What poems do you like?

[Nico Robin Fan 95]

Hello everyone and welcome to this new thread here. I wanted to create this topic since a few days but i never had the time to do this until now. I love poetry a lot and i already listened to some poems, but of course there are still more that i have to discover yet and maybe you can also recommend me some other poems if you want to. My favorite poem is Ozymandias by Percy Byshee Shelley which i discovered last year, and i love to hear Vincent Price's voice while he reads that poem in such a magnificent way. My second favorite poem is Remember by Christina Rossetti which i discovered this month, and i immediately liked it when i heard the beautiful voice of Rosamund Pike who read this poem in such a emotional way that it almost made me cry. So yeah these two are my favorite poems, but what about you guys? Are these two poems also your favorites? or is it another poem that you would consider it your favorite? You can also name two poems or just one, or you can also name several poems if you want to. 

Edited March 27, 2025 by Nico Robin Fan 95

[Zeref]

I'm probably bias in the sense that I don't read much poetry unless my friends write it and it always sounds like the best thing ever wrote to me. I never had talent for poetry but I enjoy reading it when people share it. 

There is one particular poem I've heard that I did remember and enjoy was called "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott which talks about self-love and acceptance and that stuck with me. 

[Sakura]

I haven't heard the ones you've mentioned I'm going to look them up though and listen to them

I like a lot of old poets like Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and I honestly love Shakespeare so much. I think I've read everything related to Shakespeare that there is and I like going to plays that center around his works too ~ 

Some of my favorites are:
Quand vous serez bien vieille - Pierre de Ronsard
Salut d'amour - Edward Elgar
She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
Fire & Ice - Robert Frost
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Demain, dès l’aube - Victor Hugo
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
There Will Come Soft Rains - Sara Teasdale
Chanson d’automne - Paul Verlaine
Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
I Carry Your Heart With Me - E. E. Cummings
I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love Song - Rainer Maria Rilke
Alive Together - Lisel Mueller

So this is some of my top ones ~ I like a lot of French poetry mostly to do with because I think it sounds beautiful lol 

Edited March 28, 2025 by Sakura

[Digimon_Sommelier]

All my poems!

[Colu]

My favourite poem ever is actually a haiku that my husband wrote for me, I’ll try to remember to share it later!

Ah, and there’s another poem I remember greatly enjoying when it was introduced to me way back in high school, but I’ll need to think on what the name was.  
 

My husband has a book with some of Poe’s stuff, which we sometimes take turns reading to each other. 

[Sakura]

4 hours ago, CornedBeef said:

I like Poe!  I prefer short stories than poems but The Raven is so iconic!  He is so talented.

Yassss The Raven is really good, I don't think he's written anything bad tbh he was so good. I'd like to be able to write that well @.@ 

I love writing poetry but I'm under no delusion that I write well or that any of it is very good lol 

 

[Animedragon]

15 hours ago, Sakura said:

I love writing poetry but I'm under no delusion that I write well or that any of it is very good lol 

I disagree, you write really beautiful poetry.

[Sakura]

9 hours ago, CornedBeef said:

I read your Letting You Go poem and it's pretty good.  Just keep reading and writing and practicing.

Thanks, usually I really don't try to write poetry but I guess it comes out that way lol I mostly just write whatever I'm feeling at the time I can't process any other way than to write. 

4 hours ago, Animedragon said:

I disagree, you write really beautiful poetry.

Thank yuu  I'm really glad some people enjoy it or can relate to it. 

 

[Nico Robin Fan 95]

Which two poems i also discovered a while ago, and are also one of my favorites now are these two here.

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Vincent Price's version of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, is the best so far in my opinion. He read that poem in such a epic and marvelous way, and i can listen to his beautiful voice for hours.  This poem is long, but it's worth to listen to it if you like listening to long poems like i do. I can only recommend this to you, but if you don't like it then it's fine. Not everyone likes all poems, and also not especially long poems.

Same with The Raven, which he also read and i like his version of this poem as well. But i also like Sir Christopher lee's version of The Raven. I personally think, both did a great job reciting this amazing poem.

[Colu]

On 3/29/2025 at 8:14 PM, Colu said:

Ah, and there’s another poem I remember greatly enjoying when it was introduced to me way back in high school, but I’ll need to think on what the name was.  

Ah ha! Forgot about this until now so just did a little dig and found it! I’m going to share the Spotify link (should be able to find it in other music streaming too) for it because the recording with the background music is what I was originally introduced to, but I’ll also put the poem itself in a spoiler (it’s a long one)

Atlantis by Shane Koyczan

Your entire body shakes you when laugh,
As if your sense of humour was built on a fault line
And the coast of your heart
Falls into the ocean of yourself
And I'm left looking for this Atlantis.

