Prose Poem (Larry Levis Poems)
Toad, hog, assassin, mirror. Some of its favorite words, which are breath. Or handwriting: the long tail of the 'y' ...
Poems about omaha (17 Poems)
Bindlestiff (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
Oh, the lives of men, lives of men, In pattern-molds be run; But there's you, and me, and Bindlestiff- And ...
TO THE DRIVING CLOUD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas; Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud, whose name ...
1926 (Weldon Kees Poem)
The porchlight coming on again, Early November, the dead leaves Raked in piles, the wicker swing Creaking. Across the lots ...
Dead March (Weldon Kees Poem)
Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore, Imperfect kindling even in this ...
Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
Mélange Adultère de Tout (T. S. Eliot Poem)
EN Amerique, professeur; En Angleterre, journaliste; C'est à grands pas et en sueur Que vous suivrez à peine ma piste. ...
Legend of the Albino Farm (Erin Belieu Poem)
Omaha, Nebraska They do not sleep nights but stand between rows of glowing corn and cabbages grown on acres past ...
The House Of Dust: Introduction (Conrad Aiken Poem)
THE HOUSE OF DUST A Symphony BY CONRAD AIKEN To Jessie NOTE . . . Parts of this poem have ...
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves (Charles Bukowski Poems)
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, ...
Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window (Carl Sandburg Poems)
INTO the blue river hills The red sun runners go And the long sand changes And to-day is a goner ...
Work Gangs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BOX cars run by a mile long. And I wonder what they say to each other When they stop a ...
A Tall Man (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth. The head of this man is a gaunt strong head. ...
Limited (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation. Hurtling across the prairie into ...
Omaha (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RED barns and red heifers spot the green grass circles around Omaha-the farmers haul tanks of cream and wagon loads ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...