15 best poets who are called best poets of the world who taught others through their poems.
Poems written for these best poets in contest called who taught you more through his/her poem or styles:
Edgar A. Guest the Poet
by All Red Jay
Edgar A. Guest was a lovely poet
His poems were nice and simple,
He told of kindness and family joys
Of babies and their dimples.
His poems had a flowing meter
They were gems within his time,
The message was always wholesome
Fluent with well-done rhyme.
Eddie would tell about childhood days
About summer and the fall,
Not like the modern twisted poems
That cause your skin to crawl.
So if you’re looking for poems that soothe
Go look up Eddie Guest,
He’s got a grand collection
That really is the best.
Rabindranath Tagore
By PK ROY
To me, Rabindranath Tagore is the
best for his literary work, which has
touched my heart and I’m influenced; it’s not
judging other renowned poets’ poetry;
He was a Bengali polymath who
worked as a poet, writer, composer,
playwright, philosopher, a great social
reformer, an exceptional painter.
He reshaped Bengali literature
and music as well as Indian art
with the contextual modernism in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
His poems and more than 2, 000 songs
are virtually untranslatable,
which has achieved a considerable
popularity among all classes.
In 1901, Tagore founded an
experimental school in rural West
Bengal at Shantiniketan(what means
in Sanskrit language the Abode of Peace).
There he sought to blend best of Indian
and Western traditions; he settled at
the school which became Visva-Bharati
University (1921).
Years of sadness arose from the deaths of
his wife and two children are reflected
in his poetry, which was introduced
to West in Gitanjali (1912).
He was hailed by W.B. Yeats and André Gide;
His poetry won him the Nobel Prize
in 1913; He was awarded
knighthood in 1915 but refused.
In the late 1920s, when he was
in his 60s, Tagore took up painting and
produced works that won him a place among
India’s contemporary artists.
The best part of his literary work
is touching the peoples’ hearts through poems;
Tagore captured all types of emotions
in poetry, other creative work.
To me, Tagore’s poetic works are the
best; I’ve learned much poetic techniques and
will ever remain grateful to his such
poetic talent and ways to express.
~X~
Hillaire Belloc
by sealife
Poets like the best wine, oh so many.
The perceptive way they penned,
intuitive and even psychic
poems that make more sense today,
then they did even a century ago..
Joseph Hillaire Pierre Ren’e Belloc,
was an English poet and historian,
who came from France as a child.
He went back there to serve in the army,
just because he thought he should.
Warned when he ran for Parliament,
to keep silent about being a Catholic,
he pulled out his Rosary at the meeting,
and said he went to Mass every day.
He got elected not once but twice.
I wish I had known him, I love his work.
He died the year I was born, 1953.
Tarantella is haunting and brilliant.
He opens the past, and his virtues,
for me, strengthen the future,
Thanks to Shel Silverstein
by Caren Krutsinger
I learned what I needed to know about poetry from Shel Silverstein.
Poetry does not have to be high society or serious.
It can be humorous, common, funny and fun!
I love Silverstein’s books and his cartoons, he is my inspiration.
Weirdly enough, I am a cartoonist, a painter, and an artist.
In addition to being a poet, Shel was a singer and songwriter.
I have often wondered if I could write songs; I believe I could.
Sometimes Silverstein’s punchlines are so funny I howl.
I do not always strive for humor, but I am delighted when it happens.
Thanks to his unique voice, I felt that poetry was “obtainable”.
I knew that it was “manageable, and doable.”
His poetry gave me hope, and inspires me still.
Dear Aleme
by RoseWinter ,UK
Thank you so much
For teaching me
A multitude of
Poetic forms
With best wishes,
Rose
Alme Gammo
by Dolly Bhaskaran,UK
I started writing poetry without
any one teaching me how to write
a good poem
I learned it by myself with trial and error
Same time I learned reading of may poets
written work and learned a bit
Thank you Aleme Gammo for teaching me to
write various form of poetry by entering his contests
and learned many forms of poetry, styles and gained
courage to enter in different forms of poetry
I gained a variety of poetic skills from him and I am grateful
to him for inspiring me to write and gain the skills
It’s fun to have fun but you’ve have to know how
by Moshe to Dr Seuss
The doctor came to your house
just as quiet as a little mouse.
