Los Angeles, 1954 (David St. John Poem)
It was in the old days, When she used to hang out at a place Called Club Zombie, A black ...
Poems about anybody (31 Poems)
Next Day (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, ...
The Bridge of Lodi. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
adventure (Rg Gregory Poem)
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
from crossing the line (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
The Bibliomaniac’s Bride (Eugene Field Poems)
The women-folk are like to books,-- Most pleasing to the eye, Whereon if anybody looks He feels disposed to buy. ...
Paul’s Wife (Robert Frost Poems)
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
The Fear (Robert Frost Poem)
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
Vomit (Russell Edson Poem)
The house grows sick in its dining room and begins to vomit. Father cries, the dining room is vomiting. No ...
Those fair — fictitious People (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Those fair -- fictitious People -- The Women -- plucked away From our familiar Lifetime -- The Men of Ivory ...
The Murmur of a Bee (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Murmur of a Bee A Witchcraft -- yieldeth me -- If any ask me why -- 'Twere easier to ...
If anybody’s friend be dead (Emily Dickinson Poems)
If anybody's friend be dead It's sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive -- At such and ...
I lost a World — the other day! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I lost a World -- the other day! Has Anybody found? You'll know it by the Row of Stars Around ...
Flowers — Well — if anybody (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Flowers -- Well -- if anybody Can the ecstasy define -- Half a transport -- half a trouble -- With ...
So bashful when I spied her! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
So bashful when I spied her! So pretty -- so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find -- ...
On such a night, or such a night, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its ...
A Wounded Deer — leaps highest (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Wounded Deer -- leaps highest -- I've heard the Hunter tell -- 'Tis but the Ecstasy of death -- ...
At The Other End Of The Telescope (George Bradley Poem)
the people are very small and shrink, dwarves on the way to netsuke hell bound for a flea circus in ...
Outbid (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
When Cupid held an auction sale, I hastened to his mart, For I had heard that he would sell The ...
Testament (Wendell Berry Poem)
1. Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath Grows large and free in air, don't call it death -- ...
Coffee (Richard Brautigan Poem)
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Dream Song 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need (John Berryman Poem)
Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need, thoughtless I go out. Dawn. Have I my cig's, my flaskie O, O ...
My Last Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
That's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, ...
Shoes (Charles Bukowski Poem)
when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when ...
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town (Charles Bukowski Poem)
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
Bluebird (Charles Bukowski Poem)
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay ...
The Genius Of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski Poem)
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given ...
44. The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN first I came to Stewart Kyle, My mind it was na steady; Where'er I gaed, where'er I rade, A ...
Hot (Charles Bukowski Poems)
she was hot, she was so hot I didn't want anybody else to have her, and if I didn't get ...