What are everyone's favorite poems? Epic poems, really short poems, serious poems, silly poems, love poems, hate poems, indifference poems, whatever. I took a seminar on poetry this past semester (with an awesome professor) to finish off my humanities requirements, and I found it all a lot more interesting than I ever thought it could be.
A few of my favorites:
"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins, about people who over-analyze poetry
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, about a woman the narrator loved
"Proverbs of Hell" by William Blake, designed to challenge commonly accepted notions of right and wrong
"Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" by Strickland Gilliland, officially the shortest poem ever published (sometimes mis-titled "Fleas"):
Adam
Had 'em