By Terry Orr
So who is your favorite Poet or Poets?
Follow this link to a good list of top poets http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/famous-poet-pictures.htm
with a brief bio of each.
Langston Hughes
I, Too, Sing America
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then. Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
How
Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
How do I love thee? Let me
count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling
out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal
grace.
I love thee to the level of
every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and
candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men
strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they
turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion
put to use
In my old griefs, and with my
childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I
seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love
thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life;
and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better
after death.
I believe each of us have our favorite
poems and poets – and have probably written a few along the way – perhaps you
will share some of them with us? We would truly enjoy reading your comments,
list of poets and poems. Thank you.
