Your favourite poet?
 

I've been reading a lot of poetry lately, and I thought some discussion would be interesting. My all time favourite is Robert Frost without a doubt. He conveys such a sense of melancholy beauty in every sentence. Especially "After Apple Picking" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". I once saw a choral version of the latter set to music performed, and it was possibly the most poignant piece of music I've ever heard.

E.E. Cummings

l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness

no clue who my favorite would be, but richard siken's crush is a wonderful collection of poetry. i thought maggie nelson's bluets was nice too, as well as brautigan's pill versus the springhill mine disaster.

anis mojgani is usually great, but there's a poem or so of his that i don't dig as much from time to time

Aleister Crowley, very morbid and freaky poetry

Music is poetry. Or I like to think of it as that.

Does posting lyrics count?

I think Keats is a poet who has a consistent hold on my heart.

I def wanna check some Bukowski, I'm always kinda thinking I won't like the Beat types like I think he's associated with but he seems to have a more self-deprecating aura about him

^that and... you know... creepy misogyny.

fvcking what?

I hate this kinda ****. Got something to say? Say it. Eloquence is one thing but absurd rearrangement for the sake of being confusing is just boring

It's a testament to loneliness. The image of a leaf falling speaks for itself in that sense. The use of one, the stand-alone l (which looks like I or 1), iness ("I"-ness) and the shape of the poem too all attributes to that. The grouping of the lettering in pairs conveys a sense of longing to break the loneliness as well, and l(a suggests that there's a barrier between 1 and a(nother). Preciseness is great but I appreciate Cummings a lot more because of how much you can find in it. I don't think that it's strictly to be confusing since it adds so much more to the poem.