Favorite Poet?

“Who is it and why?”

“Denis J Alcock

Because he's my former college roommate and has published 3 books. And, he's a cool dude.”

“Andrew Dice Clay”

“Dr. Seuss”

“Alcock?

I hope he uses a pen name.”

“Robert Service

Rudyard Kipling”

“Robert Frost!

8)”

“My daughter.”

“Easy one . . . e.e. cummings. 'Cause he's creative, funny, a good storyteller, and sexy. If wasn't dead, I track him down and ask him on a date.

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric furr, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh....And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new

See! Sexy.”

“If I could write like that, would you ask me for a date?”

“Probably. LOL! I had to do a huge presentation on 'ol e.e. for my college fresh writing course. I concluded by telling the class that I'd date him if he wasn't dead. I'm just impressed w/ the guy.”

“Fresh as in freshmen, not a course on "fresh" writing. LOL!”

“With all the changes in the academy in the last few years, you can never be too sure.”

“Good point, Bit.”

“Is it just me, or do you hear the sound of a thousand browsers doing searches on "e. e. cummings"?”

“and possibly not getting the sort of site they were looking for”

“so you're telling me and e.e cummings wrote sex poetry?”

“He wrote all kinds of stuff, but there was definitely some sexy stuff in there. If you guys want to read a sexy poem, combining love for cars, search for "She being brand new."”

“She being brand newgirl?”

“LOL! That is actually funny Packy-poo. No, it's about a "car." Search for it.”

“Thoreau”

“".....shocking fuzz or your electric furr......."

Hey, I'm in!



"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

Professor Irwin Corey”

“Oh, that's ".....OF your electric furr..."”

“I think e.e. cummings must have dated some weird chicks.

Or was he gay?”

“Yes, e.e. did some nifty stuff,

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)


Who else have I got in the poetry folder....

Lewis Carroll, Edmund Spenser, Robert Service, Basho, Yeats, Whitman, that Bard guy, Edward Lear, Kipling, Tolkien, Ginsberg, Mason Williams, the Underdog Theme... and this:


The Tyger

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?


William Blake (1757-1827)”

“Here lies one
Whose name was writ in water

- John Keats' epitaph”

“I like Emily Dickens and Robert Frost. My grandmother was an English teacher and used to read to us when we were kids.”

“Kahlil Gibran. He's just simply awesome.”

“Shakespeare, from Henry VI:
"love for thy love, and hand for hand I give."”

“I’m not sure what his name is, but you may be familiar with his work. I haven’t seen his work in print anywhere I’ve only seen it on public rest room walls.”

“My daughter posts to a poetry website. She doesn't know I read her rhymes. This is one of several....

One single person, a speck, I stand.
My eyes fixated on the blue masses above.
The endless expansion, I stand in awe.
How can something possibly be endless?
My mind can only ponder so far..
Perhaps my mind wasn't created
To understand information so useless

Why do people question God
But never argue with infinity?
We accept the fact that the universe forever expands
No one knows why God was not created
No one understands how the Maker does not have a maker.
Perhaps our minds weren't created
To understand information so useless.

We're only human, our brains have a limit
Yet we expect to know everything..

I don't have all of the answers
To the unending questions about God.
But His existence doesn't depend on my range of thought.
So if I can't answer your questions
Don't lose faith.
Gain it.”

“Good stuff Bacpac!!!!


Drop me a email I would like to read more of that!

8)”

“Send her to AuthorsDen.com.

Make sure she stays away from poetry.com, that site is a scam.”

“Nice poem by your daughter, bacpac.

I'm not huge into poetry, but I really like what I've read by Edgar Allen Poe.”

“I am the luckiest Dad in the world X 2.

Good luck to the rest of you suckers.”

“sylvia plath is good psycho-chick stuff”

“I don't have a favorite, but I do like Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, TS Eliot, Gary Snyder, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes........”

“LONDON, England (CNN) -- Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein spends his time in solitary confinement writing poems, tending a garden, reading the Koran and eating American muffins and cookies, a British newspaper has reported.

The Guardian quoted Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's new human rights minister, as saying Saddam "appeared demoralized and dejected" during a weekend visit to his cell. Amin said one of Saddam's poems was about George Bush.

"He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a small palm tree," Amin said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/26/iraq.saddam.report/index.html”

“li po is my favorite”