What's Your Favorite Poem, and Why?

I have a couple, one for its beautiful imagery:

Green Mountain by Li Tai-Po

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;

I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.

As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,

I have a world apart that is not among men

.…and another favorite, for its harsh truth:

Much madness is divinest sense

To a discerning eye;

Much sense the starkest madness.

’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails.

Assent, and you are sane;

Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,

And handled with a chain.
- Emily Dickinson

Please share your favorite poem(s)? And why…

Photo by GraemeNicol

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