Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine (Etheridge Knight Poem)
And, yeah brothers while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown (who was hustling the titanic when it went ...
Poems about america (25 Poems)
Shine, Perishing Republic (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
Be Angry At The Sun (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has ...
A Woman Unconscious (Ted Hughes Poem)
Russia and America circle each other; Threats nudge an act that were without doubt A melting of the mould in ...
CIA Dope Calypso (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in ...
Crossing Nation (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
Kissass (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Kissass is the Part of Peace America will have to Kissass Mother Earth Whites have to Kissass Blacks, for Peace ...
A Supermarket In California (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with ...
The World Waiting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The earth warming the world waiting impatiently for America to lead the carbon country great consumers needing to step up ...
In Our Shadow – Twitter version (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The world, waiting for us to lead to take ownership, responsibility Wake up, lead America October 15, 2009 Blog Action ...
Words of Mettle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I paused today to read, once again, those words of mettle, of resolve, of hope, of our faith Those words, ...
Makeshift Memorials (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Instant monuments makeshift memorials of senseless tragedies all across America flowers, stuffed animals, candles, messages of instant grief sudden shock ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Dickeyville Grotto (Mark Doty Poem)
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all the many designs out of his head. Father Wilerus, transplanted Alsatian, built ...
Trust in the Unexpected — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Trust in the Unexpected -- By this -- was William Kidd Persuaded of the Buried Gold -- As One had ...
Volcanoes be in Sicily (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography -- Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at ...
I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I've known a Heaven, like a Tent -- To wrap its shining Yards -- Pluck up its stakes, and disappear ...
Snowbirds (Peter Conners Poem)
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
Democracy (Leonard Cohen Poem)
It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The Other Tiger (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend (Jane Austen Poem)
In measured verse I'll now rehearse The charms of lovely Anna: And, first, her mind is unconfined Like any vast ...
Tenth Commandment (David Lehman Poems)
The woman said yes she would go to Australia with him Unless he heard wrong and she said Argentina Where ...
Ode For Mrs. William Settle (Philip Levine Poems)
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, a woman sits at her desk to write me a letter. She holds ...
In A Light Time (Philip Levine Poems)
The alder shudders in the April winds off the moon. No one is awake and yet sunlight streams across the ...