Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Hard Rock/ was/ "known not to take no shit From nobody," and he had the scars to prove it: Split ...
Poems about anymore (31 Poems)
Gets Up Off His Thrown (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
When my God gets up off His thrown, He'll hear my voice and I won't be alone. All the pain ...
Almost Gone (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
I see the signs and wonders, Appearing over there; Trials and tribulations, Happening everywhere. Yah it won't be much longer, ...
What You Mean To Me (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
I remember when I met you, At a table all alone; I thought you were so pretty, Shining like a ...
Worshipping (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Living, walking, before God in his presence, ever praising God, in word, in deed, in truth; in the sanctuary, in ...
Within the Heart (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Within the heart, the essence of worship Lord, in that core that kernel, it is you, your sacrifice your grace, ...
The Fruits of Our Labor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We prayed together, to the creator, the source of all we have, offering "the fruit of our labor"; but the ...
History of the Victors, No More (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It has been said that history isn't written by who was in the right; but by who was left, after ...
Embrace Noir (Nick Flynn Poem)
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. ...
In a Disused Graveyard (Robert Frost Poem)
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But ...
Erasing Amyloo (Russell Edson Poem)
A father with a huge eraser erases his daughter. When he finishes there's only a red smudge on the wall. ...
On Being Born The Same Exact Day Of The Same Exact Year As Boy George (Denise Duhamel Poem)
We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb. I know it now as I read ...
Monotony (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
One monotonous day is followed by another monotonous, identical day. The same things will happen, they will happen again -- ...
Story Of Isaac (Leonard Cohen Poem)
The door it opened slowly, my father he came in, I was nine years old. And he stood so tall ...
The Future (Leonard Cohen Poem)
Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
A Man (Charles Bukowski Poem)
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His dinner dishes were undone, ...
Man in a Window (Ralph Angel Poem)
I don't know man trust is a precious thing a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get ...
The Box (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, Around about the wondrous days of yore, They came across a ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Solitude (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
So many stones have been thrown at me, That I'm not frightened of them anymore, And the pit has become ...
The House (Charles Bukowski Poems)
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to ...
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
The Orange Bears (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
The Orange bears with soft friendly eyes Who played with me when I was ten, Christ, before I'd left home ...
The Prisoners Of The Little Box (Vasko Popa Poems)
Open little box We kiss your bottom and cover Keyhole and key The whole world lies crumpted in you It ...
Autumn Day (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Four Translations Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Lay your shadow on the sundials and let loose the ...
1954 (Sharon Olds Poems)
Then dirt scared me, because of the dirt he had put on her face. And her training bra scared me-the ...
Resolutions (John Matthew Poems)
Resolutions I have made, Kept, I have none, Why do I have to make, Resolutions anymore? I pause through endless ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Statue of a Couple (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Your hand, my wonder, is now icy cold. The purest light of the celestial dome has burned me through. And ...