*SOME POEMS I [ACTUALLY] LIKE

[I've recently started getting into poetry....after years of having NO interest in it, what-so-ever. Here are some poems I found that I like.]

Elvis Moving a Small Cloud: The Desert Near Las Vegas, 1976 - David Wojahn

Self-Portrait at 28 - David Berman

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Wallace Stevens

Why the Hat - Jeff Tweedy

Laughs - Jeff Tweedy

[Elegy and Perisphere I-VII]

Silver Age - David Wojahn

After Montale - David Wojahn

Nite Shot Frm Italian Pavilion - David Wojahn

Superman's Mission for President Kennedy - David Wojahn

Panels - David Wojahn

Appraisal at Moondog's - David Wojahn

Invocation: The Muse of Memory and The Muse of History - David Wojahn

Rapture - Galway Kinnell

I, Too (Sing America) - Langston Hughes

Dream Song #14 - John Berryman

Some People Like Poetry - Wislawa Szymborska

In California - Margaret Levine

Snow Day - Billy Collins

Snow - David Berman

Tuesday 9:00 AM - Denver Butson

Reading Hemingway - James Cummins

Hell - Jeff Tweedy Muzzle - Jeff Tweedy

Pure Bug Beauty - Jeff Tweedy

Yachting?- Jeff Tweedy

Men at Forty - Donald Justice

Fog - Carl Sandburg

Choose - Carl Sandburg

Crimson - Carl Sandburg

Happiness - Carl Sandburg

Black Revolver - Jarret Keene

Coyote Blues - Jarret Keene

A Bright Future for Poets - Jarret Keene

Crowded Rooms - Jarret Keene

Not Waving but Drowning - Stevie Smith

I Am Going To Start Living Like A Mystic - Edward Hirsch

The Tunnel - Mark Strand

So I Said I Am Ezra - A. R. Ammons

To You - Kenneth Koch

What Denis Johnson Said When I Gave Him a Pair of X-Ray Specs - Jarret Keene

Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare

Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Sonnet 39 - Sir Philip Sidney

Song: To Celia - Ben Jonson

To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time - Robert Herrick

To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell

Saturday at the Canal - Gary Soto

Loafing - Raymond Carver

Black Dog - James DenBoer

Change - Tony Hoagland

This Is Just To Say - William Carlos Williams

Who Was That Man? - Paul Bussan

Unflushed Urinals - Donald Justice

Current - Stuart Dybek

Shakespearean Sonnet - R. S. Gwynn

Why It Often Rains in the Movies - Lawrence Raab

Snowbanks North of the House - Robert Bly

Famous - Naomi Shihab Nye