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The term "back in black" has been searched for 63 times on the American Poems site since November 8th, 2004.
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1. The Black Unicorn - written by Audre Lorde
Read 4590 times on American Poems.
The black unicorn is greedy.
The black unicorn is impatient.
'The black unicorn was mistaken
for a shadow or symbol
and taken
through a cold country
where mist painted mockeries
of my fury.
It is not on her lap where the horn rests
but deep in... (Read full poem)
2. Father - written by Philip Levine
Read 1073 times on American Poems.
The long lines of diesels
groan toward evening
carrying off the breath
of the living.
The face of your house
is black,
it is your face, black
and fire bombed
in the first street wars,
a black tooth planted in the earth
of Michigan
and... (Read full poem)
3. Two-Volume Novel - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 2362 times on American Poems.
The sun's gone dim, and
The moon's turned black;
For I loved him, and
He didn't love back.(Read full poem)
4. Daddy - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 47767 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)
5. A Negro Love Song - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 3172 times on American Poems.
Seen my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd huh sigh a little sigh,
Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye,
An' a smile go flittin' by --
Jump back,... (Read full poem)
6. The Arrival Of The Bee Box - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 8626 times on American Poems.
I ordered this, clean wood box
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.
I would say it was the coffin of a midget
Or a square baby
Were there not such a din in it.
The box is locked, it is dangerous.
I have to live with it overnight
And I... (Read full poem)
7. A Poem For Myself - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 2559 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. Infanta - written by Ioanna Carlsen
Read 561 times on American Poems.
For a moment it flashed
through me, I thought I
remembered being someone before now,
the her who was me
hurt, felt,
embedded like a whorl in wood.
The photograph is black and white,
but I know the dress was amber--
she bells out toward... (Read full poem)
9. Crossing The Water - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 7321 times on American Poems.
Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.
A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and... (Read full poem)
10. Black riders came from the sea. - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 29994 times on American Poems.
Black riders came from the sea.
There was clang and clang of spear and shield,
And clash and clash of hoof and heel,
Wild shouts and the wave of hair
In the rush upon the wind:
Thus the ride of sin.(Read full poem)
11. Merry-Go-Round - written by Langston Hughes
Read 33672 times on American Poems.
COLORED CHILD AT CARNIVAL
Where is the Jim Crow section
On this merry-go-round,
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from
White and colored
Can't sit side by side.
Down South on the train
There's a Jim Crow car.
On the bus... (Read full poem)
12. Cutting Greens - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1036 times on American Poems.
curling them around
i hold their bodies in obscene embrace
thinking of everything but kinship.
collards and kale
strain against each strange other
away from my kissmaking hand and
the iron bedpot.
the pot is black.
the cutting board is... (Read full poem)
13. Sonnet 104 - A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece - written by John Berryman
From Sonnets To Chris.
Published in 1947.
Read 1743 times on American Poems.
A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece,
Diminutive, but room enough . . like clay
To finger eager on some torrid day . .
Who'd throw her black hair back, and hang, and tease.
Never, not once in all one's horny lease
To'have had a demi-lay, a... (Read full poem)
14. The Black Berry -- wears a Thorn in his side -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1967 times on American Poems.
The Black Berry -- wears a Thorn in his side --
But no Man heard Him cry --
He offers His Berry, just the same
To Partridge -- and to Boy --
He sometimes holds upon the Fence --
Or struggles to a Tree --
Or clasps a Rock, with both His Hands --
But... (Read full poem)
15. Dream Song 111: I miss him. When I get back to camp - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 813 times on American Poems.
I miss him. When I get back to camp
I'll dig him up. Well, he can prop & watch,
can't he, pink or blue,
and I will talk to him. I miss him. Slams,
grand or any, aren't for the tundra much.
One face-card will do.
It's marvellous how four... (Read full poem)
16. The Small Hours - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 4166 times on American Poems.
No more my little song comes back;
And now of nights I lay
My head on down, to watch the black
And wait the unfailing gray.
Oh, sad are winter nights, and slow;
And sad's a song that's dumb;
And sad it is to lie and know
Another dawn will come.(Read full poem)
17. Three little birds in a row - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 11656 times on American Poems.
Three little birds in a row
Sat musing.
A man passed near that place.
Then did the little birds nudge each other.
They said, "He thinks he can sing."
They threw back their heads to laugh.
With quaint countenances
They regarded him.
They were very... (Read full poem)
19. Death Of The Kapowsin Tavern - written by Richard Hugo
From Death of the Kapowsin Tavern.
Published in 1965.
Read 485 times on American Poems.
I can't ridge it back again from char.
Not one board left. Only ash a cat explores
and shattered glass smoked black and strung
about from the explosion I believe
in the reports. The white school up for sale
for years, most homes abandoned to the... (Read full poem)
20. Buttons - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 3901 times on American Poems.
I HAVE been watching the war map slammed up for
advertising in front of the newspaper office.
Buttons--red and yellow buttons--blue and black buttons--
are shoved back and forth across the map.
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
Climbs a... (Read full poem)
21. Early In The Morning - written by Li-Young Lee
From Rose.
Published in 1986.
Read 1388 times on American Poems.
While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
for breakfast, before the birds,
my mother glides an ivory comb
through her hair, heavy
and black as calligrapher's... (Read full poem)
22. Walking in the sky - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 6686 times on American Poems.
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered a radiant form.
Then his steps were eager;
Bowed he devoutly.
"My Lord," said he.
But the spirit knew him not.(Read full poem)
23. The Panic Bird - written by Robert Phillips
Published in 1995.
Read 485 times on American Poems.
just flew inside my chest. Some
days it lights inside my brain,
but today it's in my bonehouse,
rattling ribs like a birdcage.
If I saw it coming, I'd fend it
off with machete or baseball bat.
Or grab its scrawny hackled neck,
wring it like a wet... (Read full poem)
24. The Gift - written by David Lehman
Read 2914 times on American Poems.
"He gave her class. She gave him sex."
-- Katharine Hepburn on Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
He gave her money. She gave him head.
He gave her tips on "aggressive growth" mutual funds. She gave him a red rose
and a little statue... (Read full poem)
25. Letters To Dead Imagists - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 1723 times on American Poems.
EMILY DICKINSON:
You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,
The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks,
And how God plays around a back yard garden.
STEVIE CRANE:
War is kind and we never knew the kindness of war till
you came;
Nor the black... (Read full poem)
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