Thou Shalt Not Kill (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
A Memorial for Dylan Thomas IThey are murdering all the young men.For half a century now, every day,They have hunted them ...
Kenneth Rexroth Poems (18 Poems)
Toward An Organic Philosophy (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
SPRING, COAST RANGEThe glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless,The circle of white ash widens around it.I get ...
A Lesson In Geography (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
The stars of the Great Bear drift apartThe Horse and the Rider together northeastwardAlpha and Omega asunderThe others diverselyThere are ...
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937 (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
For a month now, wandering over the Sierras,A poem had been gathering in my mind,Details of significance and rhythm,The way ...
Lyell’s Hypothesis Again (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
The mountain road ends here,Broken away in the chasm whereThe bridge washed out years ago.The first scarlet larkspur glittersIn the ...
The Wheel Revolves (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
You were a girl of satin and gauzeNow you are my mountain and waterfall companion.Long ago I read those lines ...
Floating (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
Our canoe idles in the idling currentOf the tree and vine and rush enclosedBackwater of a torpid midwestern stream;Revolves slowly, ...
The Bad Old Days (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
The summer of nineteen eighteenI read The Jungle and TheResearch Magnificent. That fallMy father died and my auntTook me to ...
Rogation Days (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
Under the orchards, underThe tree strung vines, little blueFigures are making hay, highOn the steep hillsides abovePalladio's drowsy villasAnd Tiepolo's ...
A Letter To Yvor Winters (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
Again tonight I read "Before Disaster,"The tense memento of a willThat's striven thirty years to masterOne chaos with one spirit's ...
Proust’s Madeleine (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
Somebody has given myBaby daughter a box ofOld poker chips to play with.Today she hands me one whileI am sitting ...
Yin And Yang (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
It is spring once more in the Coast RangeWarm, perfumed, under the Easter moon.The flowers are back in their places.The ...
Discrimination (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
I don't mind the human race.I've got pretty used to themIn these past twenty-five years.I don't mind if they sit ...
Runaway (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
There are sparkles of rain on the brightHair over your forehead;Your eyes are wet and your lipsWet and cold, your ...
Confusion (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn,The blinds are drawn, and the windows are open.The soft breeze from ...
Vitamins And Roughage (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked,The daughters of CaliforniaEducate reluctant humanists;Drive into their skulls with tennis ballsThe unhappy realizationThat nature ...
Sottoportico San Zaccaria (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
It rains on the roofsAs it rains in my poemsUnder the thunderWe fit together like partsOf a magic puzzleTwelve winds ...
Hojoki (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
A thing unknown for years,Rain falls heavily in June,On the ripe cherries, and onThe half cut hay.Above the glitteringGrey water ...