For Sidney Bechet (Philip Larkin Poem)
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate ...
Poems about orleans (21 Poems)
The Flaâneur (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
Freedoms Plow (Langston Hughes Poem)
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (Langston Hughes Poem)
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human ...
Graves of New Orleans (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There is something rare something grand something right about the graves of New Orleans not hidden flat stones carved names ...
Congo Square (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Sneakers of mud Squish between my toes Move to the music Unhinge my spine Rain upon me Don't have a ...
A Mien to move a Queen (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Mien to move a Queen -- Half Child -- Half Heroine -- An Orleans in the Eye That puts ...
Part 2 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
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 ...
Young In New Orleans (Charles Bukowski Poem)
starving there, sitting around the bars, and at night walking the streets for hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to ...
An Almost Made Up Poem (Charles Bukowski Poem)
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
American Feuillage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. (Walt Whitman Poems)
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
Letter Home (Natasha Trethewey Poems)
--New Orleans, November 1910 Four weeks have passed since I left, and still I must write to you of no ...
MARIE LAVEAU TALKS ABOUT MAGIC FROM A CONFESSIONAL IN ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL (Chris Tusa Poems)
Marie Laveau, a colored woman who eventually became known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, often used her knowledge ...
Cockroach (Anne Sexton Poems)
Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps ...
Henry (Robert William Service Poems)
Mary and I were twenty-two When we were wed; A well-matched pair, right smart to view The town's folk said. ...
Legends (Carl Sandburg Poems)
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture ...
Topography (Sharon Olds Poems)
After we flew across the country we got in bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to ...
O Glorious France (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...