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The term "o blues" has been searched for 730 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. The Blues - written by Langston Hughes
From The Langston Huges Reader.
Read 23533 times on American Poems.
When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry-
That's the blues.
When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!(Read full poem)
2. The Weary Blues - written by Langston Hughes
Read 35720 times on American Poems.
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway . . .
He did a lazy sway . . .
To... (Read full poem)
3. Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2992 times on American Poems.
IT’S a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes
The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts.
The banjo tickles and titters too awful.
The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
Ship... (Read full poem)
4. Blue Winter - written by Robert Francis
Read 1050 times on American Poems.
Winter uses all the blues there are.
One shade of blue for water, one for ice,
Another blue for shadows over snow.
The clear or cloudy sky uses blue twice-
Both different blues. And hills row after row
Are colored blue according to how... (Read full poem)
5. I'm A Fool To Love You - written by Cornelius Eady
From The Autobiography of a Jukebox.
Published in 1997.
Read 2539 times on American Poems.
Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,
Some type of supernatural creature.
My mother would tell you, if she could,
About her life with my father,
A strange and sometimes cruel gentleman.
She would tell you about the choices
A young black... (Read full poem)
6. Father Death Blues (Don't Grow Old, Part V) - written by Allen Ginsberg
Published in 1976.
Read 8163 times on American Poems.
Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going
Father Death, Don't cry any more
Mama's there, underneath the floor
Brother Death, please mind the store
Old Aunty Death Don't hide your... (Read full poem)
7. The Blues - written by William Matthews
Read 666 times on American Poems.
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet
and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons?
I had pieces to learn by heart, but at twelve
you think the heart and memory are different.
"'It's a poor sort of memory that only works
backwards,' the... (Read full poem)
8. Another Day - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2713 times on American Poems.
having the low down blues and going
into a restraunt to eat.
you sit at a table.
the waitress smiles at you.
she's dumpy. her ass is too big.
she radiates kindess and symphaty.
live with her 3 months and a man would no real agony.
o.k., you'll tip... (Read full poem)
9. A Poem For Myself - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 2563 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)
10. Rain - written by Jack Gilbert
From Views of Jeopardy.
Published in 1962.
Read 2677 times on American Poems.
Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.
I... (Read full poem)
11. Alone - written by Maya Angelou
Read 27441 times on American Poems.
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all... (Read full poem)
12. Implosions - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 4452 times on American Poems.
The world's
not wanton
only wild and wavering
I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by
Take the word
of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
your dark scribbled flags
but take
my... (Read full poem)
13. Swing Shift Blues - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 540 times on American Poems.
What is better than leaving a bar
in the middle of the afternoon
besides staying in it or not
having gone into it in the first place
because you had a decent woman to be with?
The air smells particularly fresh
after the stale beer and piss... (Read full poem)
14. Somebody - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 5738 times on American Poems.
god I got the sad blue blues,
this woman sat there and she
said
are you really Charles
Bukowski?
and I said
forget that
I do not feel good
I've got the sad sads
all I want to do is
fuck you
and she... (Read full poem)
15. Aftermath - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 2159 times on American Poems.
I learnt to write to you in happier days,
And every letter was a piece I chipped
From off my heart, a fragment newly clipped
From the mosaic of life; its blues and grays,
Its throbbing reds, I gave to earn your praise.
To make a pavement for... (Read full poem)
16. Vaudeville Dancer - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1361 times on American Poems.
ELSIE FLIMMERWON, you got a job now with a jazz outfit in vaudeville.
The houses go wild when you finish the act shimmying a fast shimmy to The Livery Stable Blues.
It is long ago, Elsie Flimmerwon, I saw your mother over a washtub in a grape... (Read full poem)
18. Po' Boy Blues - written by Langston Hughes
Read 27273 times on American Poems.
When I was home de
Sunshine seemed like gold.
When I was home de
Sunshine seemed like gold.
Since I come up North de
Whole damn world's turned cold.
I was a good boy,
Never done no wrong.
Yes, I was a good boy,
Never done no wrong,
But this world... (Read full poem)
19. Winter Milk - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1669 times on American Poems.
THE MILK drops on your chin, Helga,
Must not interfere with the cranberry red of your cheeks
Nor the sky winter blue of your eyes.
Let your mammy keep hands off the chin.
This is a high holy spatter of white on the reds and blues.
Before the... (Read full poem)
20. Deaf Rush Limbaugh's Macaronic Blues - written by Daniel Nester
From http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/nester.html.
Read 400 times on American Poems.
Soon I'll hear your voices, people,
and you'll sound like Donald Duck.
I'll hear every car horn honk,
every plink and plunk and plonk.
And you'll sound like Donald Duck--
one voice, indistinguishable, under God.
Every plink and plunk and... (Read full poem)
21. Orpheus Plays The Bronx - written by Reginald Shepherd
Read 499 times on American Poems.
When I was ten (no, younger
than that), my mother tried
to kill herself (without the facts
there can't be faith). One death
or another every day, Tanqueray bottles
halo the bed and she won't wake up
all weekend. In the myth book's... (Read full poem)
22. Band Concert - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2073 times on American Poems.
BAND concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms. And gigglers, God knows, gigglers, rivaling the pony whinnies of the Livery Stable Blues.
Cowboy... (Read full poem)
23. The Afterlife: Letter To Sam Hamill - written by Hayden Carruth
Read 944 times on American Poems.
You may think it strange, Sam, that I'm writing
a letter in these circumstances. I thought
it strange too--the first time. But there's
a misconception I was laboring under, and you
are too, viz. that the imagination in your
vicinity is free... (Read full poem)
24. The Thin People - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1957.
Read 6524 times on American Poems.
They are always with us, the thin people
Meager of dimension as the gray people
On a movie-screen. They
Are unreal, we say:
It was only in a movie, it was only
In a war making evil headlines when we
Were small that they famished and
Grew so lean... (Read full poem)
25. A Study In Feeling - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Leslie’s Monthly.
Published in 1902.
Read 293 times on American Poems.
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods,
You have to be, to understand sonatas and etudes.
To execute pianos and to fiddle with success,
With sympathy and feeling you must fairly effervesce;
It was so with Paganini, Remenzi and... (Read full poem)
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