what's your poem?

love that one so much i moved to the canal in question tbh

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50986/paradoxes-and-oxymorons

A FOOTFALL TAPPING SECRECIES OF STONE

kavanagh stop it

As I wend to the shores I know not,
As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck’d,
As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,
As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
I too but signify at the utmost a little wash’d-up drift,
A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.

O baffled, balk’d, bent to the very earth,
Oppress’d with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
But that before all my arrogant poems the real Me stands yet untouch’d, untold, altogether unreach’d,
Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows,
With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.

I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

love these, keep em comin

I have a feeling I’ve already shared this here, but:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50986/paradoxes-and-oxymorons

Ha! Yes! I already have

I got this one via Poetry Daily, I don't know that it's a "favorite" but it's one that stuck with me.

https://poems.com/poem/juvenilia/#featured-poet

“This Dark Apartment”, James Schuyler, 1980

Coming from the deli
a block away today I
saw the UN building
shine and in all the
months and years I’ve
lived in this apartment
I took so you and I
would have a place to
meet I never noticed
that it was in my view.

I remember very well
the morning I walked in
and found you in bed
with X. He dressed
and left. You dressed
too. I said, “Stay
five minutes.” You
did. You said, “That’s
the way it is.” It
was not much of a surprise.

Then X got on speed
and ripped off an
antique chest and an
air conditioner, etc.
After he was gone and
you had changed the
Segal lock, I asked
you on the phone, “Can’t
you be content with
your wife and me?” “I’m
not built that way,”
you said. No surprise.

Now, without saying
why, you’ve let me go.
You don’t return my
calls, who used to call
me almost every evening
when I lived in the coun-
try. “Hasn’t he told you
why?” “No, and I doubt he
ever will.” Goodbye. It’s
mysterious and frustrating.

How I wish you would come
back! I could tell
you how, when I lived
on East 49th, first
with Frank and then with John,
we had a lovely view of
the UN building and the
Beekman Towers. They were
not my lovers, though.
You were. You said so.

i always post this and im never sorry:

The day dawns, with scent of must and rain,
Of opened soil, dark trees, dry bedroom air.
Under the fading lamp, half dressed -- my brain
Idling on some compulsive fantasy --
I towel my shaven jaw and stop, and stare,
Riveted by a dark exhausted eye,
A dry downturning mouth.
It seems again that it is time to learn,
In this untiring, crumbling place of growth
To which, for the time being, I return.
Now plainly in the mirror of my soul
I read that I have looked my last on youth
And little more; for they are not made whole
That reach the age of Christ.

Below my window the wakening trees,
Hacked clean for better bearing, stand defaced
Suffering their brute necessities;
And how should the flesh not quail, that span for span
Is mutilated more? In slow distaste
I fold my towel with what grace I can,
Not young, and not renewable, but man.

i have only made one poem, in 2013, but it's pretty epic. i fed Alan Ginsberg's 'Howl' into every language on Google translate and finally back to English like a game of telephone:

Radyositi most.
Music is dead.
During the next few years.

The

Emergency Aluminium and Sphinx.
? And ideas.
First, JP, Ashtrays "Our children ... -.
Lower stairs crying. Call Baby reply
I do not know.
Or not. Before? Sugar shock! Do you want to! Has
You're looking for swimming!
10 point box.
Pain and movement.
Add module to stand BlackBerry.
?
Technology in the future. I remember the blood.
Money! Rufus is 10 centimeters! Perched book.
Taking the kanibais public smoking volcano.
Moore, thousands window blind Black Tower.
A music moloki.
You will spend and Malta.
For Akron.
Welcome to the olive bar pressure.
Bank espirito Santa moloki.
Hydrogen ears cool! Moloki.
To
Download Black Angels photography.
I do not have sex before another busy?
March gray in my life.
The entire staff. Fear of the water.
Jam! Contact your system with great sea! Light
Sony Ericsson Download Paradise!
Or not. First of all, I am not a robot or a financial institution.
Action! International trade and human rights? Courses abroad.
A Hardworking.
Mountain road timber radio bar or not.
If you are in London for a long time?
Zion I jineunghyeongneun? He said,? U.S.. It.
Water!
Gold Service? Light! While there are many reasons to search.
Skip
A. Changing the river? Torrent
This is very important! He knows! You will not be disappointed. Decades, animals, and the idea of ​​suicide.
I'm sure it will be as a new song! Ads.
Ventilation water? Jerusalem Jerusalem gallon.
I do not know? Did you know? Bad
Cherry Beach water groups.

