My favorite Poet is Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish woman who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996. This is the web site of the person who has translated many of her poems in English; her website has a few of the translated poems.

Powerful stuff. There are several books of her poems (translated) available online and from your favorite bookstore.

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From time to time I have felt the urge to work on small poems myself. Here a sample...

 -- Naming Feelings

 -- I Am No Poet

-- Aries

-- Fire Burns

-- World in his image

-- Beware of Falling Coconuts

-- Does Hawai‘i have Christmas?

-- Nightflights

-- How Strange to Think

-- Cycles

-- Seesaw

-- Dreams

-- Haiku

-- And I

-- Little Raius Skittering

-- Waiting Weather

-- Wind Power

-- Planet

-- Thinking

-- Wet Weather

-- Clouds