.
rtaddeo@rochester.rr.com
It's impossible to choose one favorite poem, but among those favorites is Shakespeare's sonnet # 29, beginning with, "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes," and ending with the couplet, "For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings/That then I scorn to change my state with kings."
June528@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Richard Cory" by Edward Arlington Robinson.
Bookwo7875@aol.com
Laughing Down Lonely Canyons by James Cavanaugh.
BettyB6768@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden.
WordsandGraphics.Ink@worldnet.att.net
My favorite poem is Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Love is Not All It is Not Meat Nor Drink."
afalbo49@yahoo.com
"Four Quartets" by T. S. Eliot.
flyinggoat@sprintmail.com
Hi, I suppose, without equivocation, it would have to be "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. How difficult it is to pick a favorite, given all of the classic poets and the new modern masters. Whenever I am asked the question, I always drift back to Frost, and then further to Snowy Woods. As far as readings by a poet, by far the greatest has got to be Dylan Thomas with his recital of "A Child's Christmas in Wales." Pure joy.
mmelmonroe@mail.arczip.com
My all time favorite poem is Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stephens. Verse XIII is of course my favorite. To me it embodies our lives, the inevitable beautiful wait for death, suggested in the first line. It captures our need for security and love in the cedar-limbs. And it captures the continuum of life in the continuing snow.
wales34@hotmail.com
Hi, my favorite poem is Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon. Thanks.
peterg43@optonline.net
My favorite poem is "The Rape of The Lock" by Alexander Pope.
stebie2003@aol.com
I was watching the funeral of the Queen Mother of England when her daughter, Queen Elizabeth read the following poem: She Is Gone (by Anonymous). I thought the poem was very beautiful and I would like to submit it into your contest. Thank you for your attention.
PRPflaumer@aol.com
This is a difficult question to answer, because at different times in my life I have had different favorites. However, Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is the only one that literally jumps into my head at a particular time (spring) each year, and for that reason, I guess it would qualify as my favorite. I can't shake the need to recite it annually.
seagoat1@earthlink.net
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
songoden@earthlink.net
My favorite poem is the book-length Hard Country by Sharon Doubiago.
Dccj2@aol.com
My favorite poem is "The Spirit of St. Nicholas" by Clarke Clement Moore. It is a staple in almost everyone's childhood and never fails to evoke wonderful memories. The poem that means the most to me, however, is "If."
tori_druid@yahoo.com
Funeral Song, by W. H. Auden. Auden's poem "Funeral Song" is the epitome of a true love story. He makes it explicitly clear how much the subject of the poem means to him. Hearing John Hannah recite the poem in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" only proved to me once more how much this is my favorite poem.
Mocky1@aol.com
My favorite poem in the world is The Zero Circle by Rumi. I'm fascinated with his poetry, and the fact that he lived in the thirteenth century and his writings still apply to life today is incredible. I visited New York a month after the terrorist attacks, and someone had actually left a copy of The Zero Circle at the Union Square memorial to the victims. I was thrilled to see it; it's a very comforting poem.
terriblet@directvinternet.com
Favorite poem: Live and Die by Anne Sexton.
mliptack@swboces.org
My favorite is "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Nobbia@aol.com
"The Double Image" by Anne Sexton Poem as a letter written to a daughter of why she had to go away and her return back to rebuild a relationship with a daughter who doesn't know her. Beautifully written and heartbreakingly real emotions of being a mother and finding one's way back to the world.
Mlmlrm@aol.com
My favorite poem is Shakespeare's sonnet that begins: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."
ROJOSHO@aol.com
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
MargotTC@aol.com
My favorite poem is The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost. He seemed to capture the essence of things in such a few spare phrases. Think of Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening or Mending Wall. Accessible, yet not trite or obvious. Thank you for making me think of him again!
mnboylan@yahoo.com
One of my favorite poets is Charles Bukowski and my favorite is his whole collection from "Love is a dog from hell."
Bitteroot@aol.com
My favorite poem is "I'm somebody who are you?" by Emily Dickinson.
sonia.chopra@worldnet.att.net
My favorite poem is Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
KerriJNelson@aol.com
My favorite poem is People Like Us by Robert Bly. It just makes sense.
safynegaia@aol.com
Annabelle Lee by Edgar Alan Poe.
tvhsbmiller@MDECA.ORG
"How to Eat a Poem" by Eve Merriam.
Linpeace1@aol.com
Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.