He hid there beneath your bed
His rhymes still echo in your head.
His books might be long ago lost;
you might be able to quote Robert Frost
and reference Larry Ferlinghetti
as you eat your al dente spaghetti.
You might have volumes of E.A Poe,
just to let all the people know;
and be studious in the works of Dylan;
with Tommy and Robert you’re chillin’.
But you know that deep inside your mind
It’s Dr Seuss that taught you how to rhyme.
Charlie ( thanks )
by GrantG
I found a rawness one day
listening to his voice and content,
which reached deeply inside
cutting into my core
Futhermore he lit up my mind
giving me much needed inspiration
allowing me to write about society
and the madnesss I’d known
Deep below
all that craziness and grime,
my child, youth and young man
cheekily smiles
Gangs,
addiction, homelessness and bile,
who would have ever thought
that’d give me style
Bukowski my man
you allowed me to jive,
to get right down to the grit of life
my ass had rhymed
The Bard of Stafford upon Avon
by Dhupam Veera Nageswara Rao to Shakespeare
Is there such a person who can claim that
He mastered the artistry of using apt words
Put-upon by the bard of Stafford upon Avon
If one is there to claim so, he be an inane dolt
Thirty-seven plays, hundred sixty-six sonnets
Can you think it possible for any human being
Nay, he is not human but God sent special gift
To humanity to portray of all human traits
In an emphatic, empirical amid human weaknesses
Not one, not a Dozen but countless plots and roles
He depicted the nature in many acts and scenes
I am not yet fortunate to read all of his works
But half a dozen of them to be precise and frank
Self-target is to learn as many as I can in my life time
It took years to read and understand those few works
To enrich my knowledge and comprehend the themes
My most favourite of his plays being “The Hamlet”
You will also undergo the dilemma in your life
Oftentimes with the conundrum “To be or not to be”
How treason of a greedy man leaves a pious prince
In utter shambles and to lose everything in the end
In the Merchant of Venice, you see wily Shylock
Even now find may, who demand their pound of flesh
How you can ignore the good old adage in the play
That “All that glitters is not gold” and message in it
In Macbeth, how a greedy ally of yours indulges in
Treason to keep usurp the power as a despotic maniac
The same characters utterly in the end “Life is tale told
“By an idiot full of sound and fury signifying Nothing”
Thus, testifying that the greed ends in only downfall
In “Othello” you observe how a semblance of doubt
Forces a committed beau to slay his lovely belle
“Ettu Brute”, in Julius Caesar, an ultimate allegory
The revolt of a group of eggheads though for a purpose
You will find the real brutes now a days not Brutus
In every corner of life, willing to slay for self-gains
“Comedy of errors” is an evergreen inspiration
To many comic film makers and artists of the stage
Did it happen anywhere in this world in past or present
That four hundred films are made on the works of him
who yet, continues to inspire the genres of the future
That is the reason that my favourite poet of all
Is “William Shakespeare”, the Bard of Avon, above all
© Feb 8, Dhupam Veera Nageswara Rao
‘Inscape and Instress’
by John G to Gerard Manley Hopkins
The poet who influenced me a lot,
Was Gerard Manley Hopkins with his skill,
His subjugated will, and his ability to fill.
Like the inscape of a hawk on the wing,
His poems have a dynamic flow that sings!
Sprung rhythm is somewhat like bebop jazz.
It has it’s own inner raz-a-matazz.
It bumps along with stress and instress.
Like a well-pllanned harmonious mess.
The mess just happens from within,
It overcomes sin and helps you rise.
It transforms like the Holy Word explored.
The Holy Word digested and taken in.
Inscape and instress and the thingness,
It will thrill and never leave one bored.
My Last Will and Testament: A Sonnet
by Winston Churchmouse to Shakespeare
I know I may present as dated:
Not to mention antiquated.
But scant reflection this makes clear,
My muse and mentor be Shakespeare.
His words are ever in my head.
His upshot can’t be oversaid.
His scope, his style, his humanity,
Are stuff of stark insanity.