wait that's not all of it, here's the whole thing:

Michigan თაობის Furthermore, as frenezo ეს khomeini (Raw) market
We Nirvana.
Serkan art agadoj frenezo.
Defina.
Paradizo მემშიერიბაზარზე Bruno Crazy Hippie angel.
Michigan City, with khomeini შიშველიისტერიული as frenezo.
We Nirvana.
On Tuesday, the stock agadoj frenezo serkan.
Defina.
But it is poor milk Marketing Madness angel, our thirst malnate beauty paradizo Bruno.
Drum surexite.
Kouture.
Selection
Pre-sized entertainment.
Racing at night.
Poverty and beverages, clothing.
Welcome to the Magic of Winter Debris.
Panorama of Armenia.
Blue Angel and it forget.
Hit Bishop Street.
Cold heart failure.
Science and SRS tragedy of war.
The song was published online.
Warning Skull
Conflicts and save time.
Have you ever heard of a Box.
Results Brad.
Marijuana, New York.
Emissyons TV and Beverage (I), died looking for.
Christmas Eve night the body.
Drugs, alcohol, and his son, Lao groups.
Hengelo.
The light.
Patterson, CA Canada, to encourage positive thinking in Missouri.
Photo.
The drinking green areas and trees flying dream.
Ennessa teahead neon.
Pressure sensors, potatoes, sun, photography, trees.
Brooklyn Winter neukkyeotdagva.
News
Limited battery life.
Children bronka albnzidrin fear of the wheel.
Earthquake, fire, black religion.
Light Mountain Park apologize.
Bekkford water.
Fugazza beer.
Ⅱ music died.
Ωρες Bell Auto Group 70
Museum Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge).
Deregister.
However, the
Development riveyara small and yakketayakking.
The poor, sick humor and fun and action.
Seven days and seven nights, and lots of restaurants.
CPS.
New Jersey.
President Treasurer of Atlantic City.
Ryan bones, headaches, sweating.
I really blue, black.
Turn, Food and Rural Development Center.
Nokia Mobile Phone.
Tobacco and discomfort.
Farmers evening.
- San Juan (San Juan), your feelings.
Enstenktivman grace.
State Idaho Street, Los Angeles, Italy.
Angel Eyes Romania.
Local Baltimore.
Group
Buying, downloading, Oklahoma.
Of the way the winter.
Jazz, Houston, thirst, sex, and so on.
Spain and elsewhere.
Africa yet.
Mexican volcano.
Wash and extrapolasyon high.
Chicago
West Bank, jaw, small eyes ef.bi. Intelligence ..
Make sure my skin.
At the end of the course.
Products
Capital
(Square (unirey also updated)) super pryoritizatyon European (EU).
Siren Rama.
Motherboard, melting, staten Island Fairy.
Clear water, white shirt, then.
Carriage return, then
Police said.
Unfortunately, development of the village.
Needle
For example, one of the most important links.
Laos - A man and Wavelength half signature.
Santander Drying.
I cried.
Navastinere complaint arteries and veins leading safety.
Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
Today, tomorrow, and the courage.
Information and communication Seeds're park.
To
Dr. Marina virus.
Tomb angels young.
Games
Damage in humans.
Less.
They are annoying.
Holiday best.
Bottle of beer.
Southwest and area - based wax.
Powder charge will not be reflected in Northern Europe.
John Flower mysterious package.
Malaysia
In some cases, it may be cold and dark.
Red Rider is not easy.
Area and kill nudeugva white.
Theft, prostitution, and especially in North Carolina Welcome to the night.
Welcome to Denver victory.
Food -.
Metro Cinema, mountains and caves.
Waitress Rita food.
(Nutmeg) solipsizmom died Tues
The woman
End
Family, business, bankruptcy, New York (Manhattan).
Iron altvkai a threat?
Entertainment and government.
On the night of the crime.
Then the door.
Heat
Suicide reporter Clive large banks.
Blue moon.
Forget
For example, cancer, guinea pigs, sheep fat.
Rio ball.
But endiskutabl and Onions.
Weak financial system.
Light and air.
Rogge opened.

Taj 6 train crash Harlem.
Orange County Fair.
At night, he said.
Morning clouds yellow.
Health sector programs in an attempt to reduce everything to heart.
What is the best sex.
Meat, eggs, hot
Soon
At the time, every day.
Add
Mammals Shangri well.
I know some things.

