What Is Your Favorite Poem?

I love you just the way you are It doesn't matter if you're big or small That isn't who you are You are beautiful as you are Your heart is what makes you Who you are You bring out the best in others You have so much love in you That is what you do I feel very blessed by God To have you as my friend. Peace

I love poetry...don't know that I have a favorite...just ones I appreciate.  The one that came to mind with the question was "If" by Rudyard Kipling.  I love Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, silly poems by Shel Silverstein...so on.

Footprints in the Sand.

My favourite poem is 'Somersaults'.

If i could stop one heart from breaking
   I shall not live in vain
If i can ease one life the aching
   Or cool one pain

Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again
   I shall not live in vain


I can't explain why i just do you know?

The Arrow by Longfellow;  I breathed a song into the air, it fell to the earth I knew not where for who has sight so keen and strong, that it can follow the flight of song. I shot an arrow into the air, so swiftly it flew, my sight, could not follow it in it's flight, long long afterward in an Oak, I found the arrow still unbroken, and the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.[ and that is from memory, so may be missing a word or 2.]

My favorite poem is called "Heaven" and I cant really share it here for fear of plagiarism. The last time I shared one of my poems I got it back several months later with a bunch of silly pictures attached to it and credited to "author unknown". I wont let that happen again.  as for famous poets.. I love Elizabeth Barrett Browning,and Edgar Allan Poe.