Kenneth Koch Poems Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,And salty light reveals the Mayan School.The Irish hope their names are ...

It takes a lot of a person's lifeTo be French, or English, or AmericanOr Italian. And to be at any ...

Leo bends over his desk Gazing at a memorandum While Stuart stands beside him With a smile, saying, "Leo, the order for those desks Came ...

Nothing's moving I don't see anybodyAnd I know that it's not a trickThere really is nothing moving thereAnd there aren't ...

They stirI cool her in winterA second so gilded that the bit goesFrom my gold thigh I thirsts for her, stirring, from my ...

Who was my teacher at Harvard. Did not wear overcoatSaying to me as we walked across the YardCold brittle autumn ...

There is no way not to be excitedWhen what you have been disillusioned by raises its headFrom its arms and ...

Passing the American graveyard, for my birthdaythe crosses stuttering, white on tropical green,the years' quick focus of faces I do ...

You have helped hold me together. I'd like you to be still. Stop talking or doing anything else for a ...

(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, ...

1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but ...

A serious moment for the water is when it boils And though one usually regards it merely as a convenience ...

Kenneth Koch Poems (12 Poems)