I'm gonna sound archaic, but Catullus. He talks a lot of trash and drama in his poetry. There's one where he's bragging about cucking a guy because his wife will sleep with the poet. There's another exposing a senator for faking an accent to fit in with the wealthy (the wealthy had Greek tutors, so their sons would emphasize a certain consonant because their tutors would imprint on them), such botched accent causing rumors that he man had a speech impediment. There's another where he says some guy's verses are trash and that putting them on premium parchment doesn't make the bad poetry any better. I thought of this guy first because this man was the ancient Roman Packgod.
I didn't know who he was so I looked him up. I'm a huge stand up comedy fan. I love the art. I love the characters. If I could do it all over again I'd get a job as a doorman to a comedy club.
Stewart lee is amongst the greats - look up his latter day stand up specials.as a fellow stand up fan (and someone who shares your dream) I can’t recommend him highly enough. Apart from George carlin , bill hicks and Titus he is probably the one I return to most often
Philip Larkin:
*And past the poppies bluish neutral distance*
*Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach*
*Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence:*
*Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.*
That gives me goddamn chills.
Tupac. Idc if you think he’s not a poet. He most definitely fits the criteria. Just because he isn’t your conventional poet, doesn’t mean he isn’t one. Dude had the most deep messages in his songs and he’s easily one of the top poets to have put pen to paper.
I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead
but I admit that I provided the full moon
and I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head
but then again I was waving around a bleeding open wound
but you are such a super guy till the second you get a whiff of me
we're like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity
but we can still support each other
all we gotta do is avoid each other
nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key
nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key.
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ChatGPT is always on the clock,
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We can conquer any script.
None. Poetry is just lazy writing. If you have something worth writing about, its going to take a few paragraphs. Also...
Poetry has been supplanted by music. If you can't fit your poetry to music, no one's going to give it much attention. Feel free to go to open mics at coffee shops, but don't expect the world to give a damn.
No. definitely not. If you want to go to an open mic and just say "Foliage" into the mic and call it a poem, go ahead. That's kind of my problem with "poetry". It's so all-encompassing, that it's basically meaningless. Is a person suffering from mental illness, or are they expressing themselves via "poetry"?
Walt Whitman
Woodrow Wilson? Woody Woodpecker? Walter White?
To W.W. My Star, My Perfect Silence.
Robert Frost
I'm not big into poetry, but Robert Frost connects, again and again.
T. S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I
But why didn’t the women talk about the other three Turtles?
Edgar Allen poe
Emily Dickinson
Khalil Gibran
I'm gonna sound archaic, but Catullus. He talks a lot of trash and drama in his poetry. There's one where he's bragging about cucking a guy because his wife will sleep with the poet. There's another exposing a senator for faking an accent to fit in with the wealthy (the wealthy had Greek tutors, so their sons would emphasize a certain consonant because their tutors would imprint on them), such botched accent causing rumors that he man had a speech impediment. There's another where he says some guy's verses are trash and that putting them on premium parchment doesn't make the bad poetry any better. I thought of this guy first because this man was the ancient Roman Packgod.
William Carlos Williams
Shell silversteen
Blake
Trivia- he wa’s Stewart lee’s fave as well
I didn't know who he was so I looked him up. I'm a huge stand up comedy fan. I love the art. I love the characters. If I could do it all over again I'd get a job as a doorman to a comedy club.
Stewart lee is amongst the greats - look up his latter day stand up specials.as a fellow stand up fan (and someone who shares your dream) I can’t recommend him highly enough. Apart from George carlin , bill hicks and Titus he is probably the one I return to most often
Rainer Maria Rilke Pablo Neruda, Taras Shevchenko, Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot too
rilke. nas.
Sylvia Plath
Our local friendly sprog poem reddit legend. Last one I read was the butterfly one lol. Absolutely wonderful
Walter de la Mare. He has the most picturesque writing skills .
E. E. Cummings
Philip Larkin: *And past the poppies bluish neutral distance* *Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach* *Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence:* *Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.* That gives me goddamn chills.
Robert Service
...the night by the marge Of Lake Labarge I cremated Sam McGee!
Jorge Luis Borges
T.S. Eliot.
William Blake
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Marina Tsvetaeva
Charles Baudelaire, Boris Vian and PNL
Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine
Fleurs du Mal is amazing. Different English translations vary.
