An Instance Of Dyspepsia (Eli Siegel Poems)
I There is a man of fifty-four years; He has dyspepsia, it appears; He chooses his food carefully, He pays ...
Eli Siegel Poems (31 Poems)
A Marriage (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. North Carolina, Washington and Baltimore. 2. An auto going south, and words in a room, And outside, pink of ...
Hymn To Jazz And The Like (Eli Siegel Poems)
What is sound, as standing for the world and the mind of man at any time, and in ...
Ralph Isham, 1753 And Later (Eli Siegel Poems)
Know you him, O, him, Who lived in those days? He wore a gay coat, And he stepped along, jauntily, ...
Local Stop, Sheridan Square (Eli Siegel Poems)
I The subways, as usual, take emotions north and south.When you are in a subway, emotion goes with you. Emotion ...
Twenty-One Distichs About Children (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. Bernice thinks a little. Bernice is two months old; the world is new for her. Ah, will her parents' ...
Somewhere This (Eli Siegel Poems)
Trees standing in rain; Footfalls on the pavement, feet crushing leaves; A little girl leaving her house; The moon, barely ...
Poems, Chiefly Scientific (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. To Settle As Chalk Blankness and thickness Took a walk; And while walking decided To settle as chalk. 2. ...
This Summer Morning Mariana Has (Eli Siegel Poems)
Mariana, with the morning so, Walking one morning up a road near woods, With the sun young that morning, And ...
Neighboring You (Eli Siegel Poems)
On a table With the sunlight coming in, A mat, irregularly placed, with many curves within it; A napkin somewhat ...
To Dylan Thomas (Eli Siegel Poems)
I hope that where you are (I think so, too) People, including literary people, Will see you more as you ...
Afternoon (Eli Siegel Poems)
Hear Mr. Bulwer as he talks. You might think he was so cheerful. That smile took him ages to get ...
Kaddish (Eli Siegel Poems)
(Words Having Holiness) May His great name Be mighty and holy In the world His will has made. May this ...
Must I Wait All My Life; or, The Misery Song (Eli Siegel Poems)
(Uncouth-and-not Anthem of the Particular and General Unconscious) Must I wait all my life for a certain thing to happen? ...
All For Herself; Shakey (Eli Siegel Poems)
Darkly, between two worlds, Darkly, impeded; What it might joy at Not seen as needed. Such winsome coils in a ...
The Dark That Was Is Here (Eli Siegel Poems)
A girl, in ancient Greece, Be sure, had no more peace Than one in Idaho. To feel and yet to ...
Quiet, Tears, Babies (Eli Siegel Poems)
Quiet in the street,In the street with houses having babies, Lately born, lately born.These babies now are growing,And the street ...
Dear Birds, Tell This To Mothers (Eli Siegel Poems)
Fly, birds, over all grieving mothers. Tell them, if they know more, They will grieve less. Tell them that the ...
Have The Lily (Eli Siegel Poems)
It is a world of space and fritters, Somehow with us all day long; A world - mad - of ...
Alice Has Never Been In China (Eli Siegel Poems)
Here have we China, And here have we: Alice. Alice has never been in China, China never has had Alice; ...
Amiable Thoughts For Someone In A Hospital (Eli Siegel Poems)
A Poem Of Aesthetic Realism May the things you say to yourselfBe the best for you.May the things you hear ...
The Unknown Should Be Good (Eli Siegel Poems)
It was a dark corridor. Down that corridor, in darkness, went someone whom you could adore. But she wasn't seen ...
Something Else Should Die: (Eli Siegel Poems)
A Poem with Rhymes In April 1865 Abraham Lincoln died. In April 1968 Martin Luther King died. Their purpose was ...
Contemporary History (Eli Siegel Poems)
Moods Are waiting So that you Or anyone) Can get Into them(Eli Siegel)
Come, Spring Flowers (Eli Siegel Poems)
Though the whole world will work to make you to, I say, Come, spring flowers.(Eli Siegel)
Love And Jobs (Eli Siegel Poems)
At rest On her breast, He lay. And he thought Of his job Next day.(Eli Siegel)
Still The Dawn (Eli Siegel Poems)
Came the dawn To the man. Ran the man From the dawn. Still the dawn Waits for man.(Eli Siegel)
They Look At Us (Eli Siegel Poems)
Martin Luther King Is with John Brown. Look up: you'll see them both Looking down - Deep and so wide ...
Discouraged People (Eli Siegel Poems)
The discouraged People were wedged So closely together in the subway You could take one discouraged person for the other.(Eli ...
Spark (Eli Siegel Poems)
I am a spark, Which always goes out, For it needs another spark. What is your name, bystander? What is ...