Things you really need
1.Food
2.Water
3.Shelter
4.Internet
5.Phone
6.Books/music/movies
7.Medicine
8.Clothes
my books,
and my poetry to protect me.
Poetry that you have written, or poetry that you like?
So many people confuse poetry with rhyming. Nobody knows poets anymore. Even I have abandoned them for quick easy entertainment. I remember learning Blake, Frost, Coleridge, Yeats. My mom's favorite poet was Wallace Stevens. This has been abandoned. Such a shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A @ 1.56
I like the more contemporary poets, confessional poetry,
don't much go for Coleridge or Yeats.
Here is one of my favorites;
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
BY JAMES WRIGHT
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.