Readers share their favorite poems of comfort

It is abundantly clear that our readers love poetry. After the Monitor’s staff shared poems they’ve carried with them over the years, readers enthusiastically accepted the invitation to send in their own favorite published poems by recognized poets, along with what the poems have meant to them. The replies were heartwarming.

Thanks to those who wrote in. 

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My boyfriend and I, ages 5 and 6 in 1944, buried my favorite A.A. Milne book, “Now We Are Six,” in a shoebox purloined from my mother, in a hole in the iris bed. The purpose was to create a time capsule with the book and other favorite items to be dug up in 10 years! I’m 81 and still