A Hobbesian Choice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
To put your child in harm's way to subject them to the whim of bureaucracy to let them care for ...
Poems about minor (39 Poems)
A Litmus Test (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Subjecting yourself, your child to an inadequate plan, a failure of law, of implementation, or fiat at its worst That ...
It’s a Talisman (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Statutory interpretation sparing over the meaning, the import of precision, of a bit of administrative law boiled down to the ...
He is the one who said it (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A minor epiphany at the dinner table tonight, reading the devotional the familiar story, the wondrous words, of God's love ...
Brothers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Brothers killing brothers, fighting brothers, hating each other for minor things, petty differences selfish desires, cheap greed, anger, position, power ...
A Lobster Pot (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A lobster pot tossed by the sea onto the rocks wedged in the jetty between the boulders of the breakwater ...
A Fallen Orb (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A Planet no more a dwarf, a minor player on the celestial stage the lord of the underworld relegated, lost ...
The Husband-Confessor (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed ...
The Marionettes Of Distant Masters (Russell Edson Poem)
A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to ruin a piano with his fingers . . . ...
Broadway (Mark Doty Poem)
Under Grand Central's tattered vault --maybe half a dozen electric stars still lit-- one saxophone blew, and a sheer black ...
The Missing All — prevented Me (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Missing All -- prevented Me From missing minor Things. If nothing larger than a World's Departure from a Hinge ...
Who Giants know, with lesser Men (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy -- For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor ...
That first Day, when you praised Me, Sweet, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
That first Day, when you praised Me, Sweet, And said that I was strong -- And could be mighty, if ...
One and One — are One — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One and One -- are One -- Two -- be finished using -- Well enough for Schools -- But for ...
One Anguish — in a Crowd — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One Anguish -- in a Crowd -- A Minor thing -- it sounds -- And yet, unto the single Doe ...
Life, and Death, and Giants — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Life, and Death, and Giants -- Such as These -- are still -- Minor -- Apparatus -- Hopper of the ...
He touched me, so I live to know (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast -- ...
Further in Summer than the Birds (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be ...
Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower And casually glance Would scarcely cause one to suspect The minor ...
Art thou the thing I wanted? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Art thou the thing I wanted? Begone -- my Tooth has grown -- Supply the minor Palate That has not ...
Why — do they shut Me out of Heaven? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Why -- do they shut Me out of Heaven? Did I sing -- too loud? But -- I can say ...
A World made penniless by that departure (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A World made penniless by that departure Of minor fabrics begs But sustenance is of the spirit The Gods but ...
Rangipo Desert (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Elegy (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot A youth to flats and flatties not unknown. The Plymouth Brethren gave it to ...
Elegy (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot A youth to flats and flatties not unknown. The Plymouth Brethren gave it to ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
Elegy (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homewards ...
The Fiddling Wood (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
That One (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
Oh days devoted to the useless burden of putting out of mind the biography of a minor poet of the ...