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The following is a list of the top 100 most famous poems of all time in the English language. There's always room for debate when creating a "top 100" list, and let's face it, fame is a pretty fickle thing. It changes over time.
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Poem for Haruko. retrieve an afternoon... A note from the editor: “I love poems of dedication, and the evocation of an off-stage character, as they say in the theater; in this case, Jordan’s lover, Haruko. June Jordan also wrote an entire book of love poems about Haruko and put Haruko’s name in the title of the book.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
