The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Poems about cement (31 Poems)
Ghost (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
There is a jaggle of masonry here, on a small hill Above the gray-mouthed Pacific, cottages and a thick-walled tower, ...
Another Awkward Stage Of Convalescence (Bob Hicok Poem)
Drunk, I kissed the moon where it stretched on the floor. I'd removed happiness from a green bottle, both sipped ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The liniment of work (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
My back, my muscles loosening, becoming limber applying the liniment of work the rhythmic motion, the shovel biting in the ...
Making Memories (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We got up a little later than normal, sleeping in on a cloudy Saturday A knock at the door, help ...
I Forgive You (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I want the best for you, only the best that you would have an easy time in life knowing the ...
A Precarious Perch (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A late dandelion plant too late for flowers, growing pushing through the tiny bit of soil held in place between ...
The Word in the Flesh (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Words, words that can hurt words of wisdom, of healing, of guidance, to live our lives but The Word, now ...
Meticulous (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Meticulous was the word That came to mom and me Simultaneously to describe Dad and how he approached almost Everything ...
Crater Face (Denise Duhamel Poem)
is what we called her. The story was that her father had thrown Drano at her which was probably true, ...
Dickeyville Grotto (Mark Doty Poem)
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all the many designs out of his head. Father Wilerus, transplanted Alsatian, built ...
Mack The Knife (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear ...
Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill (Lord Byron Poem)
And thou wert sad-yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near; Methought ...
Limits (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, There must be one (which, I am not sure) That ...
Andrea del Sarto (Robert Browning Poem)
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
Eat Your Heart Out (Charles Bukowski Poem)
I've come by, she says, to tell you that this is it. I'm not kidding, it's over. this is it. ...
The Man-Moth (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for "mammoth." Here, above, cracks in the buldings are filled with battered moonlight. The whole shadow of ...
Filling Station (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Oh, but it is dirty! --this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with ...
Santa Fe In Winter (Deborah Ager Poem)
The city is closing for the night. Stores draw their blinds one by one, and it's dark again, save for ...
The Good Man (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
The good man. He is still enhancer, renouncer. In the time of detachment, in the time of the vivid heather ...
Two Dogs HaveI (Ogden Nash Poems)
For years we've had a little dog, Last year we acquired a big dog; He wasn't big when we got ...
Pigs (Les Murray Poems)
Us all on sore cement was we. Not warmed then with glares. Not glutting mush under that pole the lightning's ...
The Survivor (Primo Levi Poems)
Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the ...
Z213: Exit (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Page 5 A few hours more, station, deserted, a dirt road for inside the town, mud, mud, blankets outside, mouldering ...
Nyctivoe (extract) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
The Trouble with Snowmen (Roger McGough Poems)
'The trouble with snowmen,' Said my father one year 'They are no sooner made than they just disappear. I'll build ...
On The Murder Of Lieutenant Jose Del Castillo By The Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936 (Philip Levine Poems)
When the Lieutenant of the Guardia de Asalto heard the automatic go off, he turned and took the second shot ...
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...