True Believer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It is you who believes in me who wants the best for me who gives me the strength For you ...
Poems about happens (31 Poems)
Chance Greeting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Will I know it When it happens Will my heart be open Ready to risk Ready to leave behind Again? ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
Curse of the Cat Woman (Edward Field Poem)
It sometimes happens that the woman you meet and fall in love with is of that strange Transylvanian people with ...
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations (Robert Frost Poem)
You'll wait a long, long time for anything much To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud And the ...
Snow (Robert Frost Poem)
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
The Fear (Robert Frost Poem)
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
The Reason Why The Closet-Man Is Never Sad (Russell Edson Poem)
This is the house of the closet-man. There are no rooms, just hallways and closets. Things happen in rooms. He ...
The Song Of The Jellicles (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright-- Jellicles come to ...
Sky Harbor (Norman Dubie Poem)
The flock of pigeons rises over the roof, and just beyond them, the shimmering asphalt fields gather their dull colored ...
At The Smithville Methodist Church (Stephen Dunn Poem)
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...
Named (Stephen Dunn Poem)
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
Accountability (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
FOLKS ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits; Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made ...
If all the griefs I am to have (Emily Dickinson Poem)
If all the griefs I am to have Would only come today, I am so happy I believe They'd laugh ...
Trojans (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
Our efforts are those of the unfortunate; our efforts are like those of the Trojans. Somewhat we succeed; somewhat we ...
Fit the Second ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey’s Version Of “Three Blind Mice” (Billy Collins Poems)
And I start wondering how they came to be blind. If it was congenital, they could be brothers and sister, ...
Lions (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
Not enough study has been done on old lions dying. Unable to feed themselves, without pride, teeth or claws, their ...
Lord Lundy (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
Dream Song 48: He yelled at me in Greek (John Berryman Poem)
He yelled at me in Greek, my God!â?"It's not his language and I'm no good atâ?"his Aramaic, wasâ?"I am a ...
The History Of One Tough Motherfucker (Charles Bukowski Poem)
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and terrorized a white cross-eyed tailless cat I took him ...
The Shampoo (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the ...
Breaking and Entering (Ralph Angel Poem)
Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating ...
From The Short Story Shadow-Children (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Little shadows, little shadows Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (Margaret Atwood Poem)
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
You Take My Hand (Margaret Atwood Poem)
You take my hand and I'm suddenly in a bad movie, it goes on and on and why am I ...
The Cry Of The Children (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...