Three poems that you should all read.
If you read these three poems, please feel free (and I hope you do) to post three you would like others to read.

Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
Mein Kampf - David Lerner
Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year - Raymond Carver

I hope some folks here check them out. Anyone that reads them doesn't need to comment on how they felt about any of them. All I want is for people to read these and post three of their own, for whatever reason, and I promise to read them.

So, cheers to those who do.

The Tiger by William Blake

A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

O captain! My captain! by Walt Whitman

I Carry Your Heart With Me by ee cummings

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Romance by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Snakes of September" by Stanley Kunitz
"The Round"..Kunitz

"The Simple Dark" by Luci Shaw

if you forget me...pablo neruda

alone...edgar allen poe

the cry of the children...elizabeth barrett browning

Anne Sexton - Wanting to Die

Kenneth Koch - Sleeping With Women

Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazurus

Does it count to just say, I hate reading a book,,,so I never have.

Sometimes, its really hard to believe that I am human,lol,lol

fifty two and never read any book,,,THATS just sadly, BAD!


Little secrets just fly out around here,wink..

Sorry,,,I just wished I had, so as I could share them with all of you.

THIS was a GREAT POST, man....

Tery-

You don't have to read a book. The majority of them are only poems. I know you can do that. A pretty varied collection too. Many were new to me-thanks to all for posting.

Yes, thanks to everyone for posting.
Most of these I haven't read and I've had a lot of fun getting to read new poetry and get a small glance vicariously into the minds of poets on the site.

I was wondering who would post Alone by Poe. One of my favorites.

I hope people keep adding.

wow, and I must be "alone" to think that is one of his worst works...The Raven to me is the greatest love poem ever written, few even recognize it as a love poem, but if you read it and understand his mindset, it's easy to see that the love he had was so tragic he refused to love again, thus nevermore......

Dreams In The Dusk
by: Carl Sandburg

To A Stranger
by: Walt Whitman

I love The Raven myself. We actually studied it in grade school.

W.S.Mervin The Child

Gregory Corso Marriage

Jon Silkin Death of a Son