HOWL by Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water fiats 'doating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz....

And so on... It's way to long to post. "America" is another really great one he wrote.
GreenGenes Reviewed by GreenGenes on . Favourite Poem I was just wondering what everyone's favourite poem is. I don't actually like very much poetry but there are a few outstanding poems which do come to mind. So post your favourite poem and maybe a verse from it? I like "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his Rating: 5