Days of 1986 (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised ...
Poems about corrupt (31 Poems)
The Bees and the Flies (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"The Mother Hive"-- Actions and Reactions A Farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page The story of ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Persecuted like Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What do we fear that keeps us in our seats when we should be persecuted like Jesus our lives in ...
The Poison of Their Anger – part 1 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The poison of their anger revenge served cold gutting all social services far into the bone Cutting the advocates the ...
Buying Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The chill of their lies buying time to regroup to fend off the people to abduct them in the night ...
Garbed in My Sin (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe the best way to understand God's calling remembering the sacrifice the calling to our savior Each of us corrupt ...
life on earth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
far less than scraps from the table the wealth of the earth but a whisper of the promise not even ...
Personally Responsible (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God's judgment on the whole people on each one individually personally responsible following false prophets corrupt leaders bowing to man-made ...
When Why Has No Answer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not in capriciousness the randomness of fate but when why has no answer how we all can truly relate Wondering ...
Our Hearts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not the food what enters none of these unclean all of these worthy Our hearts, our tongues the words of ...
Gathering Shadows (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The words of the master changing the Seder words of the night before of his suffering and dying all too ...
A Fitting Sky (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fitting sky this morning the story continuing not bright and sunny like yesterday The sky dark and foreboding clouds ...
Evil Stalked the Night (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The tempter, the betrayer the powerful in their houses bringing the prophecy to fulfillment evil stalked the night The Messiah, ...
Death Stalked the Night (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Death, almost palpable stalking the unholy night the savior in a corrupt trail the reaper waiting with his scythe The ...
No courage to speak (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
None of the elders, the priests, the scribes the Sanhedrin that night None with the courage to speak to stop ...
A corrupt court (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the mockery of a trial a corrupt court convening in the dark of the night in secret and in ...
When we are most certain we are right (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What level of destruction, cruelty we are able to perpetrate when we find ourselves righteous standing in judgment of others ...
Condemning God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Denying his divinity the truth of his nature the righteous of the people condemning God to death Standing in judgment ...
Fealty to our wealth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
An unholy altar, an idol of rust craven gods, that will turn to dust worshipping our possessions fealty to our ...
Apple-Pie and Cheese (Eugene Field Poem)
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
A Fever (John Donne Poem)
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone, That thee I shall not ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
The Dungeon (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Song (Act V, scene i) And this place our forefathers made for man ...
From ‘The Testament of Beauty’ (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
I Love The Naked Ages Long Ago (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
I love the naked ages long ago When statues were gilded by Apollo, When men and women of agility Could ...
Correspondences (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
Nature is a temple where the living pillars Let go sometimes a blurred speech- A Forest of symbols passes through ...
Florida (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
113. A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (Robert Burns Poems)
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...