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An Ever-Expanding List of Poems I Love
Selected by ali.servis
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Favorites-- ones I have loved for years & some that I have discovered more recently. Poems that make me feel like someone shares the way I see and experience life-- and expresses those experiences much more succintly & eloquently. Poems that make me feel connected to the world, people, life.
 
Poetry
• "What Do Women Want?" by Kim Addonizio
• "Now, I know you remember so and so" by Doris Davenport
• The Book of Questions, III by Pablo Neruda
• A Crosstown Breeze by Henry Taylor
• A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Hand by Jane Hirshfield
• A Love Song by William Carlos Williams
• Alone by Maya Angelou
• Ballad by Sonia Sanchez
• Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
• Dangerous for Girls by Connie Voisine
• Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
• Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
• God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
• Hades' Pitch by Rita Dove
• Heat by H. D.
• homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton
• I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
• I measure every Grief I meet (561) by Emily Dickinson
• Identity Crisis by F. D. Reeve
• If There Is Something to Desire, 9, 17, 18 by Vera Pavlova
• it was a dream by Lucille Clifton
• Me in Paradise by Brenda Shaughnessy
• Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats
• O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
• Passage I by Maureen N. McLane
• Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
• Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernαndez Cruz
• Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
• Reading Biographies by Gary Soto
• Remember, Body ... by C. P. Cavafy
• Scumble by Rae Armantrout
• The Edge of the World [excerpt] by Adonis
• The Hug by Thom Gunn
• The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
• The Myth of Innocence by Louise Glόck
• The Primer by Christina Davis
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
• This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
• To Earthward by Robert Frost
• Two, Three by Rae Armantrout
• Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• Unbidden by Rae Armantrout
• Weary Rings by Cιsar Vallejo
• When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman
• Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman
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