Hi Everybody!

Anyone else here poetry fans? If so who do you like to read? I'm personally a fan of Edgar Allen Poe, Jim Morrison and John Lennon's stuff (particularily his first book) is just wickedly funny and awesome. Also, does anyone write poetry? I do a bit but my poetic skills aren't nearly as good as my short story/flash fiction skills are.

Well I am a great fan of Carol Ann Duffy's works, but other than that, I know very little other poets. Will Shakespears is pretty good, but, like his plays, they can get boring. Sorry in Billy fans out there.

I like pablo neruda a lot, I also love the poetry of Txus di ********.

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!

*gnaws limbs off to get away*

I don't favor a certain poet, much less a certain poem. But some of Edgar Allen Poe's poems that DON'T relate to horror and death are enjoyable.

And when you think of it, a lot of lyrics from songs can be arranged into a poem.