Hallelujah: A Sestina (Robert Francis Poem)
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah. I wonder they never gave it to a boy (Hal for short) boy with ...
Robert Francis Poems (39 Poems)
Encounter (Robert Francis Poem)
Those who have touched it or been touched by it Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed, Or ...
On a Theme by Frost (Robert Francis Poem)
Amherst never had a witch O Coos or of Grafton But once upon a time There were three old women. ...
Silent Poem (Robert Francis Poem)
backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk ...
Farm Boy After Summer (Robert Francis Poem)
A seated statue of himself he seems. A bronze slowness becomes him. Patently The page he contemplates he doesn't see. ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poem)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together, Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand, Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, ...
Symbol (Robert Francis Poem)
The winter apples have been picked, the garden turned. Rain and wind have picked the maple leaves and gone. The ...
Blue Winter (Robert Francis Poem)
Winter uses all the blues there are. One shade of blue for water, one for ice, Another blue for shadows ...
Glass (Robert Francis Poem)
Words of a poem should be glass But glass so simple-subtle its shape Is nothing but the shape of what ...