Praying is Believing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Seeing is believing, so the telling goes, of one bit of truth for some of the people, most of the ...
Poems about perceive (44 Poems)
Arguing with God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wrestling with God, no that didn't get Jacob too far just a pain in the hip he carried the rest ...
Idiots (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Feeble knats Buzzing in my classroom Inane questions Blank looks On doe-like faces Frozen in time By my knowledge Unable ...
Mountain (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Algae, moss and lichen Up above the trees Granite, quartz and mica Cleared by the breeze Running down the spine ...
Musings (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Touching your cool Bronze skin Coursing my fingers Like a reader of Braille, Silently in the dark In our sanctuary ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
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 ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Constantly Risking Absurdity (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs ...
Sex With A Famous Poet (Denise Duhamel Poem)
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
Sonnet XIX: You Cannot Love (Michael Drayton Poem)
To Humor You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? There was a time you told me that you would; ...
There comes an hour when begging stops, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There comes an hour when begging stops, When the long interceding lips Perceive their prayer is vain. "Thou shalt not" ...
The Dying need but little, Dear, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Dying need but little, Dear, A Glass of Water's all, A Flower's unobtrusive Face To punctuate the Wall, A ...
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning -- Lightning -- lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality. Maimed ...
Still own thee — still thou art (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Still own thee -- still thou art What surgeons call alive -- Though slipping -- slipping I perceive To thy ...
Like Men and Women Shadows walk (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Like Men and Women Shadows walk Upon the Hills Today -- With here and there a mighty Bow Or trailing ...
Fitter to see Him, I may be (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance -- Grace -- to Me -- With Summers, and ...
Escaping backward to perceive (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place -- Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace -- Retreating up, ...
Because that you are going (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -- Because that ...
“Lethe” in my flower, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
"Lethe" in my flower, Of which they who drink In the fadeless orchards Hear the bobolink! Merely flake or petal ...
Pain — has an Element of Blank — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Pain -- has an Element of Blank -- It cannot recollect When it begun -- or if there were A ...
Remember with affection (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
They'll always tell a story those obscure mementos stacked on dusty shelves, demure and silent like the other gaudy tributes ...
On Love (Bliss Carman Poem)
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
Because gods perceive future things, men what is happening now, but wise men perceive approaching things. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius ...
Variations of an Air (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...