Pantoum Of The Great Depression (Donald Justice Poem)
Our lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh, there were ...
Poems about audience (31 Poems)
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Our First Audience (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
More than any other down in the basement out thespian drive the words, motion our costuming the curtain over the ...
An Audience with God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not to the principal's office called to his presence out of love, assurance the prophet given an audience with God ...
Not Pleading Our Case (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Thinking about the words of his friends arguing with Job about God telling him to be humble not to come ...
The Nature of His Sin (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the moment, when he forgot the reverence of God the awe we should know when he challenged when he ...
A Leader in the Temple (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
With power, to a specific audience a lesson for the elite spoken with authority a stern lesson from a leader ...
Cupped in my hand (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alive, moving in my hands the arms stretching, turning; already warmed, by the sun above a starfish, pulled from the ...
Hi Friend (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A little audience participation, the congregation greeting each other "Hi friend", warm smiles erupting spreading from face to face a ...
From Behind (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Without an audience a quick touch of his robe the fringe of his clothes She came from behind him following ...
Returning Home (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A start of a new year, After the distance, the falling away Of the summer days, together again Singing, praying, ...
But, We Wouldn’t Do That (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
If I were to put my feet, into the sandals of the listeners, the first audience for these stories, I ...
Quartermaster (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Corner store, Hole in the wall, loaded for every need A story of Storyville and how its done down in ...
Hair Cut (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A grand presentation the three of us early one Sunday morning just before Easter A grand march with appropriate solemnity ...
Spring Night in the Imperial Chancellery (Tu Fu Poem)
Evening falls on palace walls shaded by flowering trees, with cry of birds flying past on their way to roost. ...
Constantly Risking Absurdity (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs ...
Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals (Norman Dubie Poems)
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
You taught me Waiting with Myself — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
You taught me Waiting with Myself -- Appointment strictly kept -- You taught me fortitude of Fate -- This -- ...
So the Eyes accost — and sunder (Emily Dickinson Poem)
So the Eyes accost -- and sunder In an Audience -- Stamped -- occasionally -- forever -- So may Countenance ...
Growth of Man — like Growth of Nature — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Growth of Man -- like Growth of Nature -- Gravitates within -- Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it -- Bit it ...
From Cocoon forth a Butterfly (Emily Dickinson Poem)
From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Emerged -- a Summer Afternoon -- Repairing Everywhere -- Without ...
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day That arise and set about Us -- Other Tragedy Perish in the Recitation ...
Political nonsense (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I was saddened just to hear the bitter rancour in his voice, a sour hostility aloof of commonsense, and ranks ...
Study In Orange And White (Billy Collins Poem)
I knew that James Whistler was part of the Paris scene, but I was still surprised when I found the ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: Neutrinos Explain Suck-Uppers (D. C. Berry Poem)
Neutrinos do zip but swap back and forth into each other, much like Rosypoop and Guildendoo do. For years it ...
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 118: He wondered: Do I love? all this applause (John Berryman Poem)
He wondered: Do I love? all this applause, young beauties sitting at my feet & all, and all. It tires ...
Dream Song 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do (John Berryman Poem)
Collating bones: I would have liked to do. Henry would have been hot at that. I missed his profession. As ...