Lola Ridge Poems on Light (19 Poems)

The Ghetto (Lola Ridge Poems)

ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...

Betty (Lola Ridge Poems)

You can see the sandhills from our new room.Butterflieslive in the sandhillsand lizardsand centipedes.If you keep very stilllizards will think ...

The Song Of Iron (Lola Ridge Poems)

INot yet hast Thou soundedThy clangorous music,Whose strings are under the mountains…Not yet hast Thou spokenThe blooded, implacable Word…But I ...

Celia (Lola Ridge Poems)

Cherry, cherry,glowing on the hearth,bright red cherry..When you try to pick up cherryCelia's shrieksticks in you like a pin.When God ...

Flotsam (Lola Ridge Poems)

Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;Cafes glittering like jeweled teeth;High-flung signsBlinking yellow phosphorescent eyes;Girls in blackCircling monotonouslyAbout the orange lights…Nothing ...

Broadway (Lola Ridge Poems)

Light!Innumerable ions of light,Kindling, irradiating,All to their foci tending…Light that jingles like anklet chainsOn bevies of little lithe twinkling feet,Or ...

Faces (Lola Ridge Poems)

A late snow beatsWith cold white fists upon the tenements -Hurriedly drawing blinds and shutters,Like tall old slatternsPulling aprons about ...

Jaguar (Lola Ridge Poems)

Nasal intonations of lightand clicking tongues * * *publicity of windowsstoning me with pent-up cries * * *smells of abattoirs ...

Under-Song (Lola Ridge Poems)

There is music in the strongDeep-throated bush,Whisperings of songHeard in the leaves' hush -Ballads of the treesIn tongues unknown -A ...

Dispossed (Lola Ridge Poems)

Tender and tremulous green of leavesTurned up by the wind,Twanging among the vines -Wind in the grassBlowing a clear pathFor ...

Dispossessed (Lola Ridge Poems)

Tender and tremulous green of leavesTurned up by the wind,Twanging among the vines -Wind in the grassBlowing a clear pathFor ...

Dreams (Lola Ridge Poems)

Men die…Dreams only change their houses.They cannot be lined up against a wallAnd quietly buried under ground,And no more heard ...

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