The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
Poems about players (31 Poems)
Pau-Puk-Keewis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the village with disturbance; ...
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (Galway Kinnell Poem)
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman ...
The Big Top (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering to my heart And I like the smell of ...
Contrast (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, but here is the shore of the one ocean. And here the heavy ...
Deer Dancer (Joy Harjo Poem)
Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter except the hardcore.It was the coldest night of the ...
THE WAKE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Come, Anthea, let us two Go to feast, as others do: Tarts and custards, creams and cakes, Are the junkets ...
Buying and Selling chapter XI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling." And he answered and said: To you the earth ...
Hide and Seek (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Looking first toward the bus looking for the girls waving good bye as they headed off to school The sun ...
Reading His Story (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Over and over again in the words of this week the scripture so deeply reading his story The different players ...
A Fitting Sky (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fitting sky this morning the story continuing not bright and sunny like yesterday The sky dark and foreboding clouds ...
Pandora’s Box (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
So much, the law, the issues the facts, the players that old, old story that bit of mythology Pandora's box, ...
In Praise of Bit Players (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The pastor spoke of bit players of the people in the story, the word of God with small, sometimes unnamed ...
A Fruitless Tree (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A tree, not bearing fruit A landowner impatient, ready to pass judgment, A gardener, ready to work, asking for more ...
Being Known in the Gate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Meeting, greeting, knowing the crowd the adversaries, the allies, the seemingly neutrals the advocates, the prosecutors, the clerks the officers ...
When the House is Quiet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When the house is quiet and the girls are asleep sitting at my desk, at the computer studying, researching a ...
Waiting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Paneled walls, formal distances, raised dais bifurcated space, Hatfields and McCoys, bride and groom Peculiar pews, wide oak masculine pews, ...
Meeting History (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Expectantly, asking where she was She was eight, at that point, in that year my long-dead ancestor alive again in ...
Balance – Stephano’s Lament (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
"Caliban, Trinculo, My insolent mates, Don't you know me?" It is Stephano. Pour me another mug of mead To block ...
Actors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Plaintiffs and defendants Appellant appellee Pleader, respondent Opposing counsel Judge and jury Actors on the stage Assigned roles Scripted lines ...
Unprepared (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Panic fills my chest Angry that I didn't find time That my life got in the way Ever present, tantalizing, ...
Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
The Channel Swimmer (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress (John Donne Poem)
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
He fumbles at your Soul (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on -- He stuns you ...
What a weekend (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What a weekend, it certainly defied all the pundits' trends, the 'World Game' French were trashed by Versace and petulance, ...
Twenty Four Hour Embrace (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Awakening in the twenty four hour embrace of a few moments sleep, where half a lifetime eludes dreams; and feeling ...
Out of The Annexe (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
Benefit of doubt (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Turns And Movies: The Cornet (Conrad Aiken Poem)
When she came out, that white little Russian dancer, With her bright hair, and her eyes, so young, so young, ...