Salesmanship, With Half A Dram Of Tears (Brooks Haxton Poem)
Gripping the lectern, rocking it, searching the faces for the souls, for signs of heartfelt mindfulness at work, I thought, ...
Poems about distraction (26 Poems)
Delight in Disorder (Robert Herrick Poem)
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine ...
DELIGHT IN DISORDER (Robert Herrick Poem)
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine ...
starling (Rg Gregory Poem)
a starling sat on the roof (i don't know how young) croaking in an old man's voice cross with the ...
Misdirected Frenzy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The season corrupted misdirected frenzy chasing for bargains to have this or that All of it a distraction a temptation ...
Even in a Whisper (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God calling to us even in a whisper maybe intentionally so that we would truly listen The world around even ...
Do Not Debate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As we are called to spread the good news to make disciples to the ends of the earth Mindful of ...
Cares of this Earth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
nibbling, whittling cares of this earth echoing in our ears, the buzz, buzz remanding attention the tugging on our shirttails ...
Recognizing Him (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They didn't recognize him at first their minds lost, reeling, walking homeward rudderless, lost, wondering what is to come Their ...
Acrostics (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alphabetic writing Coming alive on the page Reading the meaning in the letters Overcoming the mundane language Seeing the possibilities ...
The straw parlor (Eugene Field Poem)
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Sonnet IX: As Other Men (Michael Drayton Poem)
As other men, so I myself do muse Why in this sort I wrest invention so, And why these giddy ...
Heccar and Gaira (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
A Death – Scene (Emily Bronte Poem)
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
Love’s Last Adieu (Lord Byron Poems)
The roses of Love glad the garden of life, Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew, Till Time crops the ...
Stanzas To The Po (Lord Byron Poem)
River, that rollest by the ancient walls, Where dwells the lady of my love, when she Walks by thy brink, ...
385. Song-Auld Rob Morris (Robert Burns Poem)
THERE'S Auld Rob Morris that wons in yon glen, He's the King o' gude fellows, and wale o' auld men; ...
83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night (Robert Burns Poems)
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
Man in a Window (Ralph Angel Poem)
I don't know man trust is a precious thing a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get ...
Ode To Meaning (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Dire one and desired one, Savior, sentencer-- In an old allegory you would carry A chained alphabet of tokens: Ankh ...
Stillborn (Sylvia Plath Poems)
These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis. They grew their toes and fingers well enough, Their little foreheads ...
Modern Love XXVII: Distraction is the Panacea (George Meredith Poems)
Distraction is the panacea, Sir! I hear my oracle of Medicine say. Doctor! that same specific yesterday I tried, and ...