Mine is Ozymandias by Shelley, who was, coincidentally, a proponent of atheism, publishing a pamphlet called 'The Necessity of Atheism' in 1811. I love the sentiment this poem conveys.
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818
I’ll suspect it not necessary to have one I like words, even like to write, but what goes for ‘poetry’ anymore does nothing for me.. If it rhymes, better, or at least cute. If not … what’s the point? Incorporate creative thoughts into substantive sentences leading to a productive end … or not ~