Do you have a favourite?

Question

Poet or songwriter.
These are the people that paint our world with words.

I'll be researching the ones I've not heard of...so the points will be well earned.

For the Record my fav poet is Edward Lear....and songwriter it has to be Paul Simon, c'mon guys.......

Answer 1

stevie wonder for his dedication and courage to music as a blind man.

Answer 2

black eyed peas with
Where Is The Love? lyrics

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Badness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
N**, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin' people dyin'
Children hurtin you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'
in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't really know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't really know)
Where's the love, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' IN THE WRONG direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanting to act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive to lovers bound

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)

Answer 3

Songwriter: Young Neil

Answer 4

Pablo Neruda, Shakespeare, Ramses Shaffy
Maynard James Keenan.

Answer 5

Poet: either Christina Rossetti or WH Auden (really cheerful!)

Songwriter: Paul Weller

Answer 6

E.A. Poe

he is the best

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone —
Then — in my childhood — in the dawn
Of a most stormy life — was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still —
From the torrent, or the fountain —
From the red cliff of the mountain —
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold —
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by —
From the thunder, and the storm —
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view —

Answer 7

Edward Lear-he was a family friend and his poems are just hilarious
Metallic Soap OR Simon Brading, I'm not sure which. MEtallic Soap, because they are 16,17 and 18...
Simon Brading because, well, who can fail to love 'I'm Alive'?

www.myspace.com/metallicsoap
and you'll have to buy Newday Live You Reign to get the best recording of Simon Brading's song.

Answer 8

These are a few of my favorite poets: Charles Baudelaire and Elizabeth Barrett Browning...Christina Rossetti and Edgar Allan Poe.
Favorite songwriters: Elliott Smith and Sting.
{It's hard to pick just one.}

Answer 9

John Lennon/Elvis Costello/Eddie Vedder.

Answer 10

my personal favourite poet/songwriter is Richey Edwards, the Holy Bible album is a masterpiece

Answer 11

Yeats. Frost. Nora Jones.