The Amber Whale: A Harpooneer’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
Poems about killers (15 Poems)
The Poet’s Dead (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
The Poet's dead! - a slave to honor -He fell, by rumor slandered,Lead in his breast and thirsting for revenge,Hanging ...
1977: Poem For Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (June Jordan Poems)
You used to say, "June?Honey when you come down here yousupposed to stay with me. Whereelse?"Meanin homeagainst the beer the ...
Hurry Up Please It’s Time (Anne Sexton Poems)
What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling ...
Thirty-Three Bullets (Ahmed Arif Poems)
I. This is the Mengene mountain When dawn creeps up at the lake Van This is the child of ...
The Trail’s End (Bonnie Parker Poems)
You've read the story of Jesse Jamesof how he lived and died.If you're still in need;of something to read,here's the ...
They Made Sails (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
Eugowra Rocks (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
It's all about bold Frank Gardiner with the devil in his eye He said "We've work before us lads we've ...
Whales Weep Not! (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most ...
The Criminal V (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
Anthem (Leonard Cohen Poem)
The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has ...
Hurry Up Please It’s Time (Anne Sexton Poems)
What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling ...
Ossawatomie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I DON'T know how he came, shambling, dark, and strong. He stood in the city and told men: My people ...
To All and Everything (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...
The End (Sharon Olds Poems)
We decided to have the abortion, became killers together. The period that came changed nothing. They were dead, that young ...