Favorite Poet?

Goulet
Goulet Posts: 918
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
A.R. Ammons does it for me, among many others.
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  • lifeisworth
    lifeisworth Posts: 186
    i like tennyson, lovelace, emerson, frost...


    (:
    Nosotros nunca escuchamos la voz adentro
  • Zulfikar
    Zulfikar Posts: 1
    William Blake and Rumi...
    Nothing is real
    Everything is permitted
    - Hassan I Sabbah
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748

    Rumi,     always increases the square footage of my heart when I allow him in.


    Cradle My Heart
    Last night,
    I was lying on the rooftop,
    thinking of you.
    I saw a special Star,
    and summoned her to take you a message.
    I prostrated myself to the Star
    and asked her to take my prostration
    to that Sun of Tabriz.
    So that with his light, he can turn
    my dark stones into gold.
    I opened my chest and showed her my scars,
    I told her to bring me news
    of my bloodthirsty Lover.
    As I waited,
    I paced back and forth,
    until the child of my heart became quiet.
    The child slept, as if I were rocking his cradle.
    Oh Beloved, give milk to the infant of the heart,
    and don't hold us from our turning.
    You have cared for hundreds,
    don't let it stop with me now.
    At the end, the town of unity is the place for the heart.
    Why do you keep this bewildered heart
    in the town of dissolution?
    I have gone speechless, but to rid myself
    of this dry mood,
    oh Saaqhi, pass the narcissus of the wine.
  • the unseen
    the unseen Posts: 372
    lifeisworth
  • Sound
    Sound Posts: 579
    i don't have any

    i don't have any favorites

    it is not fare

    some get all the atention

    i wont let my laziness judge the others

    what everybody really wants is to find a choosen one

    to be the god between the others

    find in his words what we already know

    what unites the human race, what we all have in common

    unite minds from a world of distance

    telling what we want to hear




    just joking
    It was a dream, not a nightmare. A beautiful dream I could never imagined in a thousand nods. I saw this girl next to me, she wasn't beautiful until she smiled. And I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following. Soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color. And I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

    Jim Carrol
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Cronyn, Frost & Souster come to mind.

    And I like many of the folks who post here as well. :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Sampradaha
    Sampradaha Posts: 13
    Sylvia Plath, John Keats.......just to name a couple.
  • Stolen Pencil420
    Stolen Pencil420 Posts: 119
    kerouac, poe, and anyone who gave people a voice that no one was hearing before.
    "Trying to be a person you're not is a waste of the person you really are."- Kurt D. Cobain (R.I.P February 20, 1967- April 5, 1994, we love u Kurt)



  • sevensins
    sevensins Posts: 887
    Cobain, Veddar, Drake, Harrison, Macartney, Walter
    http://www.myspace.com/pleasetryagain

    http://www.myspace.com/alotalotbetweenus
  • August storm
    August storm Posts: 186
    my favorite poets are ones who turn there poetry to song so id have to say neil young, eddie vedder, and tom petty:)
    i beleive you get true emotion with rythym and vibrations to hear the voice tuned to a verse is a journey into that persons soul.......
    whats good for the goose is good for the gander
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    Originally posted by August storm
    my favorite poets are ones who turn there poetry to song so id have to say neil young, eddie vedder, and tom petty:)
    i beleive you get true emotion with rythym and vibrations to hear the voice tuned to a verse is a journey into that persons soul.......

    a poem and a song are two completely different things
    sort of like third or fourth cousins
    both good, but not really related at all
  • August storm
    August storm Posts: 186
    Originally posted by Goulet
    a poem and a song are two completely different things
    sort of like third or fourth cousins
    both good, but not really related at all
    to me this is not true to start a song you write on paper or for the most part start with with words ( i know that some start with music then add words) but to me its poetry. but each person has there own opinion so i respect yours but im sticking to my opinion that song writers are poets:)
    whats good for the goose is good for the gander
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    Originally posted by August storm
    to me this is not true to start a song you write on paper or for the most part start with with words ( i know that some start with music then add words) but to me its poetry. but each person has there own opinion so i respect yours but im sticking to my opinion that song writers are poets:)

    i never said song writers weren't poets
    Bob Dylan is a perfect (and maybe the only) example of that
    i said songs and poems are different


    and if just writing things on paper makes something a song or poem then everything is a song or poem and that is so far from teh truth too
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Definitely has to be Goulet. He keeps threatening to disappear and then comes back with an even stronger outing than before. For this.......he is one of, if not the greatest poets of all time.
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • Radar(Baba)O'Riley
    Radar(Baba)O'Riley Posts: 947
    Originally posted by even flow?
    Definitely has to be Goulet. He keeps threatening to disappear and then comes back with an even stronger outing than before.
    Goulet is the P. Hut version of KISS

    Farewell tour version 6.0

    But we'll always welcome him back with open SPANKS
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by even flow?
    Definitely has to be Goulet. He keeps threatening to disappear and then comes back with an even stronger outing than before. For this.......he is one of, if not the greatest poets of all time.

    Hey! You're stroking his already swollen ego there, ef?!

    We know he's great but we're not supposed to TELL him!

    His ego's getting so swollen in fact that when he unlaods on us, we'll be pasted to the f-ing wall! :D


    coleen, I hope you made him a super-duper-extra strength-blast proof cod piece! ;)











    Just joshing ya Goulet! I love ya! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    I am the greatest poet ever
    some say I'm bigger then Jesus
    I am the KISS of poetry
    except I wear a derby hat instead of makeup
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    I am the greatest poet ever
    some say I'm bigger then Jesus
    I am the KISS of poetry
    except I wear a derby hat instead of makeup

    Hey, could you dress up like that guy from A Clockwork Orange? That outfit just fucking kicked it! I believe he had a cod piece and a derby too.:)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    Hey, could you dress up like that guy from A Clockwork Orange? That outfit just fucking kicked it! I believe he had a cod piece and a derby too.:)

    you already know too much
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    you already know too much

    :D Ah-ha! It was you who cursed the car last night! Just because I know too much is no reason to have me killed! And the joke's on you! I'm still here, knowing too much! ;)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

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