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The term "back porch" has been searched for 64 times on the American Poems site since November 4th, 2004.
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1. In Faith - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 590 times on American Poems.
When the soft sweet wind o' the south went by,
I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye;
And out where the robin sang his song,
We lived and loved, while the days were long.
In the sweet, sweet eves, when the moon swung high,
We wandered... (Read full poem)
2. Back Yard - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2819 times on American Poems.
Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain to-night.
An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an
accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next... (Read full poem)
3. Talking to Grief - written by Denise Levertov
Read 2602 times on American Poems.
Ah, Grief, I should not treat you
like a homeless dog
who comes to the back door
for a crust, for a meatless bone.
I should trust you.
I should coax you
into the house and give you
your own corner,
a worn mat to lie on,
your own water... (Read full poem)
5. Jet - written by Tony Hoagland
Read 2424 times on American Poems.
Sometimes I wish I were still out
on the back porch, drinking jet fuel
with the boys, getting louder and louder
as the empty cans drop out of our paws
like booster rockets falling back to Earth
and we soar up into the summer stars.
Summer.... (Read full poem)
6. Last Words - written by Chris Forhan
Read 559 times on American Poems.
The night sky's a black stretch limo, boss in the back
behind tinted glass. You could say that.
Down here's a dungeon, up there's the glittering
ring of keys in the sentry's fist. The self
exists. Beauty too. But they're elsewhere.
You... (Read full poem)
7. Drab Habitation of Whom? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1329 times on American Poems.
Drab Habitation of Whom?
Tabernacle or Tomb --
Or Dome of Worm --
Or Porch of Gnome --
Or some Elf's Catacomb?(Read full poem)
8. A Musician's Wife - written by Weldon Kees
Read 1015 times on American Poems.
Between the visits to the shock ward
The doctors used to let you play
On the old upright Baldwin
Donated by a former patient
Who is said to be quite stable now.
And all day long you played Chopin,
Badly and hauntingly, when you weren't
Screaming... (Read full poem)
9. The House - written by Philip Levine
Read 651 times on American Poems.
This poem has a door, a locked door,
and curtains drawn against the day,
but at night the lights come on, one
in each room, and the neighbors swear
they hear music and the sound of dancing.
These days the neighbors will swear
to anything, but... (Read full poem)
10. Womanhood - written by Catherine Anderson
From The Work of Hands.
Published in 1983.
Read 2124 times on American Poems.
She slides over
the hot upholstery
of her mother's car,
this schoolgirl of fifteen
who loves humming & swaying
with the radio.
Her entry into womanhood
will be like all the other girls'—
a cigarette and a joke,
as she strides up with the... (Read full poem)
11. 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)
12. Summons - written by Robert Francis
Read 921 times on American Poems.
Keep me from going to sleep too soon
Or if I go to sleep too soon
Come wake me up. Come any hour
Of night. Come whistling up the road.
Stomp on the porch. Bang on the door.
Make me get out of bed and come
And let you in and light a... (Read full poem)
13. The Something - written by Charles Simic
From Walking the Black Cat.
Published in 1999.
Read 1207 times on American Poems.
Here come my night thoughts
On crutches,
Returning from studying the heavens.
What they thought about
Stayed the same,
Stayed immense and incomprehensible.
My mother and father smile at each other
Knowingly above the mantel.
The cat sleeps on, the... (Read full poem)
14. Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams - written by Kenneth Koch
Read 1680 times on American Poems.
1
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.
2
We laughed at the hollyhocks together
and then I sprayed them with... (Read full poem)
15. Block - written by Hayden Carruth
Read 879 times on American Poems.
Right up there this side the Five Chimneys Corners
about a mile south the Oneida line, this goddamn
granddaddy sugar maple block I tell you it's
what you might call a real out-size block a old-time
ball-busting son of a bitch of a... (Read full poem)
16. In Bertram's Garden - written by Donald Justice
Read 2524 times on American Poems.
Jane looks down at her organdy skirt
As if it somehow were the thing disgraced,
For being there, on the floor, in the dirt,
And she catches it up about her waist,
Smooths it out along one hip,
And pulls it over the crumpled slip.
On the porch,... (Read full poem)
17. The Old Lowe House, Staten Island - written by Alan Seeger
Read 399 times on American Poems.
Another prospect pleased the builder's eye,
And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)
Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes
When first these gables rose against the sky.
Relic of a romantic taste gone by,
This stately monument alone... (Read full poem)
18. Five A.M. - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Death & Fame: Last Poems.
Published in 1996.
Read 7737 times on American Poems.
Elan that lifts me above the clouds
into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
Breath transmuted into words
Transmuted back to breath
in one hundred two hundred years
nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries
of cadenced breathing... (Read full poem)
19. Dream Song 106: 28 July - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 720 times on American Poems.
28 July
Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise
delight fuller than he can ready sing
or studiously say,
on hearing that the year had swung to pause
and culminated in an abundant thing,
came his... (Read full poem)
20. Any Night - written by Philip Levine
Read 621 times on American Poems.
Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine,
the yellowing ash, all the trees
are gone, and I was older than
all of them. I am older than the moon,
than the stars that fill my plate,
than the unseen planets that huddle
together here at the end of a... (Read full poem)
23. Magpiety - written by Philip Levine
Read 512 times on American Poems.
You pull over to the shoulder
of the two-lane
road and sit for a moment wondering
where you were going
in such a hurry. The valley is burned
out, the oaks
dream day and night of rain
that never comes.
At noon or... (Read full poem)
24. Siren - written by Louise Gluck
Read 2352 times on American Poems.
I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress.
I didn't want to go to Chicago with you.
I wanted to marry you, I wanted
Your wife to suffer.
I wanted her life to be like a play
In which all the parts are sad... (Read full poem)
25. Lizards And Snakes - written by Anthony Hecht
Read 1763 times on American Poems.
On the summer road that ran by our front porch
Lizards and snakes came out to sun.
It was hot as a stove out there, enough to scorch
A buzzard's foot. Still, it was fun
To lie in the dust and spy on them. Near but remote,... (Read full poem)
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