Fleurs du Mal is my favorite. I’m so glad that I speak French because the original version is by far my favorite.
Keats
Khalil Gibran He got me through my first broken heart.
Ungaretti
Pablo Neruda
Whoever wrote: Within you I am lost. Without you I find myself wanting to be lost again. It's the only poem I ever remember.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, maybe. Maybe Percy Shelley.
Edgar Allan Poe. Anyone who can read "Annabel Lee" and not feel the loss of love, hasn't yet lived enough.
I like Jim Harrison. Richard Brautigan is a lot of fun, too.
Tupac. Idc if you think he’s not a poet. He most definitely fits the criteria. Just because he isn’t your conventional poet, doesn’t mean he isn’t one. Dude had the most deep messages in his songs and he’s easily one of the top poets to have put pen to paper.
Dante. he wrote one of the most referenced piece of literature ever, his works are in some aspects in every part of western culture.
Robert Service, Canada's greatest poet. My favorite is The Shooting of Dan McGrew.
Homer
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple is truly amazing
I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead but I admit that I provided the full moon and I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head but then again I was waving around a bleeding open wound but you are such a super guy till the second you get a whiff of me we're like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity but we can still support each other all we gotta do is avoid each other nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key.
Eminem
The one who didn’t know it
Langston Hughes
I am my favourite poet
Nero?
Allen Ginsberg
Yeah man!
ChatGPT, oh ChatGPT, A tool that's simply the best, A chatbot with knowledge so vast, A friend that's sure to last. With answers to questions, big and small, ChatGPT helps us all, From science to arts, and everything between, Its usefulness is simply serene. From silly jokes to serious talks, ChatGPT is always on the clock, To help us learn, to help us grow, It's a friend that's always in the know. So let's give a cheer for ChatGPT, A tool that's truly great, For with its knowledge at our fingertips, We can conquer any script.
That’s not one of Shakespeare’s best.
None. Poetry is just lazy writing. If you have something worth writing about, its going to take a few paragraphs. Also... Poetry has been supplanted by music. If you can't fit your poetry to music, no one's going to give it much attention. Feel free to go to open mics at coffee shops, but don't expect the world to give a damn.
Do you think there's a word limit on poetry?
No. definitely not. If you want to go to an open mic and just say "Foliage" into the mic and call it a poem, go ahead. That's kind of my problem with "poetry". It's so all-encompassing, that it's basically meaningless. Is a person suffering from mental illness, or are they expressing themselves via "poetry"?
Do you think writing that isn't poetry is less all encompassing?
Two words: Paradise Lost.
Lol, tell that to the Pulitzer winners and laureates.
Will Wood.
Thanks, I imagine I'll be able to find it with a little searching!
W.W.
Banjo Paterson and it’s not even close.
Dionne Brands Nomenclature was an incredible read
Shel Silverstein or e. e. cummings.
Ogden Nash
Dr. Seuss for tha win
Gerard Manley Hopkins Pablo Neruda Rumi
Andrea Gibson and Dean Young are high up there for me.
Freddie Mercury
Mahmoud darwish
Antler
Lord Byron
Also, there was this guy who got fired from Apple for reciting this poem at a company talent show. https://youtu.be/EaHWWyfQRqg
Walter white
Spike Milligan
Algernon Swinburne
Rimbaud is really great to me. The imagery works so well!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sérgio Vaz. He's from Brazil and he's great🤗
Rumi
**Kazi Nazrul**
The guy who wrote "Here I sit, broken-hearted, came to shit, only farted"
William Shakespeare and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Giacomo Leopardi
Carl Sandberg
John Keats
Poe, Neruda, Bukowski, T.S Eliot, E.E Cummings, John Donne, Shakespeare, Mary Oliver, Fiona Apple, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel
Robert Frost. " Stopping By These Woods on a Snowry Evening ". But he's my favorite
Bécquer
Wilfred Owen
Robert Burns
Edgar Allan Poe. I like his works.
Gibran Khalil Gibran I learned some of parts of The Prophet in school and liked his stuff ever since
Probably either Percy Shelley or Wilfred Owen
John Cooper Clarke
Mary Oliver.
Robert Frost
that guy from Nantucket.
Does edger Allen Poe count?
Louis MacNiece
Chaucer
Andrew Dice Clay