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The term "parental pressure poems" has been searched for 22 times on the American Poems site since February 21st, 2006.
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1. The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Leslie’s Monthly.
Published in 1905.
Read 304 times on American Poems.
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day.
And then, of a sudden, it up and bust,
And all that was left was a mound of dust?
Holmes—O. W.—told it well
In a rhyme of... (Read full poem)
2. Here I Am ... - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4352 times on American Poems.
drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end of my 2nd bottle
of wine, I have typed from a dozen to 15 pages of
poesy
an old man
maddened for the flesh of young girls in this
dwindling twilight
liver gone
kidneys going
pancrea pooped
top-floor blood pressure... (Read full poem)
3. Inscription. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1971 times on American Poems.
SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest—namely,
One’s-Self—that wondrous thing a simple, separate person. That, for the use of
the
New World, I sing.
Man’s physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing.... (Read full poem)
4. Insomniac - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1961.
Read 8746 times on American Poems.
The night is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole --
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
Under the eyes of the stars and the moon's rictus
He suffers... (Read full poem)
5. Japan - written by Billy Collins
Read 3299 times on American Poems.
Today I pass the time reading
a favorite haiku,
saying the few words over and over.
It feels like eating
the same small, perfect grape
again and again.
I walk through the house reciting it
and leave its letters falling
through the air of every... (Read full poem)
6. My Father's Love Letters - written by Yusef Komunyakaa
Read 3798 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)
7. All That Love Asks - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1283 times on American Poems.
All that I ask, 'says Love, 'is just to stand
And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;
For in their depths lies largest Paradise.
Yet, if perchance one pressure of thy hand
Be granted me, then joy I thought complete
Were still more... (Read full poem)
8. A Blue Valentine - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 4428 times on American Poems.
(For Aline)
Monsignore,
Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus,
Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni,
Now of the delightful Court of Heaven,
I respectfully salute you,
I genuflect
And I kiss your episcopal ring.
It is not,... (Read full poem)
9. After Apple-Picking - written by Robert Frost
From North of Boston.
Published in 1914.
Read 32342 times on American Poems.
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter... (Read full poem)
10. Telephoning In Mexican Sunlight - written by Galway Kinnell
From Imperfect Thirst.
Published in 1994.
Read 2240 times on American Poems.
Talking with my beloved in New York
I stood at the outdoor public telephone
in Mexican sunlight, in my purple shirt.
Someone had called it a man/woman
shirt. The phrase irked me. But then
I remembered that Rainer Maria
Rilke, who until he was seven... (Read full poem)
11. Landing - written by Eleanor Wilner
From Maya.
Published in 1979.
Read 782 times on American Poems.
It was a pure white cloud that hung there
in the blue, or a jellyfish on a waveless
sea, suspended high above us; we were
the creatures in the weeds below.
It seemed so effortless in its suspense,
perfectly out of time and out of place
like the... (Read full poem)
12. From Pent-up Aching Rivers. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2714 times on American Poems.
FROM pent-up, aching rivers;
From that of myself, without which I were nothing;
From what I am determin’d to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men;
From my own voice resonant—singing the phallus,
Singing the song of... (Read full poem)
13. Spontaneous Me. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 6645 times on American Poems.
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature,
The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,
The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
The hill-side whiten’d with blossoms of the mountain ash,
The same, late in autumn—the hues of... (Read full poem)
14. Place for a Third - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 3159 times on American Poems.
Nothing to say to all those marriages!
She had made three herself to three of his.
The score was even for them, three to three.
But come to die she found she cared so much:
She thought of children in a burial row;
Three children in a burial row... (Read full poem)
15. 8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain - written by Jim Carroll
Read 3113 times on American Poems.
1/
Genius is not a generous thing
In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover
And it resents fame
With bitter vengeance
Pills and powdres only placate it awhile
Then it puts you in a place where the planet's poles... (Read full poem)
16. To The Whore Who Took My Poems - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 26292 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)
17. if you like my poems let them - written by e.e. cummings
Read 80401 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)
18. Her -- "last Poems" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 22368 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)
19. 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)
20. As The Poems Go - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 11283 times on American Poems.
as the poems go into the thousands you
realize that you've created very
little.
it comes down to the rain, the sunlight,
the traffic, the nights and the days of the
years, the faces.
leaving this will be easier than living
it, typing one more line... (Read full poem)
21. The Spring - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1965.
Read 19630 times on American Poems.
(After Rilke)
Spring has returned! Everything has returned!
The earth, just like a schoolgirl, memorizes
Poems, so many poems. ... Look, she has learned
So many famous poems, she has earned so many prizes!
Teacher was strict. We delighted in the... (Read full poem)
22. Judson Stoddard - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 8894 times on American Poems.
On a mountain top above the clouds
That streamed like a sea below me
I said that peak is the thought of Budda,
And that one is the prayer of Jesus,
And this one is the dream of Plato,
And that one there the song of Dante,
And this is Kant and... (Read full poem)
23. Thought. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 10694 times on American Poems.
OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé;
Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were not less complete than the preceding
poems;
As if those shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as lasting as... (Read full poem)
24. The Planet On The Table - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 6305 times on American Poems.
Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
They were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that he liked.
Other makings of the sun
Were waste and welter
And the ripe shrub writhed.
His self and the sun were one
And his poems, although makings of... (Read full poem)
25. Endnote - written by Hayden Carruth
From Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995.
Published in 1996.
Read 3881 times on American Poems.
The great poems of
our elders in many
tongues we struggled
to comprehend who
are now content with
mystery simple
and profound you
in the night your
breath your body
orbit of time and
the moment you
Phosphorus and
Hesper a dark... (Read full poem)
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