Victory (Henry Lawson Poem)
The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride, The city bands before them, the soldiers marched beside; Oh, starched ...
Poems about soap (31 Poems)
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” (Robert Lowell Poem)
"It is the future generation that presses into being by means of these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ...
Next Day (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, ...
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? (Robert Graves Poem)
Look at my knees, That island rising from the steamy seas! The candles a tall lightship; my two hands Are ...
Homework (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, ...
The Morning (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
Alone I wake each morning, With no one there to play; I would rather just stay in bed, And forget ...
Explaining Job (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We gathered, in a circle in the Parlor of the church gathering to study your word, the message in the ...
Suds for the aphids (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A foamy cure for a garden crisis a rose bush, individual buds encased in a moving mass a living second ...
I Was Six (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
My wife shared with me new candles votives to replace those used up Suddenly I was six, maybe eight certainly ...
The great journalist in spain (Eugene Field Poem)
Good editor Dana--God bless him, we say-- Will soon be afloat on the main, Will be steaming away Through the ...
Elegy (Alan Dugan Poem)
I know but will not tell you, Aunt Irene, why there are soap suds in the whiskey: Uncle Robert had ...
The Poet Washes Dishes (Peter Conners Poem)
It took several hours. There were spaces in the cookware of which no one was aware, save the poet. The ...
The Song against Grocers (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Fit the Seventh ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Banker's Fate They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Fit the Fourth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
Fit the Sixth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Fit the Eighth (Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
Fit the Fifth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Mad Gardener’s Song (Lewis Carroll Poems)
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Because Her Heart Is Tender, for Beth (Michael Burch Poem)
She scrawled soft words in soap: "Never Forget," Dove-white on her car's window, and the wren, because her heart is ...
Reasonable Interest (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
I want to know how Bernard Shaw Likes beefsteak-fairly done, or raw? I want to know what kinds of shoes ...
Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Romeo and Juliet (Richard Brautigan Poem)
If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing ...
The Shower (Charles Bukowski Poem)
we like to shower afterwards (I like the water hotter than she) and her face is always soft and peaceful ...
Arrival At Santos (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped ...
My Child Wafts Peace (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
My child wafts peace. When I lean over him, It is not just the smell of soap. All the people ...
My First Affair With That Older Woman (Charles Bukowski Poems)
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent, ...