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Here are links to some of my current favorite poems by real poets (not amateurs like me):

Ellen Bass

-Pray for Peace

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Richard Brautigan

-It's Raining in Love

Raymond Carver 

-Late Fragment

Lucille Clifton

-Wishes for Sons

Paul Violi

-Appeal to the Grammarians

Bruce Dethlefsen

-Crosseyed (video)

Gregory Djanikian

-Immigrant Picnic

Diana Goetsch

-Bowie

Tony Hoagland

-Hard Rain

Jack Gilbert

-Michiko Dead

Russell Edson

-The Toy Maker

Miller Williams

-Sitting Alone at Sunrise (video)

Tony Gloeggler

-Anyway

Marie Howe

-Part of Eve's Discussion

Neil Hilborn

-OCD (video)

Gerald Locklin

-The Iceberg Theory (video)

Linda Pastan

-To a Daughter Leaving Home

Gary Soto

-Oranges

Marie Sheppard Williams

-Everybody

Susan Mitchell

-The Dead

Louis Jenkins

-The Big Bang

Brenda Shaughnessy

-A Poet's Poem

Thomas Alan Orr

-Soybeans

William Stafford

-First Grade

Hal Sirowitz

-Eyes Are Everywhere

-No More Birthdays (& other poems)

James Wright

-The Flying Eagles of Troop 62

Charles Webb

-The Death of Santa Claus

Terence Winch

-Social Security

Robert Wrigley

-Do You Love Me?

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