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The term "Parents names" has been searched for 19 times on the American Poems site since October 30th, 2005.
Search Results: 9 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. The Fall - written by Russell Edson
Read 2467 times on American Poems.
There was a man who found two leaves and came
indoors holding them out saying to his parents
that he was a tree.
To which they said then go into the yard and do
not grow in the living room as your roots may
ruin the carpet.
He said I was... (Read full poem)
2. Willie Pennington - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 469 times on American Poems.
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,
For my brothers were strong and beautiful,
While I, the last child of parents who had aged,
Inherited only their residue of power.
But they, my brothers, were eaten up
In the fury of the flesh, which... (Read full poem)
3. Christmas At The Orphanage - written by Bill Knott
Read 886 times on American Poems.
But if they'd give us toys and twice the stuff most
parents splurge on the average kid, orphans, I submit, need more than enough;
in fact, stacks wrapped with our names nearly hid
the tree: these sparkling allotments yearly
guaranteed a lack... (Read full poem)
4. The Naming Of Cats - written by T.S. Eliot
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Read 24814 times on American Poems.
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such... (Read full poem)
5. Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) - written by William Matthews
Read 610 times on American Poems.
The lump of coal my parents teased
I'd find in my Christmas stocking
turned out each year to be an orange,
for I was their sunshine.
Now I have one C. gave me,
a dense node of sleeping fire.
I keep it where I read and write.
"You're on chummy terms... (Read full poem)
6. the lost women - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1447 times on American Poems.
i need to know their names
those women i would have walked with
jauntily the way men go in groups
swinging their arms, and the ones
those sweating women whom i would have joined
after a hard game to chew the fat
what would we have called each... (Read full poem)
7. War Profit Litany - written by Allen Ginsberg
From The Fall of America.
Published in 1967.
Read 5095 times on American Poems.
To Ezra Pound
These are the names of the companies that have made
money from this war
nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand
eighty Hebraic
These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan-
dising... (Read full poem)
8. Teach Him -- When He makes the names - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2749 times on American Poems.
Teach Him -- When He makes the names --
Such an one -- to say --
On his babbling -- Berry -- lips --
As should sound -- to me --
Were my Ear -- as near his nest --
As my thought -- today --
As should sound --
"Forbid us not" --
Some like "Emily."(Read full poem)
9. The Parent - written by Ogden Nash
Read 6862 times on American Poems.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.(Read full poem)
10. You'll find -- it when you try to die -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1568 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)
11. Broken Tabernacles - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1185 times on American Poems.
HAVE I broken the smaller tabernacles, O Lord?
And in the destruction of these set up the greater and massive, the everlasting tabernacles?
I know nothing today, what I have done and why, O Lord, only I have broken and broken tabernacles.
They were... (Read full poem)
12. Three Ghosts - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1899 times on American Poems.
THREE tailors of Tooley Street wrote: We, the People.
The names are forgotten. It is a joke in ghosts.
Cutters or bushelmen or armhole basters, they sat
cross-legged stitching, snatched at scissors, stole each
other thimbles.
Cross-legged,... (Read full poem)
13. 1954 - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1926 times on American Poems.
Then dirt scared me, because of the dirt
he had put on her face. And her training bra
scared me—the newspapers, morning and evening,
kept saying it, training bra,
as if the cups of it had been calling
the breasts up—he buried her in... (Read full poem)
14. Before Sleep - written by Catherine Anderson
Read 2866 times on American Poems.
I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.
I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these... (Read full poem)
15. Walt Whitman - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 995 times on American Poems.
The master-songs are ended, and the man
That sang them is a name. And so is God
A name; and so is love, and life, and death,
And everything. But we, who are too blind
To read what we have written, or what faith
Has written for us, do not... (Read full poem)
16. April 26 - written by David Lehman
Read 675 times on American Poems.
When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what my parents
spoke at home(Read full poem)
17. Sadness - written by Donald Justice
Read 8777 times on American Poems.
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Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,
Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?
What great melancholies were loosed among our swings!
As before a storm one hears the leaves whispering
And marks each small change in the atmosphere,
So... (Read full poem)
19. So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2012 times on American Poems.
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,
For I wish to be purged of an urge.
It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,
And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my... (Read full poem)
20. Amateurs of Heaven - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 625 times on American Poems.
Two lovers to a midnight meadow came
High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand
Like effigies and look up at the stars,
The never-setting ones set in the North
To circle the Pole in idiot majesty,
And wonder what was given them to... (Read full poem)
21. Less Time - written by Richard Brautigan
Read 1745 times on American Poems.
Less time than it takes to say it, less tears than it takes to die; I've taken account
of everything, there you have it. I've made a census of the stones, they are as numerous
as my fingers and some others; I've distributed some pamphelts to the... (Read full poem)
22. Alone, I cannot be - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4227 times on American Poems.
Alone, I cannot be --
For Hosts -- do visit me --
Recordless Company --
Who baffle Key --
They have no Robes, nor Names --
No Almanacs -- nor Climes --
But general Homes
Like Gnomes --
Their Coming, may be known
By Couriers within --
Their going... (Read full poem)
23. X - written by Jean Valentine
Read 527 times on American Poems.
I have decorated this banner to honor my brother.
Our parents did not want his name used publicly
-- from an unnamed child's banner in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky.
I remember looking at you,... (Read full poem)
25. Yesterday - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 4487 times on American Poems.
My friend says I was not a good son
you understand
I say yes I understand
he says I did not go
to see my parents very often you know
and I say yes I know
even when I was living in the same city he says
maybe I would go there once
a month or maybe... (Read full poem)
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