The Mystic (C J Dennis Poems)
An "Ode to the Moon" did he indite With his two-and-half soul-power.('Twas the child of a starlit summer night, Begot ...
Poems about cryptic (21 Poems)
Almost Anything (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Superlatively sonorousLike a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails;Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberantLike the quobbing of a foetus five ...
Interrogation (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Love, will you look with meUpon the phosphor-litten labor of the worm-Time's minister, who toils for his appointed term,And has ...
A Nikko Shrine (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Under the sway, in old Japan, Of silent cryptic trees, There is a shrine the worldliest Would near ...
The Shrine Of Shrines (Cale Young Rice Poems)
There is in Egypt by the ancient NileA temple of imperishable stone,Stupendous, columned, hieroglyphed, and knownTo all the world as ...
The Meaning (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Alas, that we are deaf and blindTo meanings all about us hid!What secrets lurk the woods amid?What prophecies are on ...
After Flogging Jesus (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
"after flogging Jesus", he was sent to be crucified; but what a cryptic, banal inconsequential piece of prose What unspeakable ...
No Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
No Time To think, to plan, to dream, to be ready Reading slower as time goes on Words blur in ...
Unprepared (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Panic fills my chest Angry that I didn't find time That my life got in the way Ever present, tantalizing, ...
Key economy (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Words today are how'd you say, in sad retreat, or obsolete? They slide around conducting sound, deferent to moving ground ...
A Time to Weep (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I suppose you could call me heartless as a dull anvil clanking in a sodden barn, the damp wood too ...
The impact of a dollar upon the heart (Stephen Crane Poem)
The impact of a dollar upon the heart Smiles warm red light, Sweeping from the hearth rosily upon the white ...
Wallace Stevens On His Way To Work (David Wagoner Poems)
He would leave early and walk slowly As if balancing books On the way to school, already expecting To be ...
SORRY I MISSED YOU (Barry Tebb Poems)
(or 'Huddersfield the Second Poetry Capital of England Re-visited') What was it Janice Simmons said to me as James lay ...
Demon (Anne Sexton Poems)
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes...-- D. H. Lawrence ...
Manhole Covers (Karl Shapiro Poems)
The beauty of manhole covers--what of that? Like medals struck by a great savage khan, Like Mayan calendar stones, unliftable, ...
A Tall Man (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth. The head of this man is a gaunt strong head. ...
Pencils (Carl Sandburg Poems)
PENCILS telling where the wind comes from open a story. Pencils telling where the wind goes end a story. These ...
An Island (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
The Master (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
A flying word from here and there Had sown the name at which we sneered, To be reviled and then ...
Summer Sonata (Desi Di Nardo Poems)
The sun sizes it up A fast grey machine Lopes like the wolf Stashed among trees Insouciant as the wind ...