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The term "O crazy daddy" has been searched for 95 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. "Daddy" Warbucks - written by Anne Sexton
Read 15534 times on American Poems.
In Memoriam
What's missing is the eyeballs
in each of us, but it doesn't matter
because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
You let me touch them, fondle the green faces
lick at their numbers and it lets you be
my "Daddy!" "Daddy!" and... (Read full poem)
2. Daddy - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 48838 times on American Poems.
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time ----
Marble-heavy, a bag full of... (Read full poem)
3. The Moss Of His Skin - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4432 times on American Poems.
"Young girls in old Arabia were often buried alive next
to their fathers, apparently as sacrifice to the goddesses
of the tribes..."
--Harold Feldman, "Children of the Desert" Psychoanalysis
and Psychoanalytic Review, Fall 1958
It was only... (Read full poem)
4. Some People - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4206 times on American Poems.
some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
they'll find me there.
it's Cherub, they'll say, and
they pour wine down my throat
rub my chest
sprinkle me with oils.
then, I'll rise with a roar,
rant, rage... (Read full poem)
5. A Tenant of Mrs. Van Kleeck - written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Published in 1787.
Read 481 times on American Poems.
My very good landlady, Mistress Van Kleeck,
(For the tears that o'erwhelm me I scarcely can speak)
I know that I promis'd you hogs two or three
(But who knows his destiny? Certain not me!)
That I promis'd three hogs I don't mean to deny
(I... (Read full poem)
6. The Crazy Woman - written by Gwendolyn Brooks
Read 8242 times on American Poems.
I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.
I'll wait until November
That is the time for me.
I'll go out in the frosty dark
And sing most terribly.
And all the little people
Will stare... (Read full poem)
7. A Poem For Myself - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 3202 times on American Poems.
(or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)
I was born in Mississippi;
I walked barefooted thru the mud.
Born black in Mississippi,
Walked barefooted thru the mud.
But, when I reached the age of twelve
I left that place for good.
My daddy... (Read full poem)
8. Mask - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2025 times on American Poems.
TO have your face left overnight
Flung on a board by a crazy sculptor;
To have your face drop off a board
And fall to pieces on a floor
Lost among lumps all finger-marked
—How now?
To be calm and level, placed high,
Looking among perfect... (Read full poem)
9. Elephant Dormitory - written by Russell Edson
From Ploughshares.
Read 1177 times on American Poems.
An elephant went to bed and pulled a crazy quilt up under
its tusks.
But just as the great gray head began filling with the gray
wrinkles of sleep it was awakened by the thud of its tail
falling out of bed.
Would you get my tail? said the... (Read full poem)
10. This Life - written by William Stafford
Read 2466 times on American Poems.
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach
We would climb the highest dune,
from there to gaze and come down:
the ocean was performing;
we contributed our climb.
Waves leapfrogged and came
straight out of the storm.
What should our gaze mean?
Kit... (Read full poem)
11. Cortège - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 480 times on American Poems.
Four o'clock this afternoon,
Fifteen hundred miles away:
So it goes, the crazy tune,
So it pounds and hums all day
Four o'clock this afternoon,
Earth will hide them far away:
Best they go to go so soon,
Best for them the grave... (Read full poem)
12. In The Well - written by Andrew Hudgins
Read 2626 times on American Poems.
My father cinched the rope,
a noose around my waist,
and lowered me into
the darkness. I could taste
my fear. It tasted first
of dark, then earth, then rot.
I swung and struck my head
and at that moment got
another then: then blood,
which spiked... (Read full poem)
13. I'm In Love - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 7268 times on American Poems.
she's young, she said,
but look at me,
I have pretty ankles,
and look at my wrists, I have pretty
wrists
o my god,
I thought it was all working,
and now it's her again,
every time she phones you go crazy,
you told me it was over
you told me it was... (Read full poem)
14. good times - written by Lucille Clifton
Published in 1987.
Read 3326 times on American Poems.
my daddy has paid the rent
and the insurance man is gone
and the lights is back on
and my uncle brud has hit
for one dollar straight
and they is good times
good times
good times
my mama has made bread
and grampaw has come
and everybody... (Read full poem)
15. To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph - written by Anne Sexton
Read 7225 times on American Poems.
Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on,
testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade,
and think of that first flawless moment over the lawn
of the labyrinth. Think of the difference it made!
There below are the trees, as... (Read full poem)
16. (will you teach a... (12) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 24219 times on American Poems.
(will you teach a
wretch to live
straighter than a needle)
ask
her
ask
when
(ask and
ask
and ask
again and)ask a
brittle little
person fiddling
in
the
rain
(did you kiss
a... (Read full poem)
17. Granny - written by James Whitcomb Riley
From Complete Works.
Published in 1895.
Read 3335 times on American Poems.
Granny's come to our house,
And ho! my lawzy-daisy!
All the childern round the place
Is ist a-runnin' crazy!
Fetched a cake fer little Jake,
And fetched a pie fer Nanny,
And fetched a pear fer all the pack
That runs to kiss... (Read full poem)
18. Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) - written by Anne Sexton
Read 13434 times on American Poems.
Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.
She is stuck in the time machine,
suddenly two years old sucking her thumb,
as inward as a... (Read full poem)
19. Rain - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 8214 times on American Poems.
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a... (Read full poem)
20. The Hangman at Home - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3427 times on American Poems.
WHAT does the hangman think about
When he goes home at night from work?
When he sits down with his wife and
Children for a cup of coffee and a
Plate of ham and eggs, do they ask
Him if it was a good day’s work
And everything went well or do... (Read full poem)
21. Nomenclature - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 546 times on American Poems.
My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she... (Read full poem)
22. The Veteran - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 4235 times on American Poems.
When I was young and bold and strong,
Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong!
My plume on high, my flag unfurled,
I rode away to right the world.
"Come out, you dogs, and fight!" said I,
And wept there was but once to die.
But I am old; and good... (Read full poem)
23. A Teamster's Farewell - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3214 times on American Poems.
Sobs En Route to a Penitentiary
GOOD-BY now to the streets and the clash of wheels and
locking hubs,
The sun coming on the brass buckles and harness knobs.
The muscles of the horses sliding under their heavy
haunches,
Good-by now to the traffic... (Read full poem)
24. mrs... (15) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 6097 times on American Poems.
mrs
& mr across the way are kind of
afraid)afraid
of what(of
a crazy man)don't
ask me how i know(a he of head
comes to some dirty window every)twilight i
feel(his lousy eyes roaming)wonderful all
sky(a little mouth)stumbling(can't
keep up... (Read full poem)
25. Elephant Poem - written by Judy Grahn
From Work of a Common Woman.
Published in 1977.
Read 1845 times on American Poems.
Suppose you have an elephant
with 56 millimeter trunk
and say he's
tearing up the jungle
(say you think he's drunk
or crazy)
How're you going to bring that elephant down?
lion can't
bear could but don't want to
and the panther's too small for that... (Read full poem)
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