Favorite Poets?

Many people have a favorite author, or artist, or musician. When it comes to poetry, I have something similar to that. Most of the time, as I explained in an earlier blog post(I think), I don't particularly enjoy reading poetry. It's a very mood-dependent type of activity. However, if forced, I'd go for Shel Silverstein's poems every time, simply because they're awesome. Here's an example:

"Hammock"
Grandma sent the hammock,
The good Lord sent the breeze.
I'm here to do the swingin --
Now, who's gonna move the trees?

Next to the poem, there's a drawing of a child holding one end of a hammock with the other end wrapped around a tree. Unfortunately, there aren't any other trees around for him to hang the end up on. I enjoy his poems since they're so simple to understand. Yeah it's because they were meant for kids, but who cares? No difficult meanings to divine, no obscure vocabulary hooray! And not only are all of his poems childishly amusing, but he looks like a boss. Look at him.