Another page (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Another page, another door another opportunity to explore Another door, another key Another test about you and me Will we ...
Poems about struggle (51 Poems)
Unprepared (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Panic fills my chest Angry that I didn't find time That my life got in the way Ever present, tantalizing, ...
Charlie (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
King of the floor At 4 years old The host of new arrivals The smile through the pain. Personal barbers ...
Peter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Calloused hands hearty handshake Bright eyes and easy smile consumed his face Brothers we are Mi Amigo, and confidante, through ...
Struggle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A bit of war poetry read by featured poets Brought it back to me that night on the floor Each ...
Post-Graduate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What do we learn from the roads not taken, of choices made without full exploration? "What if", and "where would ...
Fuzzy Swears (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Some have heard of "fuzzy logic", that "powerful problem-solving methodology (blah, blah, blah) ." (no, not just what Shanequa or ...
Yearning to Bloom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Eager, poised and ready unfurling in the hot July sun wanting, needing to join her sisters and brothers in the ...
Embrace Noir (Nick Flynn Poem)
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. ...
Storm Fear (Robert Frost Poem)
WHEN the wind works against us in the dark, And pelts with snow The lowest chamber window on the east, ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
You’ve seen Balloons set — Haven’t You? (Emily Dickinson Poems)
You've seen Balloons set -- Haven't You? So stately they ascend -- It is as Swans -- discarded You, For ...
I thought that nature was enough (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame ...
A Planted Life — diversified (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Planted Life -- diversified With Gold and Silver Pain To prove the presence of the Ore In Particles -- ...
I many times thought Peace had come (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I many times thought Peace had come When Peace was far away -- As Wrecked Men -- deem they sight ...
The Hunt (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
Consciousness Of Our Return (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
On Love (Bliss Carman Poem)
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
Say not the Struggle Naught availeth (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
SAY not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And ...
Yet Do I Marvel (Countee Cullen Poem)
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried ...
The Shroud of Color (Countee Cullen Poem)
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
Nostalgia (Billy Collins Poem)
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
An Invitation (Thomas Blackburn Poem)
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
Five O’Clock Shadow (John Betjeman Poems)
This is the time of day when we in the Mens's ward Think "one more surge of the pain and ...
A Subaltern’s Love Song (John Betjeman Poems)
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We ...
Power of Love (Anne Bronte Poem)
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
From ‘The Testament of Beauty’ (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
I Sit By The Window (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
I said fate plays a game without a score, and who needs fish if you've got caviar? The triumph of ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
The Missionary (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...