“A poem begins with a lump in the throat” --frost

so i had a friend stay with me this weekend, a fellow lover of poetry, and we got to sharing some poems we really liked, and i, having not read poetry in a bit, remembered what it felt like to get goosebumps from a line of a poem that was to me especially true, especially real, especially hitting a note that had not yet been hit, and so well...

i therefore decided to dub this week poetry week. i was going to do my top ten poems, but then i decided to not be so organized. all the poems will be ones i really like, though, therefore they will all be really awesome poems.

let us begin.