Favorite Poets, I'm sure you all have at least one, maybe two, maybe more! Options

[*superstitious*]

My personal favorite is Dorothy Parker. She has such wit and biting sarcasm and a unique style, especially for her day and age. She was happy in her unhappiness, a total walking contradiction. She was one of the first writers of The New Yorker.

I could really go on for days. She has been a constant source of inspiration, both as a brilliant writer and as a woman of strength and undeniable character.

One of my favorite poems:

Bohemia

Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Sculptors and singers and those of their kidney
Tell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney.
Playwrights and poets and such horses' necks
Start off from anywhere, end up at sex.
Diarists, critics, and similar roe
Never say nothing, and never say no.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!

For more information:
Dorothy Parker Society

List yours if you have favorites (I'm sure someone has to!) If you could, write a little about them. What makes them your favorite? Have they inspired you? Perhaps share a favorite poem.

(I'm sure this has been done before, but a fresh one isn't such a terrible thing, is it?)

[jesusisthebestth...]

i've always loved Langston Hughes, my favorite of his is Battle of the Landlord

Landlord, landlord,
My roof has sprung a leak.
Don't you 'member I told you about it
Way last week?

Landlord, landlord,
These steps is broken down.
When you come up yourself
It's a wonder you don't fall down.

Ten Bucks you say I owe you?
Ten Bucks you say is due?
Well, that's Ten Bucks more'n I'l pay you
Till you flx this house up new.

What? You gonna get eviction orders?
You gonna cut off my heat?
You gonna take my furniture and
Throw it in the street?

Um-huh! You talking high and mighty.
Talk on-till you get through.
You ain't gonn a be able to say a word
If I land my fist on you.

Police! Police!
Come and get this man!
He's trying to ruin the government
And overturn the land!

Copper's whistle!
Patrol bell!
Arrest.
Precinct Station.
Iron cell.
Headlines in press:
MAN THREATENS LANDLORD
TENANT HELD NO BAIL
JUDGE GIVES NEGRO 90 DAYS IN COUNTY JAIL!