Poetry to me is "music without music," but even that is an oversimplification. There are patterns of rhythm, arrangement on the page, and other things you can do with a poem that simply cannot be done with a musical composition. So what short-form and long-form poetry do I find inspiring? Here's a list...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante (Alighieri), Robert Frost, Homer, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
DANTE (ALIGHIERI)
ROBERT FROST
HOMER
"The Illiad," "The Odyssey"
LANGSTON HUGHES
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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"Canterbury Tales"
The Divine Comedy -- "The Inferno," "The Purgatorio," "The Paradiso"
"The Road Not Taken"
"A Dream Deferred"
"Annabel Lee," "The Raven"
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