It's a year since the last entry on the Desert Island Poems thread and someone said it would be nice to run it again. So here goes.

The idea is to share 8 poems you would choose to be stranded on a desert island with. But you can't choose two from any one poet. And can't choose any of those selected last year, which are listed below in poet alphabetical order.

Kissing - Fleur Adcock
Columbine Massacre Section of Killing Time - Simon Armitage
Dover Beach - Arnold
Cigarettes – John Ash
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape - John Ashbery
As I walked out one evening – W H Auden
September 1st 1939 - W H Auden
The Cry of the Children – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Via - Caroline Bergvall
Pershore Station - Betjeman
Slough - Betjeman
The Burning of the Leaves - Binyon
London - William Blake
Briggflats - Basil Bunting
For A' That and A' That - Robbie Burns
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Byron
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Timothy Winters - Charles Causley
Candles - Cavafy
The Nuns Priest's Tale - Chaucer
Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Another Reason I don't keep a Gun in the House – Billy Collins
Beasley Street - John Cooper-Clarke
Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) - Keith Douglas
Every Grain of Sand - Bob Dylan
The Lion and Albert – Marriott Edgar
The Waste Land - T.S.Eliot
The Parrot/The Hencote – Bill Froggat
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
A Nightmare – W S Gilbert
Howl - Allen Ginsberg
Full Moon – Robert Graves
Miracle - Thomas Gunn
The Darkling Thrush – Hardy
At Castle Boterel - Hardy
Bookends - Tony Harrison
Digging – Seamus Heaney
Margaritae Sorori - Henley
Prayer - George Herbert
The Ploughman – Adrian Holst
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Thoughtfox – Ted Hughes
Ode to a Nightingale - Keats
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be - Keats
Recessional - Kipling
Gunga Din – Kipling
Snarleyow - Kipling
Going, Going - Philip Larkin
No Road - Philip Larkin
Aubade - Philip Larkin
This be the Verse - Philip Larkin
Piano - D H Lawrence
Self Pity - D H Lawrence
Scouring Out the Porridge Pot - J A Lindon
Psalm of Life – Longfellow
The Village Blacksmith - Longfellow
God Save The Queen - John Lydon
Bagpipe Music - Louis Macniece
Prayer Before Birth- Louis Macniece
Snow - Louis Macniece
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford - Derek Mahon
Anniversaries - Andrew Motion
Vitai Lampada – Sir Henry Newbolt
The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
The Day Lady Died - Frank O'Hara
Psalm - Goerge Oppen
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfrid Owen
Dulce et decorum est – Wilfrid Owen
Experience – Dorothy Parker
Comment - Dorothy Parker
Infant land - Paulpoet
But for Lust – Ruth Pitter
Lady Lazarus - Plath
Mews Flat Mona – William Plomer
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
Diary of a Working Man – Elaine Randell
Naming of Parts - Henry Reed
A Part Song – Denise Riley
The Seven Year Old Poet – Arthur Rimbaud
Dolor - Theodore Roethke
Villanelle for our Time - F R Scott
Sonnet No. 8 - Shakespeare
Love's Philosophy – Shelley
The Mask of Anarchy - Shelley
Ozymandias – Shelley
From a Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lady of Shallott – Tennyson
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - Dylan Thomas
Morning Glory (aka The Glory) - Edward Thomas
The Owl – Edward Thomas
Roads – Edward Thomas
The Collier - Vernon Watkins
Song of Myself (from Leaves of Grass)- Walt Whitman
Upon Westminster Bridge – Wordsworth
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen – W B Yeats
The Second Coming - W B Yeats
Idleness - Andrew Young

in no particular order:

Invade My privacy - Fran Landesman
All The Splattered Children - Patrik Fitzgerald
Evidently Chicken Town - John Cooper Clarke
Snipers - Roger McGough
Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen
Little Gidding - T.S.Eliot
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
The Forge - Seamus Heaney

a lot of my personal favourites were already chosen in the previous list

Prayer for the Union Dead, Robert Lowell
The Collar Bone of a Hare, WB Yeats
Manuelzhino, Elizabeth Bishop
Little Blood, Ted Hughes
Smell, William Carlos Williams
The Star Splitter, Robert Frost
Journey of the Magi, TS Eliot
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning
Walter Llywarch, RS Thomas.

Others I might piece together, given time, and a lot of good poems already bagged.

Better put some in myself

The Moose - Elizabeth Bishop
Kneeling - R.S.Thomas
Thou Art Indeed Just - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ode to Autumn - Keats
Sonnet no. 116 - Shakespeare
Ithaca - Cavafy
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Coal - Chris Co

There are some wonderful works in last years list.

As it is a 'Desert Island' I would take a couple for pure entertainment value.

I Travelled Among Unknown Men - William Wordsworth
The Day My Pad Went Mad - John Cooper-Clarke
The Rolling English Road - G. K. Chesterton
Fifty Shades of Grey (A Husband's point of view) - Pam Ayres
Tell England - Elizabeth Dunstan-Crarey
Purple Pinkie 'Thanks for Life'- Richard Digance
For the Fallen - Laurence Binyon
Poets - Mark Haddon

To share... is a good thing.
C'mon then, what and who inspires YOU?

It can be refreshing to look up and read some of the choices made by others.

Oh wow, this will take some time to narrow it down but it will definitely include some ee cummings.
It hurts my fingers to write that without capitals :)

The first three poems I can remember reading are these:

Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot

The rhythms and sounds made quite a big impact on me as a child/teenager. My gateway poems!

