Alright, so I need to do a presentation for my English class where I must find and bring in and discuss "the best poem ever." Which leaves me with a problem - I don't know much poetry, or many poets...:p So, basically, what are some poems that you all like?

I'm still a fan of "On the Ning Nang Nong". I don't care what anybody says :p.

The best poetry I hear these days is in Divine Comedy songs.

Although there are Divine Comedy sleevenotes that say "additional lyrics by William Wordsworth" so perhaps that's not so bad.

That's a stupid topic. What kind of teacher asks you to do something like that? A infant school one?

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the cows go Bong!
And the monkeys all say BOO!

There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the teapots jibber-jabber-joo

On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang!
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!

So it's Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go Ping!
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang!
What a noisy place to belong
Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

- Spike Milligan.

Poem Hunter rates it as the 19th best poem of all time. But we know better, of course :p

Christian Morgenstern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Morgenstern) wrote some of the best poems I know.

Hmm, well I like this: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17523027/ :p

I guess you've got two options. You could take along the sort of critically acclaimed poem that gets studied in school... I studied a few but I can barely remember them, and it would be a struggle to explain why one of them is 'the best poem ever'. A better idea might be to search deviantArt for a good poem that you really like, as that way you'll have more things to say about why it's 'the best poem ever'. Chances are there's poems on anything from pineapples to the holocaust. Plus, poems are submitted into different categories based on their structure and topic. Ones using well established structures might give more class-related substance to discuss than 'open' ones.

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the cows go Bong!
What a noisy place to belong

- Spike Milligan.

Still makes more sense than anything William Blake ever wrote.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48729797/
It got pretty good reviews:

"this is so poignant and very needed. i think a lot of people obviously mistake this a lot of the time. it's very annoying. im so sick of the label 'emo'" - silentology

"Amen to this deviant" - Lyricanna

"I <3 this." - Sapphire159

Depression = Depression
Emo = Whoring your depression out on a journal for attention.

THERE'S A FOOKING DIFFERENCE.

And I agree with Paul about the greatness of Ning Nang Nong.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48729797/
It got pretty good reviews:

"this is so poignant and very needed. i think a lot of people obviously mistake this a lot of the time. it's very annoying. im so sick of the label 'emo'" - silentology

"Amen to this deviant" - Lyricanna

"I <3 this." - Sapphire159
it touched me

in naughty places

1. Stand up and walk to the front of the class

2. Read out Ning Nang Nong in your best silly poetry reading voice.

3. Say "I don't think I need to say what makes this poem great. I believe it speaks for itself."

4. Sit back down again.

5. If your teacher has any kind of a sense of humour, you'll get full marks.

Depression = Depression
Emo = Whoring your depression out on a journal for attention.

THERE'S A FOOKING DIFFERENCE.

And I agree with Paul about the greatness of Ning Nang Nong.Seconded. Both points. :)