In Bertram’s Garden (Donald Justice Poems)
Jane looks down at her organdy skirt As if it somehow were the thing disgraced, For being there, on the ...
Poems about catches (31 Poems)
Shine, Perishing Republic (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
Letters From A Man In Solitary (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
1 I carved your name on my watchband with my fingernail. Where I am, you know, I don't have a ...
Keeping Going (Seamus Heaney Poem)
The piper coming from far away is you With a whitewash brush for a sporran Wobbling round you, a kitchen ...
The Farm Woman’s Winter (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I If seasons all were summers, And leaves would never fall, And hopping casement-comers Were foodless not at all, And ...
happiness (Rg Gregory Poem)
for kelly happiness is the stuff of birthdays and the coming of sweet things when they are not expected happiness ...
wimborne minster (Rg Gregory Poem)
though there's not much faith left and very little snow this scene of wimborne minster still makes its christmas show ...
The Tenor Man (Adrian Green Poem)
Pottering around the stage, a hyperactive ancient in his own backyard - independent of the band it seems. Disrhythmic shuffling ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
The Way Things Work (Jorie Graham Poem)
is by admitting or opening away. This is the simplest form of current: Blue moving through blue; blue through purple; ...
Finding Treasures (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A smile coming on their face a stranger remembering a time, a place something that catches their eye a special ...
Beauty (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The question on "what is beauty" my mind immediately calling up the quote, "beauty is in the eye of the ...
Reach Out Your Hands (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like Christ, reaching to Peter, reach out your hands when doubts, winds of struggle, adversity catches our focus saps the ...
Lifted Up (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Peter, sinking, captured by trouble, his doubt pulling him under falling below the waters, the waves, sinking, darkness Lifted up, ...
After the Presents (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On the drive East on the way to Gramma's house presents unwrapped toys discovered Dressed in their Christmas dresses new ...
Closeup (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
My eye catches, notices A small detail A flower, berry, bug Flake, fragment Texture or color drawn to it Hold ...
Frozen Image (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A walk in the woods Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway Cold of winter Catch ...
Frozen Image – v4 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway In the inner quiet Cold of winter Emptiness, sadness, ...
A Field of Scat (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Late January, in the cold clear wood Boots crunch through layers of snow and ice Breath catches in beard and ...
Frozen Image – version 3 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway In the inner quiet Cold of winter Emptiness, sadness, ...
Frozen Image – version 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A walk in the woods Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway Cold of winter Catch ...
The Melting (Russell Edson Poem)
An old woman likes to melt her husband. She puts him in a melting device, and he pours out the ...
Dilton Marsh Halt (John Betjeman Poem)
Was it worth keeping the Halt open, We thought as we looked at the sky Red through the spread of ...
Jabed Meeker, Humorist (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Twain? Oh, yes, I've heard Mark Twain Heard him down to Pleasant Plain; Funny? Yes, I guess so. Folks Seemed ...
That One (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
Oh days devoted to the useless burden of putting out of mind the biography of a minor poet of the ...
Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and ...
Into the Dusk-Charged Air (John Ashbery Poem)
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
60. Epistle on J. Lapraik (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE briers an' woodbines budding green, An' paitricks scraichin loud at e'en, An' morning poussie whiddin seen, Inspire my muse, ...
328. Poem on Pastoral Poetry (Robert Burns Poems)
HAIL, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang ...
Blind Man’s Buff (William Blake Poems)
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...