The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus – possibly the most famous sonnet and certainly one of the most prominent with its bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty, featured here in its public domain image

I live in a poetic world.

And I have my Top 10 Poetry, by poem and poet.

But wait – there’s more! Not surprisingly given how many poems and poets there are out there, there’s enough further entries for my usual twenty special mentions I prefer for each top ten.

And I still prefer the playful definition of poetry by TV Tropes as I did for my Top Ten Poetry – pretty words.

No, really. That’s what poetry is. Sometimes it rhymes, sometimes there are more line breaks than usual. All you really need to make a poem, though, is to put it together so it sounds good, or at least sounds the way you want it to sound.