A Single Sin Sacrifice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We all sin, we all fall short, we all need grace grace boundless and unending, grace to redeem to bring ...
Poems about century (40 Poems)
Black and White (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Eisenstaedt and Goebbels stark colors, black and white evil captured still life on the page, staring back at all of ...
Glass Dump (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the history of the city long forgotten, buried the remains in the ground glass, metal, wood, bone crockery, leather, ...
Meeting Grounds (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Reverend Brown told me some of the stories the history of these hallowed grounds Where generations pitched their tents around ...
God Needs Antonio (George Eliot Poem)
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
A Historical Breakfast (Russell Edson Poem)
A man is bringing a cup of coffee to his face, tilting it to his mouth. It's historical, he thinks. ...
Buddhist Barbie (Denise Duhamel Poem)
In the 5th century B.C. an Indian philosopher Gautama teaches "All is emptiness" and "There is no self." In the ...
Allegory Of The Cave (Stephen Dunn Poem)
He climbed toward the blinding light and when his eyes adjusted he looked down and could see his fellow prisoners ...
Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
Visitation (Mark Doty Poem)
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb What merit have the Tune No Breakfast if it guaranty The Rose ...
Funny — to be a Century (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Funny -- to be a Century -- And see the People -- going by -- I -- should die of ...
A precious — mouldering pleasure — ’tis (Emily Dickinson Poems)
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
Meeting by Accident, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Meeting by Accident, We hovered by design -- As often as a Century An error so divine Is ratified by ...
Where I have lost, I softer tread (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Where I have lost, I softer tread -- I sow sweet flower from garden bed -- I pause above that ...
What does it take? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
It is a secular world (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Our Indonesian friends again exhibit strains of gross hypocrisy, it's a virus that abounds in the islands of a thousand ...
Does the name toll a bell? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
The Ships of Saint John (Bliss Carman Poem)
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
The Best Cigarette (Billy Collins Poem)
There are many that I miss having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one ...
Vienna, December 1999 (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Five Ways To Kill A Man (Edwin Brock Poem)
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
For The Twentieth Century (Frank Bidart Poem)
Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand technologies of ecstasy boundlessness, the world that at a drop of water ...
The Harbour (Eavan Boland Poem)
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind ...
Five Ways To Kill A Man (Andre Breton Poem)
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Part 8 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...