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3) Edgar Allen Poe: Morbid & creepifying! Good stuff.

2) William Shakespeare: The grand master. No one has coined more phrases in the English language than Big Bill the Bard.

1) Rudyard Kipling: The most clear eyed and accurate observer of the human condition ever to set pen to paper.

1) Werbert a great poet that understand that a poem that does not stimulant a funny
bone is a waste of time.

2) TheMachine1 aka me sample of my poems:

I got poop on my shooooooooooooooooe! .......and I love youuuuuuuuuuuuu!

1. Walt Whitman because of this (from Song of the Rolling Earth):

Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
For none more than you are the present and the past,
For none more than you is immortality.

Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the
past and present, and the true word of immortality;
No one can acquire for another--not one,
Not one can grow for another--not one.


2. Shakespeare, especially Sonnet XXIX (he envied somebody else's writing??? "this man's art and that man's scope")

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.


3. Ogden Nash, for example, "More About People" -

When people aren't asking question
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that weren't enough to annoy you
They employ you.
Anybody at leisure
Incurs everybody's displeasure.
It seems to be very irking
To people at work to see other people not working,
So they tell you that work is wonderful medicine,
Just look at Firestone and Ford and Edison,
And they lecture you till they're out of breath or something
And then if you don't succumb they starve you to death or something.
All of which results in a nasty quirk:
That if you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Kipling. Before I even saw your post.

Flashes of imagery, illustrating observed truth of real people.

"When you're lying half dead on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains..."

After Kipling, yes, Shakespeare, despite some difficulties that distance in time now imposes.
Macbeth contemplating his doom, Henry V before Agincourt, the confection of A Midsummer Night's dream.

At three? Milton for Paradise Lost? T S Eliot for The Wasteland? Ogden Nash for the incredible poem "Listen"? Dylan Thomas for "Under Milk Wood" (read by Richard Burton)?

Should I let my taste for trains decide, but still leave me split between John
Betjeman's "Metroland" and W H Auden's "Night Mail"? (and a scattering of others)

Or ruin the list by mentioning the unsurpassed William McGonagall, and his "Bridge o'er the silvery Tay"?

hay man that rhymes.........yeah you mak my heart melt...aspie poet

awwwwwwwwww

Emily Dickenson. She was a loner and found it hard to express her feelings, so she wrote everything down.

Was Martin Luther King a poet, as well as a politician? I think that I've spelt the last word wrong...too much Kinks music.

Don't know about poetry, but he was one hell of an orator, as well as being a great man.

I many times have asked myself if she wasn't an aspie woman. The traits are there...

William Butler Yeats. I heard one of his poems in a movie entitled "Equilibrium". After researching him I discovered that we shared some interests.

Aedh wishes for the clothes of heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

T.S Eliot- 'cause his The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is my all-time favorite poem. I'm not so fond of The Wasteland, but he's got others I really love. I just love the music of his words.

William Butler Yeats- (WB was an HFAer fyi) I love his earlier poetry. Awesome rhythm, rhyme, and romantic subject matter.

Bertolt Brecht- His work was always poignant and the subject matter so metaphoric, even at its most concrete. He could make even the most grotesque of images seem beautiful.

I'm also very fond of Rilke and love translating his work. And as for Poe, he's not my favorite poet (though The Raven is definitely one of my favorites), but certainly #1 on my list for short stories. His short stories are AWESOME.

Yeah not sure why these other people are worshipping NT poets. I here by grant you
membership in the Aspie Poet's Club Donkey. Sorry guys we need members who can see
new and modern Poets. Donkey and Me could train a bird to list a dozen well known
dead poets.

You could also train it to list a dozen of well known new poets. Though I should listen to your infinite wisdom since evidently you built a time machine, earned a PHd, and gave all the listed poets a psychological exam. You are most talented.

Love him too! I think his is the only poetry I like, because of

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes).

From Song of Myself.

My 3 choices are...

- Edgar Allan Poe
- Bob Dylan
- Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Doctor Seuss

...simply because I find their works entertaining in different ways.

Everyone listed a lot of my favorites, especially Poe.
I would like to add Pablo Neruda, because he did some interesting poetry.