I Eat Poetry

Mods: if you'd rather me post each of these separately for tagging & whatnot, let me know and I will. My apologies for anything repeated in the archives.

Here are my ten favorite poems of all time, in no particular order. (A friend challenged me to post them.)

* ( Self-Portrait - Revan Schendler )

* ( Clenched Soul - Pablo Neruda )

* ( i like my body when it is with your - e. e. cummings )

* ( Antilamentation - Dorianne Laux )

* ( the song of mehitabel - Don Marquis )

* ( I'm In Love - Charles Bukowski )

* ( The Bistro Styx - Rita Dove )

* ( 3 parts from The Last Benjamin of Todela - Yehuda Amichai )

* ( Will They Cry When You're Gone, You Bet - Amiri Baraka/ LeRoi Jones )

* ( In Memory of M. B. - Anna Akhmatova )