Not What He Wanted (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We thought we would be nice generous, helpful, gracious hosts But that wasn't what he wanted, not what he had ...
We thought we would be nice generous, helpful, gracious hosts But that wasn't what he wanted, not what he had ...
Down by the river, we played, dreamed, explored alone and together, bikes left by the rock piles, Climbing, hiking, claiming ...
Divine retribution, for false piety setting oneself as separate, as knowing God then choosing to do evil, a person, a ...
Pining for peanuts praying for the nuts begging for them a gray squirrel by our porch pitch a peanut, watch ...
A discovery in the boxed memories forgotten history of childhood, adolescence, years gone by pearls in the oyster treasures in ...
Are we done Oh, yeah Words, lectures Blur, babble Stumble out of bed Clothes, clean or dirty Unshaven, unkempt Skim ...
Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star which an old man can see. He looks ...
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
This dirty -- little -- Heart Is freely mine. I won it with a Bun -- A Freckled shrine -- ...
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
It took several hours. There were spaces in the cookware of which no one was aware, save the poet. The ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Look at this storm, the idiot, pouring its heart out here, of all places, an industrial suburb on a Sunday, ...
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. ...
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless ...
A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and black people call across or scream or walk across defying ...
When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats There was a howl and a clamour ...
Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
When I see you, who were so wise and cool, Gazing with silly sickness on that fool You've given your ...
I Behold, my child, the Nordic man, And be as like him, as you can; His legs are long, his ...
A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece, Diminutive, but room enough . . like clay To finger eager on ...
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