My Favorite Poems

A list of my personal favorite poetry, in no particular order.

• My God, It's Full of Stars [Tracy K Smith]
• The Tyger [William Blake]
• For M [Mikko Harvey]
• Peonies [Mary Oliver]
• The Orange [Wendy Cope]
• Immortality [Clare Herner]
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night [Dylan Thomas]
• Sonnet 29 [William Shakespeare]
• Ich [J. W. Curry]
• Wild Geese [Mary Oliver]
• Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory [C. T. Salazar]
• It Was Like This: You Were Happy [Jane Hirschfield]
• Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede [Richard Silken
• Praying [Mary Oliver]
• Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town [John Phillip Johnson]
• Answer To A Beautiful Poem [George Gordon, Lord Byron]
• Rannoch, By Glencoe [T. S. Eliot]
• Ozymandias [Percy Bysshe Shelley]
• The Two-Headed Calf [Laura Gilpin]
• The Bath [Laura Gilpin]
• Seeing a Dog in the Rain [Laura Gilpin]
• Some Rules [Wendy Cope]
• North Country [Mary Oliver]
• Invitation [Mary Oliver]
• that's a lot of dogs poem [Dalton Day]
• On a Train [Wendy Cope]
• On the Back Porch [Dorianne Laux]
• Flare [Mary Oliver]
• Worm Moon [Mary Oliver]
• The Sciences Sing a Lullabye [Albert Goldbarth]
• Mowing [Ada Limón]
• Sleeping In The Forest [Mary Oliver]
• The Peace of Wild Things [Wendell Berry]
• The Cremation of Sam McGee [Robert W. Service]
• There Will Come Soft Rains [Sara Teasdale]
• Clown [Chelsey Minnis]
• Antigonish (I met a man who wasn't there) [Hughes Mearns]
• LET YOUR FATHER DIE ENERGY DRINK [Cecilia Corrigan]
• The Experiment [Wisława Szymborska]
• Getting Down at the Fat Girl's Ball [Betty Rose Dudley]
• temple [Ashlee Haze]
• Rain, New Year's Eve [Maggie Smith]
• FOR THE STRAIGHT FOLKS WHO DON'T MIND GAYS BUT WISH THEY WEREN'T SO BLATANT [Pat Parker]
• Boot Theory [Richard Silken]
• One Need Not be a Chamber- to be Haunted [Emily Dickinson]
• Start Here [Caitlyn Siehl]
• Ash [Tracy K. Smith]
• Crazy Little Love Song [Mary Oliver]
• Out, Out- [Robert Frost]
• Why Are You Haunted? [Joan Tierney]
• The Second Coming [William Butner Yeats]
• Syllogism for Palestinian Grief [Summer Awad]
• Various Mary Oliver poems about herons & egrets
• The Summer Day [Mary Oliver]
• Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay [Idris Anderson]