Madison, New Jersey.
Storm and Reggae.
November Nitroglycerin and advertising.
And so, whether or arm or LG HDTV PM.
Only one small problem.
Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge).
(China), China, and in the spirit world.
Prosekutors, he said, and then try again.
Metro good singer or small boxes.
Passaik books on birds and land.
Dance Platinum broken leg.
Jazz Germany nastaljeia the 1930 average.
VC sositara blood and screaming.
Fryable
Post
Maribor Castle Jazz and fish skull helmet.
72 countries at a price.
Knowledge and interest.
He died in Denver;
Denver, courage, faith, country.
Denver, Denver, Colorado today.
Listen
Church knees weak and broken lights.
And emotional pain.
Monday
Niryatanakaridera.
In the heart of the importance of beauty.
Beautiful monster.
Rocky Mountain, Buddha, and Mexican parents, and evaluation.
Some black kalkareous Pacific.
See deep 德朗 哈佛.
Skills and self - hipnosis.
Baker Cancer Group.
Energy, New York, potatoes, university later.
Granite mikrovave.
Vest immediately die.
Cut ears to the brain white matter.
Pentilenetetrazol. Island energy independent.
4 hearts bath.
Nissan.
Notes and world - renowned theme ().
Now etourdri.
Hair, blood and tears.
Madtovns inch camera died.
Wednesday
Iceland, lemon and spices conference.
Feelings Housing Bank.
Dream - to live in a nightmare.
The second term
******.
Message bedroom window.
Stone furniture vallarta, the number of Accidents.
The second part of the small yellow rules.
Pakistani clothes.
My favorite Statement of defense.
In time, the knife and society.
Accessories for Pets.
Suddenly the fish.
Release of chemical windows.
Vibration
Photo: time and space.
The President and the Prime Minister, one of the objectives to be clear, there are two angels.
Language development can be blocked.
Government calls.
Every time.
Change pvoz and female beauty.
Information and information, but declined.
Especially
A vast desert.
My skin is not serious.
Game
Kingdom and promote jazz and modern clothes.
American free market.
Owen sabatshthani earthquake.
Radyositi most.
Music is dead.
During the next few years.

The

Emergency Aluminium and Sphinx.
? And ideas.
First, JP, Ashtrays "Our children ... -.
Lower stairs crying. Call Baby reply
I do not know.
Or not. Before? Sugar shock! Do you want to! Has
You're looking for swimming!
10 point box.
Pain and movement.
Add module to stand BlackBerry.
?
Technology in the future. I remember the blood.
Money! Rufus is 10 centimeters! Perched book.
Taking the kanibais public smoking volcano.
Moore, thousands window blind Black Tower.
A music moloki.
You will spend and Malta.
For Akron.
Welcome to the olive bar pressure.
Bank espirito Santa moloki.
Hydrogen ears cool! Moloki.
To
Download Black Angels photography.
I do not have sex before another busy?
March gray in my life.
The entire staff. Fear of the water.
Jam! Contact your system with great sea! Light
Sony Ericsson Download Paradise!
Or not. First of all, I am not a robot or a financial institution.
Action! International trade and human rights? Courses abroad.
A Hardworking.
Mountain road timber radio bar or not.
If you are in London for a long time?
Zion I jineunghyeongneun? He said,? U.S.. It.
Water!
Gold Service? Light! While there are many reasons to search.
Skip
A. Changing the river? Torrent
This is very important! He knows! You will not be disappointed. Decades, animals, and the idea of ​​suicide.
I'm sure it will be as a new song! Ads.
Ventilation water? Jerusalem Jerusalem gallon.
I do not know? Did you know? Bad
Cherry Beach water groups.

Stripped nude, my soul,
on a windswept jetty,
the exhiliration of emptiness
no longer obtains.

This cruel December, my thoughts
as bare as the Atlantic.

I got this one via Poetry Daily, I don't know that it's a "favorite" but it's one that stuck with me.

https://poems.com/poem/juvenilia/#featured-poet

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 01:11 (yesterday)

My favourite poem of all time is "Long Distance II" by Tony Harrison.

Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,
put hot water bottles her side of the bed
and still went to renew her transport pass.

You couldn't just drop in. You had to phone.
He'd put you off an hour to give him time
to clear away her things and look alone
as though his still raw love were such a crime.

He couldn't risk my blight of disbelief
though sure that very soon he'd hear her key
scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief.
He knew she'd just popped out to get the tea.

I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call.