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The term "Obsession--I'm not supposed to love you, but yet I find I do," has been searched for 80 times on the American Poems site since November 3rd, 2004.
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1. Sleep is supposed to be - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 19468 times on American Poems.
Sleep is supposed to be
By souls of sanity
The shutting of the eye.
Sleep is the station grand
Down which, on either hand
The hosts of witness stand!
Morn is supposed to be
By people of degree
The breaking of the Day.
Morning has not... (Read full poem)
2. Death warrants are supposed to be - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1773 times on American Poems.
Death warrants are supposed to be
An enginery of equity
A merciful mistake
A pencil in an Idol's Hand
A Devotee has oft consigned
To Crucifix or Block(Read full poem)
3. The Hangman's Great Hands - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 905 times on American Poems.
And all that is this day. . .
The boy with cap slung over what had been a face. ..
Somehow the cop will sleep tonight, will make love to his
wife...
Anger won't help. I was born angry. Angry that my father was
being burnt alive in the... (Read full poem)
4. To the Pay Toilet - written by Marge Piercy
Read 1712 times on American Poems.
You strop my anger, especially
when I find you in restaurant or bar
and pay for the same liquid, coming and going.
In bus depots and airports and turnpike plazas
some woman is dragging in with three kids hung off her
shrieking their simple... (Read full poem)
5. Something - written by Robert Creeley
Read 1930 times on American Poems.
I approach with such
a careful tremor, always
I feel the finally foolish
question of how it is,
then, supposed to be felt,
and by whom. I remember
once in a rented room on
27th street, the woman I loved
then, literally, after we
had made love on... (Read full poem)
7. Ghosts in Love - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 906 times on American Poems.
"Tell me, where do ghosts in love
Find their bridal veils?"
"If you and I were ghosts in love
We'd climb the cliffs of Mystery,
Above the sea of Wails.
I'd trim your gray and streaming hair
With veils of Fantasy
From the tree of... (Read full poem)
8. Advance is Life's condition - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1594 times on American Poems.
Advance is Life's condition
The Grave but a Relay
Supposed to be a terminus
That makes it hated so --
The Tunnel is not lighted
Existence with a wall
Is better we consider
Than not exist at all --(Read full poem)
9. À Bas Ben Adhem - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2452 times on American Poems.
My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer I can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind.
If I'm supposed to swallow that,
Winnetka is my habitat.
Isn't it time to carve Hic Jacet
Above that Reproduction... (Read full poem)
10. You love me -- you are sure - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 80322 times on American Poems.
You love me -- you are sure --
I shall not fear mistake --
I shall not cheated wake --
Some grinning morn --
To find the Sunrise left --
And Orchards -- unbereft --
And Dollie -- gone!
I need not start -- you're sure --
That night will never be... (Read full poem)
11. The Testimony Of Light - written by Carolyn Forché
Published in 1994.
Read 2722 times on American Poems.
Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone.
--Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi
Outside everything visible and invisible a blazing maple.
Daybreak: a seam at the curve of the world. The trousered legs of... (Read full poem)
12. I noticed People disappeared - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2647 times on American Poems.
I noticed People disappeared
When but a little child --
Supposed they visited remote
Or settled Regions wild --
But did because they died
A Fact withheld the little child --(Read full poem)
13. Trapped - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3356 times on American Poems.
don't undress my love
you might find a mannequin:
don't undress the mannequin
you might find
my love.
she's long ago
forgotten me.
she's trying on a new
hat
and looks more the
coquette
than ever.
she is a
child
and a mannequin
and death.
I... (Read full poem)
14. There is a June when Corn is cut - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1783 times on American Poems.
There is a June when Corn is cut
And Roses in the Seed --
A Summer briefer than the first
But tenderer indeed
As should a Face supposed the Grave's
Emerge a single Noon
In the Vermilion that it wore
Affect us, and return --
Two Seasons, it is... (Read full poem)
15. The Philosophers - written by Russell Edson
From The Tunnel.
Published in 1994.
Read 1332 times on American Poems.
I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly
hit him on the head, saying, I hit my son on the head,
therefore I am.
No no, you've got it all wrong, cried the man.
So she hit him on the head again and cried, therefore I am.
You're... (Read full poem)
16. Voyages - written by Philip Levine
Read 612 times on American Poems.
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart --
I walk by sedge and brown river rot
to where the old lake boats went daily out.
All the ships are gone, the gray wharf fallen
in upon itself. Even the channel's
grown over. Once we set sail here
for... (Read full poem)
17. FOREWARD, is 5 - written by e.e. cummings
Read 7681 times on American Poems.
F O R E W A R D
On the assumption that my technique is either complicated or original
or both, the publishers have politely requested me to write an intro-
duction to this book.
At least my theory of technique, if I have one, is very far... (Read full poem)
18. Tear It Down - written by Jack Gilbert
From The Great Fires.
Published in 1994.
Read 2309 times on American Poems.
We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond
affection and... (Read full poem)
19. The Great Fires - written by Jack Gilbert
From The Great Fires.
Published in 1994.
Read 24925 times on American Poems.
Love is apart from all things.
Desire and excitement are nothing beside it.
It is not the body that finds love.
What leads us there is the body.
What is not love provokes it.
What is not love quenches it.
Love lays hold of everything we know.... (Read full poem)
20. The Sun -- just touched the Morning - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4092 times on American Poems.
The Sun -- just touched the Morning --
The Morning -- Happy thing --
Supposed that He had come to dwell --
And Life would all be Spring!
She felt herself supremer --
A Raised -- Ethereal Thing!
Henceforth -- for Her -- What Holiday!
Meanwhile --... (Read full poem)
21. Most she touched me by her muteness -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1479 times on American Poems.
Most she touched me by her muteness --
Most she won me by the way
She presented her small figure --
Plea itself -- for Charity --
Were a Crumb my whole possession --
Were there famine in the land --
Were it my resource from starving --
Could I such... (Read full poem)
22. You'll find -- it when you try to die -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1604 times on American Poems.
You'll find -- it when you try to die --
The Easier to let go --
For recollecting such as went --
You could not spare -- you know.
And though their places somewhat filled --
As did their Marble names
With Moss -- they never grew so full --
You... (Read full poem)
23. Ghost Shadow - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From Painting with Words.
Read 3150 times on American Poems.
she looks at the world from
another side of the window
her essence a sandy presence
before an astral stage curtain
elevator hallucinations
my mind caught
between piped ideas and
tea cloud beams
my heart waiting
with anticipation,... (Read full poem)
24. Never Again The Same - written by James Tate
Read 7253 times on American Poems.
Speaking of sunsets,
last night's was shocking.
I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are they?
Well, this one was terrifying.
Sure, it was beautiful, but far too beautiful.
It wasn't natural.
One climax followed another and then... (Read full poem)
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