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The term "Poems about sisters" has been searched for 14713 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. sisters - written by Lucille Clifton
From Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980.
Read 3828 times on American Poems.
me and you be sisters.
we be the same.
me and you
coming from the same place.
me and you
be greasing our legs
touching up our edges.
me and you
be scared of rats
be stepping on roaches.
me and you
come running high down purdy... (Read full poem)
2. Nancy Knapp - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 577 times on American Poems.
Well, don't you see this was the way of it:
We bought the farm with what he inherited,
And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning
His fathers mind against the rest of them.
And we never had any peace with our treasure.
The murrain... (Read full poem)
3. Anna Imroth - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 1939 times on American Poems.
CROSS the hands over the breast here--so.
Straighten the legs a little more--so.
And call for the wagon to come and take her home.
Her mother will cry some and so will her sisters and
brothers.
But all of the others got down and they are safe... (Read full poem)
4. Sweet Violets - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 7601 times on American Poems.
You are brief and frail and blue-
Little sisters, I am, too.
You are Heaven's masterpieces-
Little loves, the likeness ceases.(Read full poem)
5. The Idea of Ancestry - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 2063 times on American Poems.
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-
fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews.They stare
across the space at me... (Read full poem)
6. Confession - written by Louise Gluck
Read 3428 times on American Poems.
To say I'm without fear--
It wouldn't be true.
I'm afraid of sickness, humiliation.
Like anyone, I have my dreams.
But I've learned to hide them,
To protect myself
From fulfillment: all happiness
Attracts the Fates' anger.
They are... (Read full poem)
7. Bird Nesting - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From American Magazine.
Published in 1906.
Read 684 times on American Poems.
O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree,
Eager and laughing, as in all our play,
To see the eggs where, in the nest, they lay,
But silent fell before the mystery.
For, one brief moment there, we understood
By sudden sympathy too fine for... (Read full poem)
8. the lost women - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1446 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)
9. The Mad Yak - written by Gregory Corso
Read 1717 times on American Poems.
I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get
from me.
They are waiting for me to die;
They want to make buttons out of my bones.
Where are my sisters and brothers?
That tall monk there, loading my uncle, he has a new cap.
And that idiot... (Read full poem)
10. The Red Poppy - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1992.
Read 2690 times on American Poems.
The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a... (Read full poem)
11. Kreisler - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1257 times on American Poems.
SELL me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood.
Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the forehead where men kiss sisters they love.
Sell me dried wood that has ached with passion clutching the knees and arms of a storm.
Sell me... (Read full poem)
12. Reconciliation. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4869 times on American Poems.
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever
again,
this
soil’d world:
...... (Read full poem)
13. the lost baby poem - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 2820 times on American Poems.
the time i dropped your almost body down
down to meet the waters under the city
and run one with the sewage to the sea
what did i know about waters rushing back
what did i know about drowning
or being drowned
you would have been born in... (Read full poem)
14. Lydia Humphrey - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 940 times on American Poems.
Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,
With my Bible under my arm
Till I was gray and old;
Unwedded, alone in the world,
Finding brothers and sisters in the congregation,
And children in the church.
I know they laughed and... (Read full poem)
15. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - written by Richard Brautigan
Published in 1950.
Read 3805 times on American Poems.
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammels and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled... (Read full poem)
16. On a Theme by Frost - written by Robert Francis
Read 465 times on American Poems.
Amherst never had a witch
O Coos or of Grafton
But once upon a time
There were three old women.
One wore a small beard
And carried a big umbrella.
One stood in the middle
Of the road hailing cars.
One drove an old cart
All over the... (Read full poem)
17. Dippold the Optician - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 428 times on American Poems.
What do you see now?
Globes of red, yellow, purple.
Just a moment! And now?
My father and mother and sisters.
Yes! And now?
Knights at arms, beautiful women, kind faces.
Try this.
A field of grain—a city.
Very good! And now?
A... (Read full poem)
18. Dream Song 172: Your face broods - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 2060 times on American Poems.
Your face broods from my table, Suicide.
Your force came on like a torrent toward the end
of agony and wrath.
You were christened in the beginning Sylvia Plath
and changed that name for Mrs Hughes and bred
and went on round the bend
till the... (Read full poem)
19. Lorelei - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1956.
Read 4187 times on American Poems.
It is no night to drown in:
A full moon, river lapsing
Black beneath bland mirror-sheen,
The blue water-mists dropping
Scrim after scrim like fishnets
Though fishermen are sleeping,
The massive castle turrets
Doubling themselves in a glass
All... (Read full poem)
20. The Moss Of His Skin - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4242 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)
21. Out of White Lips - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1601 times on American Poems.
OUT of white lips a question: Shall seven million dead ask for their blood a little land for the living wives and children, a little land for the living brothers and sisters?
Out of white lips:—Shall they have only air that sweeps round the... (Read full poem)
22. Child Margaret - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1776 times on American Poems.
THE CHILD Margaret begins to write numbers on a Saturday morning, the first numbers formed under her wishing child fingers.
All the numbers come well-born, shaped in figures assertive for a frieze in a child’s room.
Both 1 and 7 are... (Read full poem)
23. Christmas party at the South Danbury Church - written by Donald Hall
Read 711 times on American Poems.
December twenty-first
we gather at the white Church festooned
red and green, the tree flashing
green-red lights beside the altar.
After the children of Sunday School
recite Scripture, sing songs,
and scrape out solos,
they retire to dress... (Read full poem)
24. The Untrustworthy Speaker - written by Louise Gluck
Read 1762 times on American Poems.
Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.
I don't see anything objectively.
I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist.
When I speak passionately,
That's when I'm least to be trusted.
It's very sad, really: all my life... (Read full poem)
25. Cinderella - written by Anne Sexton
Read 32531 times on American Poems.
You always read about it:
the plumber with the twelve children
who wins the Irish Sweepstakes.
From toilets to riches.
That story.
Or the nursemaid,
some luscious sweet from Denmark
who captures the oldest son's heart.
from diapers to Dior.
That... (Read full poem)
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