Poetry Page

-R. M. Rilke- (1875-1926)

"You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you,
as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in
your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked
rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because
you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing
it, live along some distant day into the answer..."

-Rainer Maria Rilke- (in Letters to a Young Poet, #4)

Below are a few poems I have authored.

Graduation 
The Clutch
Cadaver Hand
 Crossing 3rd Street Lightly
 Duty
On Reading Poetry
Lost

Here are some of my favorite poems by various poets.

Subvocalization by Jeff Worley
August Moon by Robert Penn Warren
Oh Make Me a Mask by Dylan Thomas
Wild Rose by Wendel Berry
For the Anniversary of My Death by W. S. Merwin
Mourning Pablo Neruda by Robert Bly
Money by Charlie Smith
The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
Mansion by A. R. Ammons
Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The God of Inattention by Averill Curdy

Interesting Links

The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Page
The Academy of American Poets
For Poetry.Com
Poetry Magazine
Common Errors in English
Composition Style
The King's English