What is the best poem in the world?

Question: What is the best poem in the world!?
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I am in the garden

but I feel like I'm drifting at sea!.

I see branches above me!.

All the leaves have come off in the storm!.

It is the branches that are drifting in the breeze!.

But they are not branches

they are bones

the bones of a dragon!.

The dragon speaks to me

in a dialect I've never heard but comprehend!.

'I

will

miss

you!.'

My head is light and my eyes sting!.

They fall closed, and I fall back!.

I remember that there is a dragon on my back in the shape of a question mark!.!.

It has broken out of a red egg!.

But, at the moment, it is buried in blood!.

I realise that it is night time

and my eyes

are open!.!.!.

My head is lurched back so that I'm staring at the sky!.

Everything is sticky

dried tears has fused my skin to the stone!.

BCHobbesWww@QuestionHome@Com

desiderata - by max ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence!.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons!. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story!. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit!.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself!. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans!. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time!.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery!. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism!. Be yourself!. Especially, do not feign affection!. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass!.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth!. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune!. But do not distress yourself with imaginings!. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness!.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself!. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here!. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should!.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul!.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world!.

Be cheerful!. Strive to be happy!.

Max Ehrmann c!.1920

'if' by rudyard kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)Www@QuestionHome@Com

i have a few i really like

a candle may melt and its flame may die , but the friendship you have given me will burn in my heart forever

good friends are like balloons , if you let them go you cant get them back , that's why friends hang on so tight

god in heaven, god above please protect the friend i love, sent with a smile and sealed with a kiss, i love my friend who's reading this <3 :)

they may not be the best in the world by far
but i love them
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I have heard it said and understand all the best poems are the ones forgotten!.!. so given the truth of that it must mean the stuff we adore and look up to as the ultimate poetic achievements are all mediocre writings from under achievers like Shakespeare and John Donne!.

but
I really like ( and I heard it here, described as a classic short poem) "Jesus wept"

and I like Oscar Wilde's " Ballad of Reading Gaol"Www@QuestionHome@Com

I really like "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe *1

and "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning because its got an interesting history behind it!.!.!.which you can read about on the website *2

also, by William Shakespeare a more!.!.!. humorous read:
"SONNET #130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" *3

and a nice romantic one is:
"Sonnet 116 Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments" *3Www@QuestionHome@Com

The one i Just read and comented on, at yahoo answers called!.

(Dissapointed In Myself For Being You)
By Invictus at yahoo questions!.

view my answers to see his inspirational poem!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

william shakespeare poemWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sorley Maclean ' Hallaig ' !
He is my great great uncle !!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

m' illumino d' immenso!.!.!.
ciaoWww@QuestionHome@Com

Do not stand at my grave and weep!.Www@QuestionHome@Com