Money (Philip Larkin Poem)
Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: 'Why do you let me lie here wastefully? I am all you never had ...
Poems about upstairs (31 Poems)
Having it Out with Melancholy (Jane Kenyon Poem)
1FROM THE NURSERY When I was born, you waited behind a pile of linen in the nursery, and when we ...
One Train May Hide Another (Kenneth Koch Poem)
(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, ...
Los Angeles, 1954 (David St. John Poem)
It was in the old days, When she used to hang out at a place Called Club Zombie, A black ...
Moth Collectors (Chris Jones Poem)
When our moggy brings in moths, she squeaks through the kitchen, tips between her teeth, and scoots upstairs to scuff ...
Scraps of Memories (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Little bits of memories, most over forty years old bouncing up against one another spilling into my present consciousness a ...
Snow in the Air (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Snow in the air long before the first flakes started their long fall from the heavens snow in the feel, ...
Trapped by Flames (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
House ablaze, hissing, dying Crimson anguish My daughter upstairs, alone Helpless Firetruck - red, loud, racing, screech HELP ME! MY ...
Struggle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A bit of war poetry read by featured poets Brought it back to me that night on the floor Each ...
Framed Spaces (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A row of picture frames descends the stairway from the upstairs to the living room Four images frozen in time ...
The Vanishing Red (Robert Frost Poem)
He is said to have been the last Red man In Action. And the Miller is said to have laughed-- ...
In the Home Stretch (Robert Frost Poem)
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
I. The Witch of Coös (Robert Frost Poem)
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
A Servant to Servants (Robert Frost Poem)
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
Matt’s Manifesto (Jonathan Bohrn Poems)
The Renaissance men are aging now, having survived Industrialization's Original Sin and the Information Age flood; The need for specialization ...
A Shropshire Lad (John Betjeman Poem)
The gas was on in the Institute, The flare was up in the gym, A man was running a mineral ...
Death In Leamington (John Betjeman Poem)
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev'ning star That shone through the plate glass window ...
That’s What I Said (April Bernard Poems)
It pricks the arms like poison, knowing that some things, once chosen, are yours and that meanwhile the night comes ...
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 ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Coffee (Richard Brautigan Poem)
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
Dream Song 18: A Strut for Roethke (John Berryman Poem)
Westward, hit a low note, for a roarer lost across the Sound but north from Bremerton, hit a way down ...
Dream Song 78: Op. posth. no. 1 (John Berryman Poem)
Darkened his eye, his wild smile disappeared, inapprehensible his studies grew, nourished he less & less his subject body with ...
Childhood (Richard Aldington Poem)
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
24. Song-No Churchman am I (Robert Burns Poems)
NO churchman am I for to rail and to write, No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight, No ...
Calamity in London (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
Inheritance-His (Audre Lorde Poems)
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
September 22 (David Lehman Poems)
It's the day of the ram and the head of the year Rosh Ha'Shanah at services I sat next to ...