Prevailing Winds (Lee Anderson2 Poems)
IThe bland many-eyed wallsof skyscrapers and the modestin-between brownstone housesshall not bruise the thrust of his rapier spiritrather the artist ...
Poems about offshore (21 Poems)
The Ballad of Louis Wagner (John Perreault Poems)
The fog peers in the windows, passes 'neath the lampsSettles in the doorways and huddles from the dampSlips inside the ...
A Walk (William Matthews Poems)
February on the narrow beach, 3oA.M. I set out south. Cape Cod Lighton its crumbling cliff above me turnsits wand ...
Connivance (Pierre Martory Poems)
IBlack and green minute, in wave, ending inTwo bending hands of cellophane,Like flowers without water.Space of my eyes, you impose ...
Jewelled seaweed (Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems)
Jewelled seaweed,Province of Sanuki:Is it your nature thatThe sight of you will never sate?Is it that your guardian godIs paramount?With ...
By the sea in Iwami (Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems)
By the sea in Iwami,On the shore at Tsuno,There is no beach,For folk to see;No shallow water,For folk to see;Yet ...
The waves offshore (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
The waves offshoreRise high; on the beach at TakashiThe pines,As their name suggests, for youKeep on waiting. (Ki no Tsurayuki)
Blossoms blooming (Ono no Komachi Poems)
Blossoms bloomingYet making no seed areThe sea-god'sGarlandedWhitecaps offshore. (Ono no Komachi)
The Wars and the Unknown Soldier (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
IDry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves;voices of leaves on the wind that bears them to destruction,impassioned prayer, impassioned ...
Moths (Dorothy Violet Wellesley Poems)
Now with a humming from the greening skies,Sphinx moths with course set true,Shoot forth, torpedoes with a spinning screw,And bulbous ...
El Extraviado (Alan Seeger Poems)
Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind, I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings ...
Coda (Basil Bunting Poems)
A strong song tows us, long earsick. Blind, we follow rain slant, spray flick to fields we do not know. ...
The Destroyers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The ...
Dunes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
An old weathered section of snow fencing half buried in the lee of the dune gray skin gnarled by wind ...
Snowbirds (Peter Conners Poem)
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
The End Of March (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read: Duxbury It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk ...
Even Because (Ralph Angel Poem)
Because it all just breaks apart, and the pieces scatter and rearrange without much fanfare or notice. Because you can't ...
Rip (James Wright Poems)
It can't be the passing of time that casts That white shadow across the waters Just offshore. I shiver a ...
El Extraviado (Alan Seeger Poems)
Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind, I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings ...
The Mercy (Philip Levine Poems)
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying to ...
The Negatives (Philip Levine Poems)
On March 1, 1958, four deserters from the French Army of North Africa, August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jack Dauville, & ...