Other scribes I do admit
Have written to the heart of it
They’ve drunk the milk of paradise
And wafted us as rapture flies.
But all must heed this verdict grim…
Their plight to write in light of him.
In Awe Give Praise
by Sarah to Shel Silverstein
Who’s written company has lended an invitation
Has drawn the jealous difference of talent
Expression unequivocally his own
Authentic shades of magical proportions
A man who naturally is just renowned
Silly and innocent views
Shel Silverstein is the light
Not relatable expression but undeniable comfort
A reminder of the ownership of interpretation
If I am not capable of shaping this talent
Not in just what is true
Recount, control the power a story can invite
I wish to have collaborated with him
Afforded the art mastered
Captivating stories decorating debauchery
That is hidden in
accepted
fashion
A man who allowed nonsense
He is an undeniable influence
Kavanagh’s Way
by Michael mc dermott
Patrick Kavanagh was our local man
who made great poetry for everyone
his home near the village of Inniskeen
provided myths for boy Patrick to glean
two fine book tittles set him on his way
The Green Fool and Tarry Flynn a play
in Joyce’s Dublin he found little fame
but cultural circles recognised his name
Kavanagh poetry now read far and wide
surely he Ireland’s greatest poetic pride
I learned from his work what is of worth
when writing give weak words wide birth
Ogden Nash
by Ima Ryma
When I was a youngster in school,
Study of poetry began
To really bore me as a rule,
And soon left my attention span.
Poems were too hard and too long
For this kid, and seemed more kind of
Cruel punishment that was so wrong,
‘Specially the stuff about love.
But then a poet came to light,
Ogden Nash, and he wrote about
Funny kid stuff that sounded right,
My favorite poet, no doubt.
Thanks to Ogden Nash teaching me
Thar’s humor in them poetry.
John Keats:: The Lessons in Poetry
by Drjain
John Keats, you taught me well
With every word, a story to tell
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” you sing
Of beauty and love that takes wing
From “Endymion,” I learned to dream
Of love that is pure, and pure it seems
And in “To Autumn,” I feel the change
As nature’s cycle goes through its range
In “Bright Star,” I see the love so true
That burns within, a fire anew
And in “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”
I find beauty that will forever burn
The words you wrote, so rich and bold
A wealth of stories, never to grow old
With every verse, a new door to explore
A world of wonder, forevermore
Your poetry has taught me to see
The beauty in life, and to set it free
To weave a tapestry, of colors and light
And to capture each moment, shining bright
So thank you, John, for showing the way
For teaching me how to create and play
Your words have touched my soul, so deep
And in my poetry, your spirit I’ll keep.
Emily Dickinson
by Shanon Norman
She taught me more than words or poetry -
She taught me that women could express freely.
She taught me the beauty of simplicity
and the difference between alone and lonely.
Robert Frost and Free flowing Me
Simple yet deep and meaningful, inspired not just me but also a book, words so powerful in a poetic masterpiece, opened a new realm that is poetry.
Dark hidden emotions needed to be let free
Tired of self-harm something had to be
Years of inner torture and no good outlet, until I heard those words from that famous poet:
“Nothing gold can stay”.
Hooked now, my words can’t stop flowing
Inspired by him and a whirlwind of emotions
Made for an easy task; pen to paper to exploit thoughts, but now better than ever.
Now with an outlet and a safe community,
I have a place to go to set my feelings free.
Tribute 2 MLKjr
by Samuel C James Jr
Dr. Martin Luther King
although poetry wasn’t his thing
his words allowed freedom ring
resound upon angels wings
Dynamic speaker
prolific in deeds
served humanity
for justice did plead
From none I’ve learn more
from his dedicated fight
a drum major for true
in hopes to turn the ship right
And although he’s not found
on the this AllPoetry site
please indulge me to listen
for what is say this night
This month of Black History
to pay tribute these
Maya Angelou and James Baldwin
be a few I choose
Yet I must make mention
of the Greatest Ali
who could float like a butterfly
and then sting like a bee
I’m aware you said one
as I’ve named a few
the most specular in mind
was the first one I used
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Posted by International Poetry News letter
February 21,2023
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