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Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:41 pm

Caligula's Launderette says... · Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:41 pm

I'm not sure if there is a topic like this on here, so I decided to start one for my own a discussion about poets and poetry...such as who is your favorite poet, published that is or what is your favorite poem or who influences your writing most...things like that.

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For me EE Cummings influences my poetry the most. I run a lot of my words together for effect and such. My favorite poet of all time is Rudyard Kipling and my favorite poem is 'Eldorado' by Edgar Allen Poe.

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:43 pm

sabradan says... · Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:43 pm

Does Bob Dylan count?

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:18 am

Sam says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:18 am

Poet?

Geoffry Chaucer...the Canterbury Tales rocked.

Billie Joe Armstrong! Mwahaha...he counts though...

Some of Ted Kooser's stuff is really good, too. I don't normally read poetry, it's just not my thing.

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:49 am

QiGuaiGongFu says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:49 am

Except Chaucer wasn't really a poet, that was just the writing style at the time. It would have been like prose today.

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:03 am

bubblewrapped says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:03 am

I dont usually read poetry either, so I dont really have a favourite poet, but recently I've been getting into ancient Greek & Roman love poetry...does that count? :lol:

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:09 am

Crysi says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:09 am

I love ee cummings, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman.

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:08 am

Jennafina says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:08 am

I have to say, Dr. Suess will always be my favorite, not kidding.

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:24 am

sabradan says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:24 am

Walt Whitman is pretty good.

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:44 pm

marching_gurl89 says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:44 pm

My favorite poets are Emily Dickenson and Jack Kerouac. I also really love almost all of the beat poets of the 50's

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:37 pm

Snoink says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:37 pm

Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein (I'm a geek), and who was that guy... Jack Pre-something? I loved HIS poems. Oh! And Roald Dahl. Hehehe...

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:58 pm

Incandescence says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:58 pm

Les Murray.

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Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:20 pm

DarkerSarah says... · Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:20 pm

Pablo Neruda, I love "The Beggars"
Frederico Garcia Lorca, "The City that Does not Sleep"
and of course, my fave,
"The Wasteland" by TS Eliot.

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Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:56 pm

Firestarter says... · Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:56 pm

I don't read poetry because if I did, I'd refuse to call what I write poems and I'd hate myself for being so inferior. To prevent such confidence batterings, I just avoid them. I also find most poetry boring.

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