In a Country (Larry Levis Poems)
My love and I are inventing a country, which wecan already see taking shape, as if wheels werepassing through yellow ...
Poems about inventing (21 Poems)
Viewing Cac-Co Cavern (Ho Xuan Huong Poems)
Heaven and earth brought forth this rocky massits face cut by a deep crevassecrack's dark mouth shagged with mosspines rocking ...
The Wet Grass Of Morning (Hartley Burr Alexander Poems)
In the spring when I bathe my feet in the wet grass of morning,I see many smiles upon the meadows. ...
The Voyage (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
? Maxime du CampIFor the child, in love with globe, and stamps,the universe equals his vast appetite.Ah! How great the ...
The Martyred Democrat (C J Dennis Poems)
(Begin breezily):In Lady Lusher's drawing-room, where float the strains of ...
Entering A Life (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Once I was in love & I think I loved that girlmuch more than she loved me. Would I heal?Would ...
The Postman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Three cheers for the postman, the jolly old postman,With letters for Smith, Brown and Kelly, A load in his sack, ...
I wouldn’t want to die (Je voudrais pas crever) (Boris Vian Poems)
Before having knownThe black mexican dogsWho sleep without dreamingThe butt-naked monkeysGobbling up tropicsThe silver spiders inWebs riddled with bubblesI wouldn't ...
The Convalescent Gripster (Eugene Field Poems)
The gods let slip that fiendish grip Upon me last week Sunday--No fiercer storm than racked my form ...
How Distant (Philip Larkin Poem)
How distant, the departure of young men Down valleys, or watching The green shore past the salt-white cordage Rising and ...
Nearly A Valediction (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that ...
Cold Morning (Eamon Grennan Poem)
Through an accidental crack in the curtain I can see the eight o'clock light change from charcoal to a faint ...
Midnight (Louise Gluck Poem)
Speak to me, aching heart: what Ridiculous errand are you inventing for yourself Weeping in the dark garage With your ...
A Silence (Amy Clampitt Poem)
past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority beyond the woven ...
ABOUT WHAT RUNS AWAY (Luis Benitez Poem)
To think that Spinoza died polishing eyeglasses. That Blake got tired at a printer's shop waiting for that day's conversation ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Saul (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
To The One Upstairs (Charles Simic Poems)
Boss of all bosses of the universe. Mr. know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller, And whatever else you're good at. Go ahead, shuffle ...
This Life (Grace Paley Poems)
My friend tells me a man in my house jumped off the roof the roof is the eighth floor of ...
First Day at School (Roger McGough Poems)
A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, ...