The Pilot In The Jungle (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
IMachine stitched rivets ravel on a treeWhose name he does not know. Left in the sky,He dangles from a silken ...
Poems about shale (21 Poems)
3 Sonnets for Migrants (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
1Stiff work for hands or will, they drovetheir brig southward. Science asked them assignplanet and land-mass place where none was ...
Bronco Shod With Wings (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
Sing me a home beyond the stars, and if the song be fair,I'll dwell awhile with melody--as long as mortal ...
Roll A Rock Down (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
On, out in the West where the riders are ready,They sing an old song and they tell an old tale,And ...
Head, Perhaps Of An Angel (Debora Greger Poems)
limestone, with traces of polychromy, c. 1250Point Dume was the point,he said, but we never came close,no matter how far ...
Rhymes For The Times: II: 1865 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Juist noo there are mony wha rin to an' fro,An' knowledge increases, abune an' below;The yird's like a riddle, pits, ...
Reseda (Paul Colinet Poems)
Step-ladder, tiny pyramid for miserly hunchbacks, near-sighted reckoner, the reseda, gathered in its cunninglittle cabin, breaks up, clears itself of ...
The City Limits (Archie Randolph Ammons Poems)
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withholditself but pours its abundance without selection into everynook and cranny ...
Seasons Of The Soul (Allen Tate Poems)
To the memory of John Peale Bishop, 1892-1944Attor porsi la mano un poco avante,e colsi un ramicel da un gran ...
The Blazing Star (Edwin James Brady Poems)
BLAZ1N' STAR, from Boston city -- Yankee goods and kerosene; Foreign crew and cook and master; stout, old-fashioned brigantine. Hamburg-built ...
Reply to the Question: “What is the Wealth of Australia?” (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
AUSTRALIA'S Wealth? Has she not mines of gold,Tin, copper, iron; silver, gems untold?Coal, whose dark lustre makes our dwellings bright,The ...
Hills (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
I never loved your plains!-- Your gentle valleys, Your drowsy country lanes And pleach?d alleys. I want my hills! ...
Hills (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
hillsdemonssand blasted shouldersbladed with shaledemonshillscactus thrustup through ribs of rockhillsdemonskneequartzlimestone loinsdemonshillscactus fangin sky meathillsdemonsvertebratedwith rock cut stepsdemonshillssun stroked thighs of ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Cupped in my hand (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alive, moving in my hands the arms stretching, turning; already warmed, by the sun above a starfish, pulled from the ...
The City Limits (A. R. Ammons Poem)
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook ...
Jug (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE SHALE and water thrown together so-so first of all, Then a potter's hand on the wheel and his fingers ...
Omaha (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RED barns and red heifers spot the green grass circles around Omaha-the farmers haul tanks of cream and wagon loads ...
Journey Into The Interior (Theodore Roethke Poems)
In the long journey out of the self, There are many detours, washed-out interrupted raw places Where the shale slides ...
The End Of Your Life (Philip Levine Poems)
First light. This misted field is the world, that man slipping the greased bolt back and forth, that man tunneled ...
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball (Thomas Lux Poems)
each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, the machine slicing a wisp from each blade's tip. ...