Vers De Société (Philip Larkin Poem)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
Poems about funny (31 Poems)
The Height of the Ridiculous (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I WROTE some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood, And thought, as usual, men would say They ...
adventure (Rg Gregory Poem)
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
Sharing Your Blessing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the crowded waiting room a question about our faith talking about her ministry and the blessings I have known ...
Blind to His Teaching (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They couldn't see him the fulfillment, of the words of Isaiah the truth ringing odd sounding funny in their ears ...
She Went When He Called (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Funny to watch her, a burst of energy moving from her chair, from our chatting getting up, going in, to ...
I Could Picture His Face (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A quick phone call, a recognition of his voice instantly I saw his face, the look of his countenance his ...
Dismissed (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Such a happy terms, used for unexpected results It is good to be negative, to be dismissed The tests were ...
Suds for the aphids (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A foamy cure for a garden crisis a rose bush, individual buds encased in a moving mass a living second ...
New Hampshire (Robert Frost Poem)
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Jonah and the Grampus (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you the story of Jonah, A really remarkable tale; A peaceful and humdrum existence he had Until one ...
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The Song Of The Strange Ascetic (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
If I had been a Heathen, I'd have praised the purple vine, My slaves should dig the vineyards, And I ...
There Is No God, the Wicked Sayeth (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
"There is no God," the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us ...
Tower Of Song (Leonard Cohen Poem)
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play ...
The Goops (Gelett Burgess Poem)
The meanest trick I ever knew Was one I know you never do. I saw a Goop once try to ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Portrait of a Boy (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had ...
Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
It’s Raining In Love (Richard Brautigan Poems)
I don't know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot. It ...
Dream Song 128: A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Friday (John Berryman Poem)
A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Fridayâ?" so help me Jesusâ?"then made funny too the other, further one. ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07: Porcelain (Conrad Aiken Poem)
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
42. A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter (Robert Burns Poems)
THOU'S 1 welcome, wean; mishanter fa' me, If thoughts o' thee, or yet thy mamie, Shall ever daunton me or ...
Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You . . . (Charles Bukowski Poems)
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by ...
The Blues (William Matthews Poems)
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
The Sinking Fund Cried (Thomas Moore Poems)
["Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fund - these eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were ...
Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, ...
Sestina (David Lehman Poems)
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...
February 23 (David Lehman Poems)
Light rain is falling in Central Park but not on Upper Fifth Avenue or Central Park West where sun and ...