ITT your favorite poetry [poetry]

I start
my favorite poet is Jim Morrison
I am the King Lizard it can do everything
his poetry even helped me seduce my GF ;)

also Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven

Have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and becomes a host, and then a master?
Ay, and it becomes a tamer, and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires.
Though its hands are silken, its heart is of iron.
It lulls you to sleep only to stand by your bed and jeer at the dignity of the flesh.
It makes mock of your sound senses, and lays them in thistledown like fragile vessels.
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.
It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.
You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lest walls should crack and fall down.
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
And though of magnificence and splendour, your house shall not hold your secret nor shelter your longing.

this is good man
good shit
i enjoyed it

>>4
Kahil Gibran is an excellent writer. Shakespeare's prose is good too, but his prose takes a lot of deciphering.

Also New York poetry is pretty good: the rock band King Missile for instance. And this guy too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-90x8s9JNI&list=TL7qDxFmPsllY

>>5
For a second I thought "oh shit I just read a sandnigger", but then:
Gibran Khalil Gibran was born into a Maronite Catholic ...
Fine. Fine.

>>6
What would be the difference?

>>7
What difference? Between good and evil? I doubt you can grasp this concept.

>>5
Some fucking rock band is good poetry now? no, homer > everything else

get some class, idiot

>>9
Personally, I'm a fan of Virgil.  I unfortunately do not have the skills required to read Homer properly, but I can scrape through Latin authors given a dictionary and some time.  Catullus and Horace are very much in vogue now, but I find both of them too crude and unpolished at times.  I suspect I would prefer Virgil over Homer as well, since Homer's works were designed to be memorable and repeatable, while the Neoterics focused on applying as much skill as possible to each word and line of their poems.

To be pathologically on-topic (and hopefully not to cute), I think this translates well into programming languages.  Authors such as my beloved Neoterics would write works corresponding to Assembly language programs, or perhaps APL and K, while modern ``artists'' would be web designers or UML users who don't bother to actually learning the mechanics of their trade, or at best Java and Python programmers, all performing operations in the same, cliched ways that are completely interchangable, always carefully protected from specialization without pages of boilerplate.

>>10
*``not too cute'', of course. Mea culpa as the pretentious say, and since I'm being pretentious as well, why the fuck not?

>>10,11
Please post more, I thought I was the only person here who read Latin and Greek literature and was too shy to confess it. I enjoy Anacreon and Sappho (ok, what remains of her complete work fits on a sheet of paper, but still)

I haven't read much Latin poetry. I'm an absolute fan of Juvenal and a few pages of Seneca always calm my tormented soul (but that's not poetry.)