Notice (Steve Kowit Poem)
This evening, the sturdy Levi's I wore every day for over a year & which seemed to the end in ...
Poems about halfway (24 Poems)
How Did You Meet Your Wife? (Richard Jones Poem)
Swimming the English Channel, struggling to make it to Calais, I swam into Laura halfway across. My body oiled for ...
For an Earth-Landing (Erica Jong Poem)
the sky sinks its blue teeth into the mountains. Rising on pure will (the lurch & lift-off, the sudden swing ...
Distressed Haiku (Donald Hall Poem)
In a week or ten days the snow and ice will melt from Cemetery Road. I'm coming! Don't move! Once ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
Offering Our Daily Lives (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God's call, not a halfway thing calling for us, an offering of all offering our daily lives, ourselves on the ...
The Times Table (Robert Frost Poem)
More than halfway up the pass Was a spring with a broken drinking glass, And whether the farmer drank or ...
A Cliff Dwelling (Robert Frost Poem)
There sandy seems the golden sky And golden seems the sandy plain. No habitation meets the eye Unless in the ...
Paul’s Wife (Robert Frost Poems)
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
Snow (Robert Frost Poem)
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
Dunce Songs : 9 (Mark van Doren Poem)
Love me little, love me long, Then we neither can be wrong: You in giving, I in taking; There is ...
Charms (William Henry Davies Poem)
She walks as lightly as the fly Skates on the water in July. To hear her moving petticoat For me ...
Mountains of Delight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...
The Scratch (Raymond Carver Poem)
I woke up with a spot of blood over my eye. A scratch halfway across my forehead. But I'm sleeping ...
Wednesday (Marvin Bell Poem)
Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon. The carp lay on the bottom, resting, while dusk took ...
Dream Song 265: I don’t know one damned butterfly from another (John Berryman Poems)
I don't know one damned butterfly from another my ignorance of the stars is formidable, also of dogs & ferns ...
Dream Song 117: Disturbed, when Henry’s love returned with a hubby (John Berryman Poems)
Disturbed, when Henry's love returned with a hubby,â?" I see that, Henry, I don't put that down,â?" he thought he ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
A Prodigal (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The brown enormous odor he lived by was too close, with its breathing and thick hair, for him to judge. ...
For John Clare (John Ashbery Poem)
Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of ...
This Is A Photograph Of Me (Margaret Atwood Poem)
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks ...
Hot (Charles Bukowski Poems)
she was hot, she was so hot I didn't want anybody else to have her, and if I didn't get ...
At Pleasure Bay (Robert Pinsky Poems)
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the ...
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun (Heather McHugh Poems)
Too volatile, am I?too voluble?too much a word-person? I blame the soup:I'm a primordially stirred person. Two pronouns and a ...