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The term "b day poems for brother turning 40" has been searched for 26 times on the American Poems site since June 20th, 2007.
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1. Kin - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1913.
Read 2439 times on American Poems.
BROTHER, I am fire
Surging under the ocean floor.
I shall never meet you, brother--
Not for years, anyhow;
Maybe thousands of years, brother.
Then I will warm you,
Hold you close, wrap you in circles,
Use you and change you--
Maybe thousands of... (Read full poem)
2. Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1654 times on American Poems.
Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru --
Empty the Hearts that purchased you --
--
Sister of Ophir --
Ah, Peru --
Subtle the Sum
That purchase you --
--
Brother of Ophir
Bright Adieu,
Honor, the shortest route
To you.(Read full poem)
3. Domination Of Black - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 6263 times on American Poems.
At night, by the fire,
The colors of the bushes
And of the fallen leaves,
Repeating themselves,
Turned in the room,
Like the leaves themselves
Turning in the wind.
Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlocks
Came striding.
And I remembered the cry of... (Read full poem)
4. To the Reader - written by Denise Levertov
Read 656 times on American Poems.
As you read, a white bear leisurely
pees, dyeing the snow
saffron,
and as you read, many gods
lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian
are watching the generations of leaves,
and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages,
turning
its dark... (Read full poem)
5. Drinking While Driving - written by Raymond Carver
Read 16316 times on American Poems.
It's August and I have not
Read a book in six months
except something called The Retreat from Moscow
by Caulaincourt
Nevertheless, I am happy
Riding in a car with my brother
and drinking from a pint of Old Crow.
We do not have any place in... (Read full poem)
6. Matins - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1993.
Read 1431 times on American Poems.
You want to know how I spend my time?
I walk the front lawn, pretending
to be weeding. You ought to know
I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling
clumps of clover from the flower beds: in fact
I'm looking for courage, for some evidence
my... (Read full poem)
7. "What says the sea, little shell?" - written by Stephen Crane
From War is Kind & Other Lines.
Published in 1899.
Read 5094 times on American Poems.
"What says the sea, little shell?
What says the sea?
Long has our brother been silent to us,
Kept his message for the ships,
Awkward ships, stupid ships."
"The sea bids you mourn, O Pines,
Sing low in the moonlight.
He sends tale of the... (Read full poem)
8. What Work Is - written by Philip Levine
Read 3550 times on American Poems.
We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is--if you're
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you. This is about waiting,
shifting from one foot to... (Read full poem)
9. Dream Song 59: Henry's Meditation in the Kremlin - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 601 times on American Poems.
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda
in a land no crueller, and over the walls
to domes & river look
from Great John's belfry, Ivan-Veliky,
whose thirty-one are still
to hail who storms no father's throne. Bell, book
& cradle rule,... (Read full poem)
10. The Sun in reigning to the West - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1283 times on American Poems.
The Sun in reigning to the West
Makes not as much of sound
As Cart of man in road below
Adroitly turning round
That Whiffletree of Amethyst(Read full poem)
11. Seascape With Sun And Eagle - written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Read 2558 times on American Poems.
Freer
than most birds
an eagle flies up
over San Francisco
freer than most places
soars high up
floats and glides high up
in the still
open spaces
flown from the mountains
floated down
far over ocean
where the sunset has begun
a mirror of... (Read full poem)
12. I went to thank Her - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2405 times on American Poems.
I went to thank Her --
But She Slept --
Her Bed -- a funneled Stone --
With Nosegays at the Head and Foot --
That Travellers -- had thrown --
Who went to thank Her --
But She Slept --
'Twas Short -- to cross the Sea --
To look upon Her like --... (Read full poem)
13. Cotton Song - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1768 times on American Poems.
Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
come now, hewit! roll away!
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
But lets not wait for it.
God's body's got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll,... (Read full poem)
14. An Embroidery - written by Denise Levertov
From Poems 1968-1972.
Published in 1988.
Read 806 times on American Poems.
Rose Red's hair is brown as fur
and shines in firelight as she prepares
supper of honey and apples, curds and whey,
for the bear, and leaves it ready
on the hearth-stone.
Rose White's grey eyes
look into the dark forest.
Rose Red's cheeks are... (Read full poem)
15. The Speed Of Light - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 1664 times on American Poems.
So gradual in those summers was the going
of the age it seemed that the long days setting out
when the stars faded over the mountains were not
leaving us even as the birds woke in full song and the dew
glittered in the webs it appeared... (Read full poem)
16. The Rat's Tight Schedule - written by Russell Edson
Read 1464 times on American Poems.
A man stumbled on some rat droppings.
Hey, who put those there? That's dangerous, he said.
His wife said, those are pieces of a rat.
Wait, he's coming apart, he's all over the floor, said the
husband.
He can't help it; you don't think he... (Read full poem)
17. Dream Song 75: Turning it over, considering - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 1001 times on American Poems.
Turning it over, considering, like a madman
Henry put forth a book.
No harm resulted from this.
Neither the menstruating stars (nor man) was moved
at once.
Bare dogs drew closer for a second look
and performed their friendly operations... (Read full poem)
18. There is another sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 186903 times on American Poems.
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where... (Read full poem)
19. Suzanne - written by William Carlos Williams
From The Clouds.
Published in 1948.
Read 2924 times on American Poems.
Brother Paul! look!
—but he rushes to a different
window.
The moon!
I heard shrieks and thought:
What's that?
That's just Suzanne
talking to the moon!
Pounding on the window
with both fists:
Paul! Paul!
—and talking to the... (Read full poem)
20. Water - written by Robert Lowell
Read 8136 times on American Poems.
It was a Maine lobster town—
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands,
and left dozens of bleak
white frame houses stuck
like oyster shells
on a hill of rock,
and below us, the sea lapped
the raw little... (Read full poem)
21. The Water's Chant - written by Philip Levine
Read 543 times on American Poems.
Seven years ago I went into
the High Sierras stunned by the desire
to die. For hours I stared into a clear
mountain stream that fell down
over speckled rocks, and then I
closed my eyes and prayed that when
I opened them I would be gone
and... (Read full poem)
22. There is a word - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 28338 times on American Poems.
There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man --
It hurls its barbed syllables
And is mute again --
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted Brother
Gave his breath away.
Wherever runs the breathless sun... (Read full poem)
23. If He were living -- dare I ask -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1401 times on American Poems.
If He were living -- dare I ask --
And how if He be dead --
And so around the Words I went --
Of meeting them -- afraid --
I hinted Changes -- Lapse of Time --
The Surfaces of Years --
I touched with Caution -- lest they crack --
And show me to my... (Read full poem)
24. Flanders - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1773 times on American Poems.
FLANDERS, the name of a place, a country of people,
Spells itself with letters, is written in books.
“Where is Flanders?” was asked one time,
Flanders known only to those who lived there
And milked cows and made cheese and spoke the home... (Read full poem)
25. The Plowboy - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 2452 times on American Poems.
AFTER the last red sunset glimmer,
Black on the line of a low hill rise,
Formed into moving shadows, I saw
A plowboy and two horses lined against the gray,
Plowing in the dusk the last furrow.
The turf had a gleam of brown,
And smell of soil was in... (Read full poem)
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