Left looking for this place
That exists in the stories told by old men
Who were there when mathematics assured them.
Their willingness to believe
Was greater than their determination to dismiss
I'm left looking for Atlantis.

Regardless of the scientist that insists
My efforts would be better spent
Unearthing clues to where the wild things went.

Try as it might,
Faith can't put a dent fact.
So we must settle for science re-enact the world,
As if the universe was curled around this globe

And if we consider that the universe is never ending
Then we're not even a microbe.
We're like a death threat from a pacifist,
We're nothing.

But the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that:
"Nothing is fo' shizzle"
And the interesting thing about that
Is that it ensures that the principle itself can't even be a fact.

But we still act as though
This time we can see the forest through the trees.
Regardless of the soft wood lumber levies,
We fall in line like reforested pine.

It's all straight rows
Were everything grows a little less wild,
A little more humdrum,
Ho, hum.

We come from the mentality
That rarely sees the horror in symmetry
Or the beauty in non-conformity.
We insist that for us,
Everything must be clear cut.

But what about philosophy?
What about the tree that fell in the forest
That no one was around to hear?
It's a little less clear,
A little more deep.
Deep like,

If Oprah Winfrey farts in a bathtub
And no bubbles come to the surface,
Is there an alternate universe
Where the price of gas is cheap?

Possible,
But we can't prove it,
Any more than we can prove
That light can move fast enough
To stop a monster hiding in the closet.

We deposit our faith in fear
But clear our minds to the possibility that
Maybe we as adults,
Still get scared of the dark.
Things that go bump in the night.

And I can't prove that I've ever loved anyone,
But despite the smoking
And the overweight body
I want to grow old with you.

Go through muscle and joint pains
To the point that every time it rains
We can feel it in our knees.
Get arthritis so bad,
That every time we move
We sound like two bowls of Rice Krispies.

We're all "Snap, Crackle and pop"
But we still take the time to stop,
And take the time.
I'm looking for Atlantis.

Letting faith turn this fiction into fact
As if I tracked this missing continent for decades,
And all I know so far
Is that it is somewhere under water.

I'm looking for clues in the most blurry photos of UFOs
And thinking,
If alien are so smart,
Than why don't they start making their spaceships look like airplanes?
That way we'd just point to the sky and say:
"An airplane, how common place and not at all suspect."

We're all shipwrecked on this idea
That everything has to be explained.
But maybe we just need to believe
That lemmings jump off cliffs to prove that they love us.

And sure,
That sacrifice is as empty as the box of condoms
That politicians used when they thought they could fuck us.
But it is nice to believe that somebody up there
Cares enough to plummet onto jagged, back-breaking rocks
In an attempt to tells us,
We're beautiful.

Tell us that as far as life goes,
Our finger prints are like snowflakes.
We leave them on everything
But they melt in the time it takes to touch someone's tongue.

But if we're lucky,
Maybe we're remembered
Along with the sunken cities of a lost continent.

This is for each child
Who is a monument to the one's who came before.
Maybe the best we can hope for
Is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing
That we're born out of love,
And not science.

That biology explains the how,
Love explains the why,
So in the event of our deaths
We hereby bequeath all of these words to you.

And they are only meant to say that
Uncertainty is something everyone goes through.
And there is not much in the way of proof
But believe me, we loved you.

We held our breaths for your first step,
Your first word.
We laughed when it finally occurred to you,
Lemons are sour.

This is for every time
Love becomes the finest minute and the darkest hour.
This if for those who scour the streets
Wondering where the wild things went.
For the believers who leant us their madness.
This is for everyone we miss.

And this is for the children who were lost.
Sadness is nothing more than the cost of being able to smile
Once in a while.
And grief is the trial we stand to offer evidence
That your finger prints were left on our hearts
And our skin,

And in terms of proof,
Love can be demonstrated in giving.
Our lives consist of the efforts we give
In swimming towards the lost continent
Where you are rumoured to be living.

[Jellal]

I always liked Edgar Allen Poe and John Milton, with Paradise Lost being my favorite poem.

[Ayame]

23 hours ago, Jellal said:

I always liked Edgar Allen Poe and John Milton, with Paradise Lost being my favorite poem.

Paradise Lost is a great poem!

[Jellal]

On 2/22/2026 at 12:09 PM, Ayame said:

Paradise Lost is a great poem!

Yeah it's a good one with another good one being " When I Consider How My Light Is Spent " by him.