Is not your own, if you've written one, your favorite? Don't you read it more often and think it best? For you, at least? Or am I the only egoist in the house?
Ha!
Wiley, I think you are almost certainly not alone.
Yes, we all tend to pefer the aroma of our own armpits to stink of others'.
But then again, I must admit to strong doubts that I could EVER write an aubade to eclipse Donne's, or indeed any of the other great examples of the genre we see here.
I think we all often write things which we invest with such undercurrents of our own private emotion that they seem to glow as brightly as truly great poems.
But the trick is to write one which pushes every reader's buttons in the same way as it pushes our own.
Still working on that one.
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