5 Favorite Poets

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  • 1.Walt Whitman
  • 2.Nikki Giovanni
  • 3.William Carlos Williams
  • 4.Charles Bukowski
  • 5.Sylvia Plath

All "american" poets? Do you have a poem that touches you most?

My "favorite" poets are: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Arthur Rimbaud and Valery Larbaud.

Last year I begin to read more poetry, This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin surprises me:

They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.