Farewell My Lovely• Show poetry

I write poetry as it is what i am, i feel the need to write. I want my poetry to be the best it can which is why it takes me a while to compose them, none of the best poets ever composed a masterpiece in five minutes. Dylan Thomas was known to spend a whole month on one line. When i was young i wrote about the usual stuff, unrequited love, and dark feelings, but now i find myself drawn towards politics. I think a good poet not only wrote beautiful poetry but wrote of their time and was aware of the matters of the day, i want to make people aware of the injustices of the world, big and small. Not just the politics of war and reform, but of the workplace and the street. I also want to write poetry that moves people and can be sentimental but to me the most important thing in poetry is context, and by that every other decision i make is based.

Here are some of my favourite poems that i would ask people to look at, for pleasure and ispiration:

The Stolen Child - W.B. Yeats
Tommy - Rudyard Kipling
The Force That Through The Green Fuse - Dylan Thomas
England To Me Is My Own Tongue - W.H. Auden
712 - Emily Dickinson
Joan Of Arc - Leonard Cohen
The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
Lines Writtern In Early Spring - William Wordsworth
His Picture - John Donne
Sighing For Retirement - John Clare
To A Mountain Daisy - Robert Burns
Ballad Of George R. Sims - John Betjeman
The Human Abstract - William Blake
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chained - John Keats

I leave you with a quote by Yeats:
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry".