The Alligator’s Children (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The alligator is a creatureWith not a single pleasing feature;And even when it's very small,It is not cuddlesome at all.With ...
Poems about alligator (21 Poems)
A Story (Li-Young Lee Poem)
Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can't come up with one. His five-year-old son waits ...
City That Does Not Sleep (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is asleep. The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl ...
THE QUADROON GIRL (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The Slaver in the broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon, And for the ...
A Farewell to Agassiz (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
The Alligator Bride (Donald Hall Poem)
The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small ...
Not Enough Pastel Plaid (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the shop, a bit too pretty, pristine I caught a few subtle, furtive, slightly disdainful glances supposing, deciding we ...
Textures of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Smooth glass, clear, or in the prism's spectrum Cool of polished marble in Washington's monuments smooth of a baby's skin, ...
Closer and Closer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He seemed so complacent in the hot August sun on the barrier islands not moving at all basking in the ...
Ancient Flyer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh they got the name right when they named these Ancient flyers of the sun tail like an alligator's flesh ...
Crab (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How fast can your move backward while in a crouched position with your eye in the viewfinder of a manual ...
Dr. sam (Eugene Field Poem)
TO MISS GRACE KING Down in the old French quarter, Just out of Rampart street, I wend my way At ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: Mona Gator (D. C. Berry Poem)
Our mascot lives low, a baby alligator. She's our happy-and-sad mask all at once, Mona Lisa her name. She's my ...
Florida (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity (A. R. Ammons Poem)
You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are: gosling shit (which J. Williams said something was as green ...
Longings for Home. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
Nomad Exquisite (Wallace Stevens Poems)
As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth The big-finned palm And green vine angering for life, As the immense ...
The Artist’s Duty (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog ...
The Purist (Ogden Nash Poems)
I give you now Professor Twist, A conscientious scientist, Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!" And sent him off to distant ...
Arlo Will (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Did you ever see an alligator Come up to the air from the mud, Staring blindly under the full glare ...
The Tropics in New York (Claude McKay Poems)
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit ...