King of the River (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
If the water were clear enough, if the water were still, but the water is not clear, the water is ...
Poems about ego (24 Poems)
Jerome (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon. Der heilige Hieronymus--his lion is at the zoo-- Listens, listens. All ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
(i) the inkman (Rg Gregory Poem)
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
A Clarion Invitation to Hope (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our words, as a people, repeated, enunciated, emphasized for friend, for foe alike the preambles of our sacred texts, the ...
Holding onto my Dicta (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Gray words on the page, drawing me in To your spell May I use you, argue with you Make my ...
Idiots (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Feeble knats Buzzing in my classroom Inane questions Blank looks On doe-like faces Frozen in time By my knowledge Unable ...
I Grant You Ample Leave (George Eliot Poem)
"I grant you ample leave To use the hoary formula 'I am' Naming the emptiness where thought is not; But ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Loud Music (Stephen Dobyns Poem)
My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers throbbing, jam-packing the ...
In soothing, sweetened words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
No, she said, I never knew it was your first. It doesn't matter anyway. I always had an inkling that ...
Free from intrusion (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You awaken this time with a welcoming smile, an experience sublime, not a dream - the boner from Hell has ...
A few kind words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A few kind words, what can be bought with that? In essence just a clique of tidy prose, a verb, ...
Georgic on Memory (Erin Belieu Poem)
Make your daily monument the Ego, use a masochist's epistemology of shame and dog-eared certainty that others less exacting might ...
The Night Dances (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A smile fell in the grass. Irretrievable! And how will your night dances Lose themselves. In mathematics? Such pure leaps ...
Tale Of A Tub (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The photographic chamber of the eye records bare painted walls, while an electric light lays the chromium nerves of plumbing ...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934 (Anais Nin Poems)
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
The New Hieroglyphics (Les Murray Poems)
In the World language, sometimes called Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola under it is a symbol for ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Hortus (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Quisnam adeo, mortale genus, praecordia versat: Heu Palmae, Laurique furor, vel simplicis Herbae! Arbor ut indomitos ornet vix una labores; ...
Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Nempe sic innumero succrescunt agmine libri, Saepia vix toto ut jam natet una mari. Fortius assidui surgunt a vulnere praeli: ...
Not Even My Pride Shall Suffer Much (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Not even my pride shall suffer much; Not even my pride at all, maybe, If this ill-timed, intemperate clutch Be ...
With Tenure (David Lehman Poems)
If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he'd be teaching at a small college in the Pacific Northwest ...