My favorite poem is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.
I have always like it since the first time I read it, but I have never known why
Anyway… what is your favorite poem??
My favorite poem is probably The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson. It’s got an amazing flow to it, its one of those poems that you just have to read out loud, even if you’re by yourself.
Dante’s Inferno. Hey, I like Epics.
If you mean more traditional poems, then EA Poe’s, “The Raven”.
While I certainly appreciate and enjoy “serious” poetry, my heart has always belonged to the more light-hearted verse out there.
My vote’s for Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll.
Zev Steinhardt
“The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service.
Was it funny … or not? 
Like HPL, I like epics –Iliad, Odyssey, the shortest of the ones I like is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Of shorter poems, I like Shelley’s Ozymandias. The altered meaning in the last line is priceless.
By Unknown:
Her feet went into the air
Her face turned crimson red
She felt both dark and damp
And she wished that she were dead
The moral to my story
Is never sit down abrupt
Always look behind you
For the seat may still be up
I’m not a huge reader of poetry, but, like LVgeogeek, I’m quite fond of Eliot. The Wasteland and Four Quartets have always amazed me.
There’s a contemporary poet named Sherman Alexie who wrote an incredibly beautiful poem called Tiny Treaties. His stuff is all in print currently, I believe. It’s not the dense, allusive stuff of Eliot – it’s a bit more accessible, but no less an artistic achievement.
What altered meaning of the last line?
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour, by Wallace Stevens.
Actually, lines 10 and 11 in this copy. Read the note for line 10:
I think the last line of Ozymandias is ironic…
But, I like ‘Jesse James’ by Richard Brautigan a lot . I think that’s the title anyway.
Yeah, I was thinking of those lines as the last line too. “look on my works, and despair!”
“Lapis Lazuli,” by Yeats. Narrowly beats out “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Stevens, as well as a few other candidates, but for today, Yeats.
I like it too, despite Fr. Deboiser tellng his English class that it contained “what is universally agreed to be the worst line in English poetry”:
“Tirra lirra,” by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.
Thanks for the link! Here is my favorite,
I can hear them fighting in the lines:
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
So, sue me! 
The Man Who Knew by Robert Service, sorry no link, errors on page, but look here:
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/service/man_who_knew.html
It reminds me not to get too judgemental when I am reading/looking at something. Most of the time I’m far too easy to declair something crap.
raz, I hadn’t read The Lady of Shallott since high-school oh, um, probably like 10 years :o , thanks for the link
zev I like the lighthearted poems as well
And even though they are a bit juvenille, I still like the Shel Silverstein poems too.
My husband really likes Ulysses’ Oddessy
Personally, I tend to favor my own performance poetry, however I enjoy this one by Marc Smith and this one by Scott Woods and the incomparable Regie Gibson.
The classics are the classics, and as such, the truth of their excellence is generally above reproach, but I prefer the more urbane poetry, with the grit of life roughing up the words a bit.
I love Walt Whitman…one of my favorites:
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/13182
Also this one:
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/13183
Admittedly, I’m not well-versed in poetry, only wish I was.