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Some of my Favorite Poetry
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props,
the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
-- William Faulkner


Links to my Favorite Poems

The Rose is Obsolete - Willam Carlos Williams

I Am Waiting - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Surrender - Molly Fisk

A Man in Maine - Phillip Booth

why must itself up every of a park - e e cummings

Love Song - William Carlos Williams

Living - Denise Levertov

A Blessing - James Wright

Emily Dickenson's Clothes - Billy Collins

Love At First Sight - Robert Graves

February: Thinking of Flowers - Jane Kenyon

Upside Down - Mairead Rose Engblade

Her First Calf - Wendell Berry

A Ritual to Read to Each Other - William Stafford

Introduction to poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want then to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with a rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins


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