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Bag (a revision) by DjWhite
Published on 2010-05-16 06:43:39
When it's done, all that's left is what I've carried I'm an over looked forgotten brown oh selfish hedonist you need me and will find me... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can calmly trickle like > read more
Wiring Home by Rita Dove
Published on 2010-04-27 08:59:27
RITA DOVE Lest the wolves loose their whistles and shopkeepers inquire, keep moving, though your knees flush red as two chapped apples, keep moving, head up, past the beggar's cold... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can c > read more
Possibilities written by DjWhite
Published on 2009-12-01 12:49:17
It's possible that I'll find you stewing on the stove layered between bubbles of beef and sour cream; or maybe I'll see you gripped frantically at the end of the cat's... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can calmly trickle > read more
Selecting a Reader by Ted Kooser
Published on 2009-10-15 12:03:39
First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can c > read more
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Published on 2009-10-15 11:23:38
It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. Pedestrians are flattened by safes falling from rooftops mostly within the panels of the... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can ca > read more
Promises by DjWhite
Published on 2009-10-10 10:04:30
What I saw in your eyes was the lilt of a wordless psalm,a silent cantata Mesmerized I rocked swayed to rhythms, of your whisper and sultry promises wafting along the... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They > read more
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe [My Commentary]
Published on 2009-09-29 13:22:29
Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 Let me start off by saying, I refuse to post this poem. Yes, this is a poetry site, and I do post poems but this poem The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe just... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can > read more
Rhapsody on a Windy Night -- by T.S.Eliot
Published on 2009-09-20 07:20:32
T.S. Eliot 1888 - 1965 TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can > read more
Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
Published on 2009-09-07 11:49:18
Elizabeth Alexander A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential InaugurationEach day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other's eyes or not, about to speak... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They > read more
Haiku
Published on 2009-09-04 13:09:40
Original Haiku is: A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five morae, usually containing a season word. Western Haiku has changed this lovely form from its... Words are streams of your mind and soul. They can calmly tr > read more