An updated list. This would make one heck of an anthology

Kissing - Fleur Adcock
Columbine Massacre Section of Killing Time - Simon Armitage
Dover Beach - Arnold
Cigarettes – John Ash
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape - John Ashbery
As I walked out one evening – W H Auden
September 1st 1939 - W H Auden
Fifty Shades of Grey (A Husband's point of view) - Pam Ayres
Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc
The Cry of the Children – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Via - Caroline Bergvall
Pershore Station - Betjeman
Slough - Betjeman
The Burning of the Leaves - Binyon
For the Fallen - Binyon
Manuelzhino, Elizabeth Bishop
The Moose - Elizabeth Bishop
London - William Blake
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning
Briggflats - Basil Bunting
For A' That and A' That - Robbie Burns
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Byron
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Timothy Winters - Charles Causley
Candles - Cavafy
Ithaca - Cavafy
The Nuns Priest's Tale - Chaucer
The Rolling English Road - G. K. Chesterton
Coal - Chris Co
Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Another Reason I don't keep a Gun in the House – Billy Collins
Beasley Street - John Cooper-Clarke
Evidently Chicken Town - John Cooper Clarke
The Day My Pad Went Mad - John Cooper-Clarke
Purple Pinkie 'Thanks for Life'- Richard Digance
Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) - Keith Douglas
Tell England - Elizabeth Dunstan-Crarey
Every Grain of Sand - Bob Dylan
The Lion and Albert – Marriott Edgar
The Waste Land - T.S.Eliot
Little Gidding - T.S.Eliot
Journey of the Magi, TS Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot
All The Splattered Children - Patrik Fitzgerald
The Parrot/The Hencote – Bill Froggat
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
The Star Splitter, Robert Frost
A Nightmare – W S Gilbert
Howl - Allen Ginsberg
Full Moon – Robert Graves
Miracle - Thomas Gunn
Poets - Mark Haddon
The Darkling Thrush – Hardy
At Castle Boterel - Hardy
Bookends - Tony Harrison
Digging – Seamus Heaney
The Forge - Seamus Heaney
Margaritae Sorori - Henley
Prayer - George Herbert
The Ploughman – Adrian Holst
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thou Art Indeed Just - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Thoughtfox – Ted Hughes
Little Blood, Ted Hughes
Ode to a Nightingale - Keats
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be - Keats
Ode to Autumn - Keats
Recessional - Kipling
Gunga Din – Kipling
Snarleyow - Kipling
Invade My privacy - Fran Landesman
Going, Going - Philip Larkin
No Road - Philip Larkin
Aubade - Philip Larkin
This be the Verse - Philip Larkin
Piano - D H Lawrence
Self Pity - D H Lawrence
Scouring Out the Porridge Pot - J A Lindon
Psalm of Life – Longfellow
The Village Blacksmith - Longfellow
Prayer for the Union Dead, Robert Lowell
God Save The Queen - John Lydon
Bagpipe Music - Louis Macniece
Prayer Before Birth- Louis Macniece
Snow - Louis Macniece
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford - Derek Mahon
Snipers - Roger McGough
Anniversaries - Andrew Motion
Vitai Lampada – Sir Henry Newbolt
The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
The Day Lady Died - Frank O'Hara
Psalm - Goerge Oppen
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfrid Owen
Dulce et decorum est – Wilfrid Owen
Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen
Experience – Dorothy Parker
Comment - Dorothy Parker
Infant land - Paulpoet
But for Lust – Ruth Pitter
Lady Lazarus - Plath
Mews Flat Mona – William Plomer
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
Diary of a Working Man – Elaine Randell
Naming of Parts - Henry Reed
A Part Song – Denise Riley
The Seven Year Old Poet – Arthur Rimbaud
Dolor - Theodore Roethke
Villanelle for our Time - F R Scott
Sonnet No. 8 - Shakespeare
Sonnet no. 116 - Shakespeare
Love's Philosophy – Shelley
The Mask of Anarchy - Shelley
Ozymandias – Shelley
From a Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lady of Shallott – Tennyson
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - Dylan Thomas
Morning Glory (aka The Glory) - Edward Thomas
The Owl – Edward Thomas
Roads – Edward Thomas
Walter Llywarch, RS Thomas
Kneeling - R.S.Thomas
The Collier - Vernon Watkins
Song of Myself (from Leaves of Grass)- Walt Whitman
Smell, William Carlos Williams
Upon Westminster Bridge – Wordsworth
I Travelled Among Unknown Men - Wordsworth
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen – W B Yeats
The Second Coming - W B Yeats
The Collar Bone of a Hare, WB Yeats
Idleness - Andrew Young

An entertaining and challenging concept.
Now - for some thought about "who" I would like
for literary companions on some deserted knoll
when I am already deprived of so many worthy
choices.

Right - here we go: an "all-sorts" list of poems that speak of love, love of one's country, friendship, and things beyond our ken - in no particular order.

Unconquerable - W.E. Henley (ideal for anyone stuck on a desert island!)
Sonnet X1V - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...(love making life bearable).
To A Poet A Thousand Year's Hence - J.E. Flecker (something to leave behind)
A Vision - H. Vaughan ("I saw Eternity the other night...")
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard - T. Gray (It has it all!).
Heraclitus - W. Cory (friendship revered)
Character Of A Happy Life - Sir. H. Wotton
Down By The Mewstone (one of my own poems - remembering family, troubled times and home).

That's my "8" for Desert Island Poems.

Here's 8 of my favourites but not a definitive list by any means;

Sea fever; John Masefield
Not waving, but Drowning Stevie Smith
Poem on his birthday Dylan Thomas
Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger
When I am old Jenny Joseph
We’ll go no more a roving Lord Byron
El Alamein John Jarmain