Who is your favourite poet and why?

Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Frost and DH Lawrence mostly. But the list is endless (I 'like' the poet if even one or two poems of him/her feel phenomenal to me).

Here's one by Wordsworth:

Glad sight wherever new with old

Is joined through some dear homeborn tie;

The life of all that we behold

Depends upon that mystery.

Vain is the glory of the sky,

The beauty vain of field and grove,

Unless, while with admiring eye

We gaze, we also learn to love.

My well known poet might the two be, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac or in step with threat Allen Ginsburg. My well known lyricist could probably be Jeff Mangum (of independent Milk lodge), Woody Guthrie or Ian Curtis (of excitement branch) Poets: Bukowski- My Father Kerouac - Ode to a Tijuana rest room (and on the line no longer a poem yet a typical of mine Allen Ginsburg - Howl Lyricists: Magnum - Holland , 1945 Guthrie - Linbergh or annoying Travelin' or shop My Skillet good and Greasy Curtis: Isolation or She's lost administration

Every so often I rediscover Philip Larkin. He seems able to find the greatest poetry in the simplest things.

Like this poem about gardening:

The Mower

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found

A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,

Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.

Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world

Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.

The first day after a death, the new absence

Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind

While there is still time.

One of my favorites is "The Purist" by Ogden Nash

I give you now Professor Twist,

A conscientious scientist,

Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!"

And sent him off to distant jungles.

Camped on a tropic riverside,

One day he missed his loving bride.

She had, the guide informed him later,

Been eaten by an alligator.

Professor Twist could not but smile.

"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."

For a brilliant poet, still more or less alive, check out the Codgers' Poet's website on www.thecodgerspoet.co.uk.

So, so many.

But right now I like Edgar Allen Poe, I'm reading his whole collection right now.

Rabindranath Tagore.

He is a God I worship.

Read him online.

You'll know what I mean.

blake, wordworth, keats, yeats, shelly, jhon donne

Tupac.. Cuz he was that good. Haha