InaSingleBreath@aol.com
Wow, just one? Well, besides the underground writers that I adore...published I would have to say...Pable Neruda for Here I love you, and Kahlil Gibran in a close close second.
srodrigue@fibertel.com.ar
Sylvia Plath, "Daddy."
SBoyle6827@aol.com
I have two, The Childrens Hour by Longfellow and The White Cliffs of Dover by Alice D. Miller.
BSimon2748@aol.com
Song of the Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats.
BookPotato@aol.com
My favorite poem was written by my friend Tony Kirven, who died last year from pancreatic cancer. He wrote this in high school, in 1970. I have never forgotten it.
When love's like a turtle,
Hard-shelled and slow,
Stand on a corner
And shout what you know.
If you're corrected,
You'll know even more.
Cmlsonweels@aol.com
My favorite poem of all times is "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson. I learned it as a child, and have shared it with many elementary classrooms over the years. Don't we all love the thrill of going through the air on a swing? Close your eyes and remember!
Nannykaul51@aol.com
"Little Boy Blue" Eugene Fields. Yes, it is bad poetry but will definitely tug your heart strings.
Carosp@aol.com
Childe Harold by Lord Byron.
SStark7060@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. (I have liked this poem, since grade school days at Hunt School in Sioux City, Iowa....where we owned three horses.)
priscillaporter@xtra.co.nz
My favorite poem remains "The conduct of life" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Just simply beautiful.
KBad6677@aol.com
My favorite poem is Patterns by Amy Lowell.
Kellmor2@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. I think it's beautiful!
PONYTONIE@aol.com
Trees by Joyce Kilmer.
JCribb@aol.com
"Swallows Travel To and Fro" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Sheila5199@aol.com
Although I love many of his poems, as a cat lover my favorite is The Naming of Cats by T. S. Eliot.
Amicusmagnus@aol.com
I love poetry and it is very difficult to narrow it down to one. My favorite poet is hands down, Emily Dickinson. Her poetry is so difficult at times, but the more I stuck with it and understood her mind and how she perceived life, the more immense and beautiful her poetry became. I read several books about her life to help me understand some of the poems, But for the most part, her themes are universal. To me, her poetry is like diamonds, compressed elements, complicated with many facets yet clear and brilliant! Poem 1099.
jpaxman@tcsn.net
My favorite poem is Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas.
noreenayres@att.net
What I Expected" by Stephen Spender.
pm3@gci.net
I am not usually a great fan of poetry however in a recent college writing class I had to find a poem that had to do with communication and things that affect it. I found the poem "We and They" by Rudyard Kipling and found a voice for my outlook of life.
tjbyrne@xtra.xtra.co.nz
My favorite poem is "Sea Fever" by John Masefield. Thanks.
IslaAngel@aol.com
"Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It begins by saying "How do I love thee? let me count the ways." To me that poem describes true love in its deepest and purest form. It's the kind of love that everyone yearns for but few truly encounter.
K9CB@aol.com
The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe.
SASadler@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
pegeth@aol.com
My favorite poem is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. This has had great meaning throughout my life.
KLeonowicz@aol.com
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
PArtist@aol.com
"Maple" by Robert Frost.
GeriDos@aol.com
My favorite poem is "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
jklbradshaw@lycos.com
Much Madness by Emily Dickinson.
Kozinlaf@aol.com
My favorite poem is "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps," by Galway Kinnell. When I first read it my freshman year at college, it created an image for me of what it meant to be married. I empathize with it deeply, and after 9-11, it remains a great source of comfort.
Crumynam@aol.com
My favorite poem at the moment (it changes ever so often) is "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe.
bj_brumfield@hotmail.com
My favorite poem is "Dreams" by Langston Hughes.
KAT8286@aol.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne.
RJSconsult@aol.com
The Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a great American poet. It was my grandfather's favorite poem and one that I memorized and recited in fourth grade. I am proud to be the custodian of my grandfather's first edition Longfellow containing this and many of his inspirational works.
taylorb@uwec.edu
"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman.
Etim1214@aol.com
My favorite poem of all time is William Blake: "Tiger,Tiger burning bright."
dhelmen@earthlink.net
My favorite poem is Recuedo by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Thank you.
kristeng@tulsaconnect.com
Dorothy Parker --- “Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom.”
RDANKILGO@aol.com
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats.
DreamsOfBeyond@aol.com
One of my favorite poems is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. It tells of the reality of life, that nothing lasts forever, and life is always changing.
