good poems? funny, serious, or just makes you think...?

Question

i love the poem "our deepest fear", dont know the authour though. any good poems ?

Answer 1

This is a poem by Charles Bukowski -- if you think it is the best of all the ones that people post in this answer, I hope you will best answer it:

the mockingbird

the mockingbird had been following the cat
all summer
mocking mocking mocking
teasing and cocksure;
the cat crawled under rockers on porches
tail flashing
and said something angry to the mockingbird
which I didn't understand.

yesterday the cat walked calmly up the driveway
with the mockingbird alive in its mouth,
wings fanned, beautiful wings fanned and flopping,
feathers parted like a woman's legs,
and the bird was no longer mocking,
it was asking, it was praying
but the cat
striding down through centuries
would not listen.

I saw it crawl under a yellow car
with the bird
to bargain it to another place.

summer was over.

Answer 2

A poem is for you, a poem is for me.
A poem can make you happy, or sad you see.
It speaks lots of words, between the lines.
Read it very closely, and sort out the signs.
Something’s being said, even more than you read.
If you like it look deeper, understanding it’s plead.
Good bad or evil, there’s a message for you.
If it touches your heart, a love could renew.

Answer 3

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Alma Mater" is a very interesting sonnet. It involves the narrator answering a knock at the door and finding a hobo who, before he says anything, dies on the front stoop. Just one of those poems that makes you go "Hmmm..."

Answer 4

"If only, if only,"
The woodpecker sighs,
The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.
While the wolf waits below,
Hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moon, "If only, if only."
"Tomorrow, tomorrow,"
The darkness does sigh,
"I hope I’ll get brighter as the day passes by."
As the moon looks out to the stars,
Eyes full of sorrow,
He cries to the wind,
"Tomorrow, tomorrow,"
Oh one day, oh one day,
The wind does sing out,
"You’ll know that I’m watching you’ll fear me no doubt."
As the woodpecker listens,
The sun starts to rise.
"If only, if only,"
The woodpecker cries.


It's so beautiful.. I wish I could write like that.

Answer 5

I love anyhting written by Emily Dickinson! She is so insperational!

Answer 6

Marianne Williamson is the author of that one.