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The term "concrete poems" has been searched for 8423 times on the American Poems site since March 24th, 2004.
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1. Making Love To Concrete - written by Audre Lorde
From The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, pub. by W.W. Norton & Co..
Published in 1993.
Read 4425 times on American Poems.
An upright abutment in the mouth
of the Willis Avenue bridge
a beige Honda leaps the divider
like a steel gazelle inescapable
sleek leather boots on the pavement
rat-a-tat-tat best intentions
going down for the third time
stuck in the... (Read full poem)
2. Jug - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2135 times on American Poems.
THE SHALE and water thrown together so-so first of all,
Then a potter’s hand on the wheel and his fingers shaping the jug; out of the mud a mouth and a handle;
Slimpsy, loose and ready to fall at a touch, fire plays on it, slow fire coaxing all... (Read full poem)
3. Divorce - written by Jack Gilbert
From Views of Jeopardy.
Published in 1962.
Read 2939 times on American Poems.
Woke up suddenly thinking I heard crying.
Rushed through the dark house.
Stopped, remembering. Stood looking
out at bright moonlight on concrete.(Read full poem)
4. Two Quatrains - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 519 times on American Poems.
I
As eons of incalculable strife
Are in the vision of one moment caught,
So are the common, concrete things of life
Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.
II
We shriek to live, but no man ever lives
Till he has rid the ghost... (Read full poem)
5. Summer Holiday - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 2209 times on American Poems.
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of
bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-
ered-up cities
Will be stains of rust on... (Read full poem)
6. Mr. Mine - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4754 times on American Poems.
Notice how he has numbered the blue veins
in my breast. Moreover there are ten freckles.
Now he goes left. Now he goes right.
He is buiding a city, a city of flesh.
He's an industrialist. He has starved in cellars
and, ladies and gentlemen, he's... (Read full poem)
7. Dream Song 76: Henry's Confession - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 1220 times on American Poems.
Nothin very bad happen to me lately.
How you explain that? —I explain that, Mr Bones,
terms o' your bafflin odd sobriety.
Sober as man can get, no girls, no telephones,
what could happen bad to Mr Bones?
—If life is a handkerchief... (Read full poem)
8. The Bells - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4489 times on American Poems.
Today the circus poster
is scabbing off the concrete wall
and the children have forgotten
if they knew at all.
Father, do you remember?
Only the sound remains,
the distant thump of the good elephants,
the voice of the ancient lions
and how the... (Read full poem)
9. The Summer I Was Sixteen - written by Geraldine Connolly
From Province of Fire.
Published in 1998.
Read 1294 times on American Poems.
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which
we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.
We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.
Shaking water off our limbs, we lifted
up from ladder rungs across the... (Read full poem)
10. My Father's Love Letters - written by Yusef Komunyakaa
Read 3778 times on American Poems.
On Fridays he'd open a can of Jax
After coming home from the mill,
& ask me to write a letter to my mother
Who sent postcards of desert flowers
Taller than men. He would beg,
Promising to never beat her
Again. Somehow I was happy
She had gone, &... (Read full poem)
11. I Remember Galileo - written by Gerald Stern
Read 1358 times on American Poems.
I remember Galileo describing the mind
as a piece of paper blown around by the wind,
and I loved the sight of it sticking to a tree,
or jumping into the backseat of a car,
and for years I watched paper leap through my cities;
but yesterday I saw... (Read full poem)
12. Ballplayer - written by Evie Shockley
Read 896 times on American Poems.
i cop a squat on a squared-off log,
to watch you ball on the community center court.
butt numb, i shift my weight
and shake mosquitos from my ankles,
but never take my eyes off the game.
yours follow the orange orb, your pupils
twin, brown moons... (Read full poem)
13. Dickeyville Grotto - written by Mark Doty
Read 589 times on American Poems.
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all
the many designs out of his head.
Father Wilerus,
transplanted Alsatian,
built around
this plain Wisconsin
redbrick church
a coral-reef en-
crustation--meant,
the brochure says,
to... (Read full poem)
14. Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives - written by William Carlos Williams
From Sour Grapes.
Published in 1921.
Read 2598 times on American Poems.
Men with picked voices chant the names
of cities in a huge gallery: promises
that pull through descending stairways
to a deep rumbling.
The rubbing feet
of those coming to be carried quicken a
grey pavement into... (Read full poem)
15. Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning - written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Read 7248 times on American Poems.
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight
Beyond the ledges of concrete
restaurants fall into dreams
with candlelight couples
Lost Alexandria still burns
in a billion lightbulbs
Lives cross lives
idling at stoplights
Beyond the cloverleaf... (Read full poem)
16. Black Stone On Top Of Nothing - written by Philip Levine
Read 588 times on American Poems.
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon
around the apartment building covering the front door.
He puts down his cane, removes his greasy fedora, and begins
to untangle the mess. His neighbors line up behind him... (Read full poem)
17. Even This - written by Reginald Shepherd
Read 610 times on American Poems.
At that time I didn't understand
snow, the absence inside July,
water and what holds the water
in. Heard "It takes more than a forest
to make a tree" in no one's voice. By then
the word meridian was extinct, echo
without a face to place it, make... (Read full poem)
18. Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day - written by Marge Piercy
Read 940 times on American Poems.
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
Forty feet of Corinthian candle
celebrate Pullman embedded
lonely raisin in a cake of concrete.
The Potter Palmers float
in an island parthenon.
Barons of... (Read full poem)
19. Suicide Note - written by Anne Sexton
Read 20524 times on American Poems.
"You speak to me of narcissism but I reply that it is
a matter of my life" - Artaud
"At this time let me somehow bequeath all the leftovers
to my daughters and their daughters" - Anonymous
Better,
despite the worms talking to
the mare's hoof... (Read full poem)
20. Demolition - written by Mark Doty
Read 1211 times on American Poems.
The intact facade's now almost black
in the rain; all day they've torn at the back
of the building, "the oldest concrete structure
in New England," the newspaper said. By afternoon,
when the backhoe claw appears above
three stories of... (Read full poem)
21. To The Whore Who Took My Poems - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 26261 times on American Poems.
some say we should keep personal remorse from the
poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have
my
paintings too, my best ones; its stifling:
are you trying to crush me out... (Read full poem)
22. if you like my poems let them - written by e.e. cummings
Read 80298 times on American Poems.
if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening,a little behind you
then people will say
"Along this road i saw a princess pass
on her way to meet her lover(it was
toward nightfall)with tall and ignorant servants."(Read full poem)
23. Cartographies of Silence - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 3821 times on American Poems.
1.
A conversation begins
with a lie. and each
speaker of the so-called common language feels
the ice-floe split, the drift apart
as if powerless, as if up against
a force of nature
A poem can being
with a lie. And be torn up.... (Read full poem)
24. Her -- "last Poems" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 22339 times on American Poems.
Her -- "last Poems" --
Poets -- ended --
Silver -- perished -- with her Tongue --
Not on Record -- bubbled other,
Flute -- or Woman --
So divine --
Not unto its Summer -- Morning
Robin -- uttered Half the Tune --
Gushed too free for the Adoring... (Read full poem)
25. To see the Summer Sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 35886 times on American Poems.
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --(Read full poem)
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