can someone please give me good links where i can find poetry to read. i am writing a poem called 'shadows of the past' . and i need to read some good pieces of poetry to get ideas, and ispiration.

Question

i don't know what my poem's going to be about, i just know that it has to be a love poem and fit in with the title

thanks

Answer 1

i've read alot of emily dickenson's poems that interest me, like "Heart, We Will Forget Him" and another one i can't remember the name of. i think "you left me".

Answer 2

http://www.poets.org

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html

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And a couple of specific poems that are very interesting:
http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/909/
and
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377