Rondeau Redoublé (Sophie Hannah Poem)
I know the rules and hear myself agree Not to invest beyond this one night stand. I know your patter: ...
Poems about debris (27 Poems)
Death Of The Kapowsin Tavern (Richard Hugo Poem)
I can't ridge it back again from char. Not one board left. Only ash a cat explores and shattered glass ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Affirmation (Donald Hall Poem)
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, ...
thread (Rg Gregory Poem)
the sky is shattered its debris clutters the world's streets where the light came from is a question charred beyond ...
Manteau Three (Jorie Graham Poem)
In the fairy tale the sky makes of itself a coat because it needs you to put it on. How ...
The Guardian Angel Of The Little Utopia (Jorie Graham Poem)
Shall I move the flowers again? Shall I put them further to the left into the light? Win that fix ...
Released from the Snow (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The lawns returning the ornaments, the features the debris exposed as are the shoots Released from the snow in spring ...
As I woke this morning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As I woke this morning, I remembered I remembered that day, the exact moment when I saw the towers, innocence ...
After the Chaos (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
After the chaos, the blizzard of wrapping, boxes, bows toys and games and clothes being torn from their slumber the ...
Stopping a Train Wreck, in Progress (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Some days, some of them are like stopping a train wreck, already in progress, the sequence of events long since ...
No Running (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Earnest, nodding heads a trio of repentant souls agreeing with the restated rule, after cleaning the debris, the drying eyes, ...
Walking to the Courthouse (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Walking to the courthouse to make copies for a pending case no urgent brisk walk for arguments, for the challenge ...
Mother Duck (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A human interest story in the midst of the chaos the flooding of the Merrimack in the heart of the ...
How We Heard the Name (Alan Dugan Poem)
The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream, but it ...
Forsaken promises (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Nothing came to claim my muse, instead I dreamed of freedoms neatly folded in a treasure chest lying in the ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
Galatea Encore (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
As though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't talk. As though with the mercury in its sphincter, immobile, by ...
A list of some observation… (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
A list of some observation. In a corner, it's warm. A glance leaves an imprint on anything it's dwelt on. ...
Au Lecteur (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine, Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps, Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords, ...
This (Ralph Angel Poem)
Today, my love, leaves are thrashing the wind just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab forbidding ...
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today (Maya Angelou Poem)
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
At the Top of My voice (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
A Song Of Despair (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea. Deserted ...
The Clepington Catastrophe (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
The Miraculous Escape of Robert Allan, the Fireman (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1858, and on October the fourteenth day, That a fire broke out in a warehouse, ...
The Pennsylvania Disaster (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...