anyone know any good poems?

Question

what is the best poem you heard or read?

Answer 1

Kipling's "If"...

Also, a not so well known poem by Octavio Paz:

The Street

A long silent street.
I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall
and rise, and I walk blind, my feet
stepping on silent stones and dry leaves.
Someone behind me also stepping on stones, leaves:
if I slow down, he slows;
if I run, he runs. I turn: nobody.
Everything dark and doorless.
Turning and turning these corners
which lead forever to the street
where nobody waits for, nobody follows me,
where I pursue a man who stumbles
and rises and says when he sees me: nobody.


And "Poetry", by Ismail Kadare:

Poetry,
How did you find your way to me?
My mother does not know Albanian well,
She writes letters like Aragon, without commas and periods,
My father roamed the seas in his youth,
But you have come,
Walking down the pavement of my quiet city of stone,
And knocked timidly at the door of my three-storey house,
At Number 16.

There are many things I have loved and hated in life,
For many a problem I have been an 'open city',
But anyway...
Like a young man returning home late at night,
Exhausted and broken by his nocturnal wanderings,
Here too am I, returning to you,
Worn out after another escapade.

And you,
Not holding my infidelity against me,
Stroke my hair tenderly,
My last stop,
Poetry.

Answer 2

"The Lice Hunters" (a.k.a "The Seekers of Lice")by Arthur Rimbaud. His work is crazy! He was a french poet who loved to drink and party. At one point in his life, he got shot in the hand by his best friend (Paul Verlaine), sent Verlaine to jail, and then tried to remain friends with him afterward. There's some indication that the two had some sort of love relationship, but this is not proven. Anyway, Rimbaud's life and poetry are crazy, extremely intriguing, and much debated. Another good poem of his is "Romance" (a.k.a "Novelty"). Look him up and enjoy!

Answer 3

'Stopping BY The Woods On A Snowy Evening' - Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Answer 4

2pac read a lot of Macchia Veli poems while he was in jail and he made great poems too. The best one though was the rose that grew from the concrete

Answer 5

Langston Hughes will always be my favorite poet. And "Dreams" is my favorite poem of his. It's very short but I love it.

I also really like the poem "Each and All" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Answer 6

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow---

Ride of Paul Revere
Song of Hiawatha

Answer 7

The Market Bee
Tae Wee Farooqui.

Ye'll ken there's bees, baith great and small,
(Includin' yin wi' a market stall!)
The golden bee produces honey,
The Market Bee jist maks mair money!
The honey bee has a gentle buzz,
An' the Market bee, a beard like fuzz!
Noo I've been stung by a honey bee,
But the ither's sting's far wurse ye'll see,
Fur when HE stings, 'twill be your fate,
Tae lose near a' your wallet's weight,
Believe me frien' it's nae sae funny.
Tae be deprived o' a' your money,
Ye sit at hame fur weeks, an' grie,
When you've been stung by the Bearded Bee!

Answer 8

Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, nobody`s better than him.

Answer 9

Try William Blake. Cant go wrong with Blake. Esp. "The Tyger"
wonderful imagery

Answer 10

hummm.... well i LOVE Billy Collins and James Tate. their stuff is really deep, like Collins's poem Books, wow!! really think about that one.
God Bless!!!!