The Perch (Galway Kinnell Poem)
There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where ...
Poems about alert (31 Poems)
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
My Aviary (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
Denis (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit Caps occasion with an intellectual fit. Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled ...
A Poet at Twenty (Donald Hall Poem)
Images leap with him from branch to branch. His eyes brighten, his head cocks, he pauses under a green bough, ...
adventure (Rg Gregory Poem)
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
hawthorns and the like (Rg Gregory Poem)
as the landscape falls away the hawthorn in its gnarly fashion is content to stand alone berries (the very tint ...
crematorium-return (Rg Gregory Poem)
(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...
THE PROSPEROUS VOYAGE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THE mist is fast clearing. And radiant is heaven, Whilst AEolus loosens Our anguish-fraught bond. The zephyrs are sighing, Alert ...
Not to sleep (Robert Graves Poem)
Not to sleep all the night long, for pure joy, Counting no sheep and careless of chimes Welcoming the dawn ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
Wonderfully Alive (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The cats pressed whiskers alert the leaves outside the window wonderfully alive moving in concert as if stitched together the ...
None of Us Strangers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We have the wrong perspective failing to be alert not seeing our neighbors our brothers and sisters that hurt None ...
The Same Spirit – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wanting to serve as had his master seeking the same spirit the anointing of God Asking directly what he desired ...
Obedient Faithful Servant (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Stay firm, alert ready when we are called to bear witness obedient, faithful servant doing the master's will carrying on ...
To Be Like Mary (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A prayer, a wish, a choice to be like Mary, to choose turn from this world, to the will of ...
A Dangerous Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
The Embrace (Mark Doty Poem)
You weren't well or really ill yet either; just a little tired, your handsomeness tinged by grief or anticipation, which ...
Adolescence II (Rita Dove Poem)
Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting. Sweat prickles behind my knees, the baby-breasts are alert. Venetian ...
Her gentle hands (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
She came at night, her gentle hands defused the ticking bomb that was his brain, she soothed the pain and ...
Echoes in an empty room (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
Elegy: Walking the Line (Edgar Bowers Poem)
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
The Wood (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I (John Berryman Poem)
As a kid I believed in democracy: I 'saw no alternative'â?"teaching at The Big Place I ah put it in ...
Dream Song 62: That dark brown rabbit, lightness in his ears (John Berryman Poem)
That dark brown rabbit, lightness in his ears & underneath, gladdened our afternoon munching a crab-'. That rabbit was a ...
We Ain’t Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain (Charles Bukowski Poems)
call it the greenhouse effect or whatever but it just doesn't rain like it used to. I particularly remember the ...