The Pet Coon (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Noey Bixler ketched him, and fetched him in to me When he's ist a little teenty-weenty baby-coon'Bout as big as little ...
Poems about upside-down (21 Poems)
Water Picture (May Swenson Poems)
In the pond in the parkall things are doubled;Long buildings hang andwriggle gently. Chimneysare bent legs bouncingon clouds below. A flagwags like ...
Topsy-Turvy World (William Brighty Rands Poems)
IF the butterfly courted the bee,And the owl the porcupine;If churches were built in the sea,And three times one was ...
Relearning Winter (Mark Svenvold Poems)
Hello Winter, hello flanneledblanket of clouds, cloudsfueled by more clouds, hello again.Hello afternoons,off to the west, that silverof sunset, rust-coloredand ...
Clown (Martinus Nijhoff Poems)
With blue-paper arrows on my cheeksAnd a yellow star stuck to my head,I stay, as a monkey takes my hand,hanging ...
The Elephant’s Spectacles (Paul Colinet Poems)
The dormouse was an ice-floe of the mammoth era.The wind turned leaves in the washed linen.They heard the sun approach ...
Spring-Watching Pavilion (Ho Xuan Huong Poems)
A gentle spring evening arrivesairily, unclouded by worldly dust.Three times the bell tolls echoes like a wave.We see heaven upside-down ...
St. Matthew (D H Lawrence Poems)
THEY are not all beasts.One is a man, for example, and one is a bird.I, Matthew, am a man."And I, ...
Sawin’ Wood (C J Dennis Poems)
I wondered wot was doin'. First I seenOle Missus Flood wave signals to Doreen. I'm in the paddick slashin' down ...
The Very Image – To Rene Magritte (David Gascoyne Poems)
An image of my grandmotherher head appearing upside-down upon a cloudthe cloud transfixed on the steepleof a deserted railway-stationfar awayAn ...
The Old Bark School (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
Peace (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans ...
Iva’s Pantoum (Marilyn Hacker Poems)
We pace each other for a long time. I packed my anger with the beef jerky. You are the baby ...
Salmon (Jorie Graham Poem)
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
Under the Leaves (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Under the leaves, the stems the broad, dark-summer maples little pearls, half-droplets like upside-down bell curves heavy droplets stirring shaking, ...
Madmen (Billy Collins Poem)
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
Longevity (Robert William Service Poems)
I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop. "Cuckold!" he cried, until I sighed: "You ...
Five Bells (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time, the flood that does not flow. Between the ...
Farewell To Verse (Robert William Service Poems)
In youth when oft my muse was dumb, My fancy nighly dead, To make my inspiration come I stood upon ...
The Wargeilah Handicap (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
The Crystal (Sidney Lanier Poems)
At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...