Crushed (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Crushed Breached Bent Rent Your car Smell of fluids Spilt, spent Cold breath Hung in the air As I searched ...
Poems about chaos (51 Poems)
Selfish Mistress (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hours per credit Eat my life Sunny days indoors Reading, writing, digesting Old brain Slow reader Applying principle To facts ...
New Years (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are starting anew Tentative, cautious History between us Hope and skepticism mix Wax and wane But newness every time ...
Half Masts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
D-Day and The Fourth Bookends of a month In the life of the Nation The death of a President Reminders ...
Half Staffs (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
D-Day and The Fourth Bookends of a month In the life of the Nation The death of a President Reminders ...
Water or Dust (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Two tales of the same story of where it all began Why it is as it is Creation, the start ...
A Cathedral of Pine (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On a floor of needles and leaves I sat in a cathedral of pine Five trees encircled my prayer Limbs ...
Capturing the Sound of Rain (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Listening to the timpani the rhythm of the rain the rap, the tap, the ratta-tat-tat, the staccato of the drumming ...
To the Park (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Here they are, the giggle sisters Mischief and Mayhem (along with their older sister Chaos) on the way to play ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poem)
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
Sister’s cake (Eugene Field Poems)
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
The Hymn (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
A Vast Confusion (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
Long long I lay in the sands Sounds of trains in the surf in subways of the sea And an ...
New Hampshire (Robert Frost Poem)
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Alphonso Of Castile (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
Bacchus (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, ...
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 ...
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow (Robert Duncan Poem)
as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a made place, that ...
The Knife (Keith Douglas Poem)
Can I explain this to you? Your eyes are entrances the mouths of caves I issue from wonderful interiors upon ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
War-Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Break off! Dance no more! Danger is at the door. Music is in arms. To signal war's alarms. Hark, a ...
Elegy VIII: The Comparison (John Donne Poem)
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
It was not Death, for I stood up, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down -- It was not Night, for ...
Jigsaw Puzzles and You (Anastasia Clark Poem)
There were long hyphens in our day- When no one spoke; no one exhaled As we contemplated the broken puzzles- ...
On Love (Bliss Carman Poem)
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
To Lord Hu (Li Ching Chao Poem)
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of ...
How In All Wonder… (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
How in all wonder Columbus got over, That is a marvel to me, I protest, Cabot, and Raleigh too, that ...
The Ladder (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
The Garden of Janus (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...