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The term "parental advice in poetry" has been searched for 49 times on the American Poems site since January 21st, 2005.
Search Results: 3 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Poem To Poetry - written by Bill Knott
Read 5643 times on American Poems.
Poetry,
you are an electric,
a magic, field--like the space
between a sleepwalker's outheld arms!(Read full poem)
2. April 19 - written by David Lehman
Read 2905 times on American Poems.
We have too much exhibitionism
and not enough voyeurism
in poetry we have plenty of bass
and not enough treble, more amber
beer than the frat boys can drink but
less red wine than meets the lip
in this beaker of the best Bordeaux,
too much thesis,... (Read full poem)
3. Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying - written by Jack Gilbert
From Monolithos.
Published in 1962.
Read 4512 times on American Poems.
Poetry is a kind of lying,
necessarily. To profit the poet
or beauty. But also in
that truth may be told only so.
Those who, admirably, refuse
to falsify (as those who will not
risk pretensions) are excluded
from saying even so much.
Degas said he... (Read full poem)
4. Thing Language - written by Jack Spicer
Read 1521 times on American Poems.
This ocean, humiliating in its disguises
Tougher than anything.
No one listens to poetry. The ocean
Does not mean to be listened to. A drop
Or crash of water. It means
Nothing.
It
Is bread and butter
Pepper and salt. The death
That young men hope... (Read full poem)
5. Brown Lung - written by Ron Rash
From Eureka Mill.
Published in 1998.
Read 735 times on American Poems.
Sometimes I'd spend the whole night coughing up
what I'd been breathing in all day at work.
I'd sleep in a chair or take a good stiff drink,
anything to get a few hours rest.
The doctor called it asthma and suggested
I find a different line of work... (Read full poem)
6. Short Order - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3940 times on American Poems.
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading,
she said.
yes, yes? I asked.
she's young and pretty, she said.
and? I asked.
she hated your
guts.
then she stretched out on the couch
and pulled off her
boots.
I don't have very good legs,
she... (Read full poem)
7. January 2 - written by David Lehman
Read 503 times on American Poems.
The old war is over the new one has begun
between drivers and pedestrians on a Friday
in New York light is the variable and structure
the content according to Rodrigo Moynihan's
self-portraits at the Robert Miller Gallery where
the painter is... (Read full poem)
8. Superfluous Advice - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 3701 times on American Poems.
Should they whisper false of you.
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.(Read full poem)
9. Advice From The Experts - written by Bill Knott
Read 717 times on American Poems.
I lay down in the empty street and parked
My feet against the gutter's curb while from
The building above a bunch of gawkers perched
Along its ledges urged me don't, don't jump.(Read full poem)
10. Sympathy - written by Eileen Myles
From American Poetry Review and Best American Poetry 2002.
Read 1116 times on American Poems.
She's rubbing his shoulder
and he's reading about
Western birds. There's a scoop
of light just above my knee
it resembles the world, the one I know
a layer of smoke spread thin, a shelf
my mind returns again &
again to the picture
you gave me.... (Read full poem)
11. Neither Bloody nor Bowed - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3059 times on American Poems.
They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.
I see acquaintances and friends
Accumulating dividends,
And making enviable names
In science, art, and parlor games.
But I, despite expert advice,
Keep doing things I think are... (Read full poem)
12. The Poet's Corner - written by Laura Riding Jackson
Read 1990 times on American Poems.
Here where the end of bone is no end of song
And the earth is bedecked with immortality
In what was poetry
And now is pride beside
And nationality,
Here is a battle with no bravery
But if the coward's tongue has gone
Swording his own lusty... (Read full poem)
13. Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 898 times on American Poems.
The first and last time I met
my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at
a protest poetry reading against
some anti-constitutional war in Asia
when some academic son of a bitch,
to test her reputation as a drunk,
gave her a beer glass full of wine
after our... (Read full poem)
14. The Poet - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1954.
Read 1668 times on American Poems.
The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry
His power is his left hand
It is idle weak and precious
His poverty is his wealth, a wealth which may destroy him
like Midas Because it is that laziness which is a form of impatience
And this... (Read full poem)
16. The Secret Of Poetry - written by Jon Anderson
Read 1311 times on American Poems.
When I was lonely, I thought of death.
When I thought of death I was lonely.
I suppose this error will continue.
I shall enter each gray morning
Delighted by frost, which is death,
& the trees that stand alone in mist.
When I met my wife I... (Read full poem)
17. From a Letter from Lesbia - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 5249 times on American Poems.
... So, praise the gods, Catullus is away!
And let me tend you this advice, my dear:
Take any lover that you will, or may,
Except a poet. All of them are queer.
It's just the same- a quarrel or a kiss
Is but a tune to play upon his pipe.
He's... (Read full poem)
18. Dream On - written by James Tate
Read 10924 times on American Poems.
Some people go their whole lives
without ever writing a single poem.
Extraordinary people who don't hesitate
to cut somebody's heart or skull open.
They go to baseball games with the greatest of ease.
and play a few rounds of golf as if it were... (Read full poem)
19. Poetry - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2376 times on American Poems.
it
takes
a lot of
desperation
dissatisfaction
and
disillusion
to
write
a
few
good
poems.
it's not
for
everybody
either to
write
it
or even to
read
it.(Read full poem)
21. Crossing The Water - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 7320 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)
22. To see the Summer Sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 35904 times on American Poems.
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --(Read full poem)
23. To Plath, To Sexton - written by Jean Valentine
From The River At Wolf.
Published in 1992.
Read 578 times on American Poems.
So what use was poetry
to a white empty house?
Wolf, swan, hare,
in by the fire.
And when your tree
crashed through your house,
what use then
was all your power?
It was the use of you.
It was the flower.(Read full poem)
24. Interview - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3083 times on American Poems.
The ladies men admire, I've heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word.
Their candle gives a single light;
They'd rather stay at home at night.
They do not keep awake till three,
Nor read erotic poetry.
They never sanction the impure,
Nor recognize an... (Read full poem)
25. Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry - written by Howard Nemerov
From The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.
Published in 1977.
Read 970 times on American Poems.
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned into pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.
There came a moment that you couldn't tell.
And then they clearly flew instead... (Read full poem)
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