The Violent Space (Or When Your Sister Sleeps Around For Money) (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust The thick notes between green apple breasts. Then the shadow of the devil ...
Poems about grab (23 Poems)
As You Leave Me (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Shiny record albums scattered over the living room floor, reflecting light from the lamp, sharp reflections that hurt my eyes ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Let America Be America Again (Langston Hughes Poem)
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
Letter to S.S. from Mametz Wood (Robert Graves Poem)
I never dreamed we'd meet that day In our old haunts down Fricourt way, Plotting such marvellous journeys there For ...
Please Master (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Please master can I touch your cheeck please master can I kneel at your feet please master can I loosen ...
America (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
More Salt (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Thinking about dinner sitting around the table how often we grab, ask for the salt how much stronger how more ...
One-Ply on the End Cap (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh it was too easy, in my rush after the traffic to the bank, the banter of the customers marking ...
A Dangerous Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
A Harsh Mirror (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For those who grab the spotlight sit in righteous judgment Casting the first stone against their fellow. A harsh mirror, ...
Hoot (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Charged electricity In the room Caffeine in the coffee and my pacing feet. My name first on the list Bold ...
Night Alone (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Bright noisy streets Unattached and watching The jazz, the sass, The Street, Bourbon Late April Thick with tourists Easy marks ...
Trapped by Flames (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
House ablaze, hissing, dying Crimson anguish My daughter upstairs, alone Helpless Firetruck - red, loud, racing, screech HELP ME! MY ...
Free Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Campsite set Late afternoon Late June Grab a friend Get the canoe Head up the brook The tributary Portage through ...
Masks of Necessity (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Grown child, where is your laughter? Do you laugh, smile, cheer in the song of the wind, the leap of ...
Directions (Billy Collins Poem)
You know the brick path in the back of the house, the one you see from the kitchen window, the ...
A Pastoral (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Just as the sun was setting Back of the Western hills Grandfather stood by the window Eating the last of ...
Manuelzinho (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
Daffy Duck In Hollywood (John Ashbery Poem)
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
The Duties of an Aide-de-camp (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Oh, some folk think vice-royalty is festive and hilarious, The duties of an A.D.C. are manifold and various, So listen, ...
THE TERRESTRIAL (Vlanes Poems)
The air heaving like a wounded fish, breathing through its purplish sandy gills, letting in the salty gale, fluttering its ...
The Return (Philip Levine Poems)
All afternoon my father drove the country roads between Detroit and Lansing. What he was looking for I never learned, ...