Just like the title says. What is your favorite poem? Why do you think so?

For me, my favorite poem is Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". I feel like it relates to me because I took a different path apart from others and am glad that I did so.

Without a doubt, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

I can't even put into words why I like it, it's just so amazing. The video I linked is a reading by Eliot himself.

I have a lot but the one that I'm always yelling about that doesn't get a lot of attention is Frost's "A Line-Storm Song." Special shoutout also to "Reluctance" by the same, and everything ever that Langston Hughes ever wrote.

Joy Harjo's "She Had Some Horses" is one of my favorite poems, if not my absolute favorite. Long before I even really understood what it was about it seemed powerful to me, and so it is. Absolutely beautiful.

Allowable by Nikki Giovanni. Extremely powerful for such a short poem.

"I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened"

Medusa: A Portrait by H.P. Lovecraft has to be my favorite, so hilarious and filled with bile and frustration.

His set on poesy's fascination with superficial beauty is hysterical too.

To Rhodoclia- Peerless among Maidens Were the blue of the sea and the blue of the skies Half as sweet and as pure as the blue of your eyes; Were the scent of the fields, and the flow'r-laden air Half as potent and rich as your dear golden hair (nut-brown) (raven) (silver) (crimson) Then the world were an Heaven, and mine were the bliss To write verses forever as freely as this!

I like that Frost poem too! But I gotta say, I think my favorite is "A Monstrous Manifesto" by Cat Valente (I even have it on my pet Tecki's profile)! I have a great memory of sharing it with my group at a university-sponsored LGBT camp out I attended once.

The video of Valente reading it at StrowlerCon gives me chills.

This is tricky, there are a lot of poems I love a lot. I think I'm going to go with "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the imagery in it is so strong and powerful.

I have lots of favourites, but let's go with "The Men That Don't Fit In" by Robert William Service. I guess I relate to it a lot.

And "Say Yes" by Andrea Gibson is probably one of the most beautiful poems I've ever read/heard.

My favorite poem is The Moment by Margaret Atwood ! I've gone through a number of poems but this one has stuck with me. In fact, I actually created a sculpture for one of my art classes based around 'The Moment'

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