Poems about tattooed (21 Poems)
The End Of The Century (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There are moments when, as missions, God reveals to us strange visions; When, within their separate stations, We may see the Centuries, Like revolving constellations Shaping out Earth’s destinies. I have gazed in Time’s abysses, Where no smallest thing Earth misses That was hers once. ‘Mid her … Continue reading
The Profligate Sons (Henrikas Nagys Poems)
And late one evening we came to the city’s great gate.Guards shined the bloody flames of lanterns in our faces.We listened quietly, with pounding hearts, to the painfulCurses; tattered, soaked with the autumn rains… Into the city of our birth, … Continue reading
His Shield (Marianne Moore Poems)
The pin-swin or spine-swine(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out, echidna and echinoderm in distressed-pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny pig or porcupine,the rhino with horned snout- everything is battle-dressed. Pig-fur won’t do, I’ll wrapmyself in salamander-skin like Presbyter John. A lizard … Continue reading
Vision (Harry Crosby Poems)
I exchange eyes with the Mad Queenthe mirror crashes against my faceand bursts into a thousand sunsall over the city flags crackle and bangfog horns scream in the harborthe wind hurricanes through the windowand I begin to dance the dance … Continue reading
Metempsychosis (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
SUDDENLY to become John Benbow, walking down William StreetWith a tin trunk and a five-pound note, looking for a place to eat,And a peajacket the colour of a shark’s behindThat a Jew might buy in the morning. . . .To … Continue reading
Assumption (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I A mile of moonlight and the whispering wood:A mile of shadow and the odorous lane:One large, white star above the solitude,Like one sweet wish: and, laughter after pain,Wild-roses wistful in a web of rain. II No star, no rose, … Continue reading
The Pirates (DuBose Heyward Poems)
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, And saw the gallant youngest of the cities Lift from the jealous many-fingered tide. Flanked by the … Continue reading
Proletaria (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
THE SUNNY rounds of Earth contain An obverse to its Day, Our fertile Vagrancy’s domain, Wan Proletaria. From pole to pole of Poverty We stumble through the years, With hazy-lanterned Memory And Hope that never nears. … Continue reading
The Sailor (Billy Bennett Poems)
They say a man’s known by the company he keepsI think that a lie and a scandal‘Cos I’ve mixed with company I didn’t expectAt the seaside, in bed with a candle. You can’t judge a man by the corns on … Continue reading
Mandalay 1 (Billy Bennett Poems)
By an old whitewashed PagodaLooking Eastwards to the WestThere’s a Burma girl, from BermondseySits in a sparrow’s nest. She’s as pretty as a pictureThough she’s lost one eye, they sayThrough the Black Hole of CalcuttaPerhaps the keyhole of Bombay. Look … Continue reading