Typically I select poems that I enjoy or at least think my students will appreciate (or will be able to come to appreciate). Some I will share with the whole class, others with a few students for whom I think a poem is more relevant.
Below is a small selection of poems I've shared and a few that I simply love.
Still I Rise (Angelou)
Questionnaire (Berry)
in Just- (Cummings)
Balances (Giovanni)
Shooting Baskets at Dusk (McFee)
A Renewal (Merrill)
Why We Tell Stories (Mueller)
Fear (Simic)
Eating Poetry (Strand)
This Is Just to Say (Williams)