On the Mystery of the Incarnation (Denise Levertov Poem)
It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in ...
It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in ...
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
The Shame of Going Back And the reason of your failure isn't anybody's fault -- When you haven't got a ...
I always wanted to give birth Do that incredible natural thing That women do-I nearly broke down When I heard ...
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes. This gray rock, standing tall On ...
The poet fears failure & so she says "Hold on pen-- what if the critics hate me?" & with that ...
In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in ...
Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliot welcoming me to the land of dream Sofas couches fog in England Tea ...
Moses, on the mountain, petitioning God, once more to spare the people, the ones He saved who are turning away ...
Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and Shang constellations, one of ...
Whoever disenchants A single Human soul By failure of irreverence Is guilty of the whole. As guileless as a Bird ...
I'm reading fellow poets' blogs today, a sustaining source of entertainment; I admire their style without exciting comment or resorting ...
Wind of the dead men's feet, Blow down the empty street Of this old city by the sea With news ...
Love is no more. It died as the mind dies: the pure desire Relinquishing the blissful form it wore, The ...
When I think of the many people who privately despise children, I can't say I'm completely shocked, having been one. ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
One failure on Top of another (A. R. Ammons)
On the long shore, lit by the moon To show them properly alone, Two lovers suddenly embraced So that their ...
On March 1, 1958, four deserters from the French Army of North Africa, August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jack Dauville, & ...
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