On Poets and Poetry...

I don't read that much poetry (er.. except around here. does that count?)

but what I've read of Poe ranges from great to.. eh.. pretentious, I think. Frost is alright.. who was is that wrote the one about "the road less traveled"? it alludes me compeletely right now (was is frost?). whitman.. haven't read much, but it's alright. Longfellow. good grief. shakespeare. espeically if his plays can count (or at least parts.. honestly. some was uttey genius).

I (shame) haven't read dickenson..

and Jack, you don't give yourself enough credit. jeesh.

and Sarah (crysi, you know her) and Resa. Both friends. Sarah's amazing (maybe I'll see if she's interested in this place..).

Silverstein got me reading, Dickinson got me writing. Billy Collins and Mary Oliver are big for me right now. "Said the Rose" is my favorite poem, but I've never seen another by the same author. I hate Frost and love Poe.

'Bout time someone started this thread. I wish we had a section where we could post about individual poets and poems. I miss critiquing published works like I did in high school.

Burns is pretty cool.

Poetry ROCKS!!!!!!!!

That's all I can say

I love...On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. Its ace.

Robert Burns.
Totally great stuff....

Shel Silverstein was a great one too. To bad he's dead... I got his latest work though, Runny Babbit. Hilarious. Children oriented, but hilarious.

The road less traveled by was a great poem. I ahve it in my self help book

I only read poems by Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Elizabeth Browning and Rabindranath.