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Inspired by another thread the question is "Who are your favorite poets"?
For me it would be:
Robert Service
Kipling
Poe
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You're asking the wrong crowd my friend, unless you know of any racist/church hating poets.
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Charlie Hendron
Baxter Black
Waddie Mitchell
Bruce Kiskadoon
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I'll admit to not being a real poetry guy, but I do like to read some from time to time. Favorite poets would include Longfellow, Kipling, Browning, Keats and Burns.
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I have ran across a few pretty good schit house poets.
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Kipling, Frost, and the Bard himself, of course. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales but not much of his other work.
I was an English Lit major in college, but much preferred both later English and American writers. Couldn't stand poets like Shelley.
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
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Robert Service
Whoever wrote Beowulf ( A wind age, a wolf age. )
….and a poem written back in the ‘70’s by an Iroquois (??) tribal member about loneliness:
It’s not as bad as a leaky faucet,
but like the faucet
it has perhaps
been dripping too long.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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A wise man is frequently humbled.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
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Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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I have ran across a few pretty good schit house poets. Anonymous
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Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Jesus: "Take heed that no man deceive you."
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Frost them Kipling. Like Dylan Thomas as well.
The way life should be.
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Robert Service
I can't read his poetry on the Yukon without wanting to visit!
......the occasional hunter wielding a hopelessly inaccurate rifle, living by the fantastical rule that this cartridge can deliver the goods, regardless of shot placement or rifle accuracy. The correct term for this is minute of ego.
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Robert Service
There's strange things done in the midnight sun
by the men that moil for gold
The Arctic trails hold secret tales
That would make your blood run cold
The Northern Lights have seen strange sights
But the strangest they ever did see
Was the night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
I cremated Sam McGee
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Henry Gibson...
... Used to recite poetry on Laugh-In.
(Only fellow boomers will remember this.)
"No good deed shall go unpunished!"
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Robert Service
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute Saloon
The kid that tended the music box was hitting a ragtime tune
When out of the night, which was forty below, and into the din and the glare
There stumbled a miner, fresh from the creeks, dog dirty and loaded for bear
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