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The term "parents and the elderly" has been searched for 50 times on the American Poems site since November 12th, 2004.
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1. The Fall - written by Russell Edson
Read 2467 times on American Poems.
There was a man who found two leaves and came
indoors holding them out saying to his parents
that he was a tree.
To which they said then go into the yard and do
not grow in the living room as your roots may
ruin the carpet.
He said I was... (Read full poem)
2. His voice decrepit was with Joy -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1301 times on American Poems.
His voice decrepit was with Joy --
Her words did totter so
How old the News of Love must be
To make Lips elderly
That purled a moment since with Glee --
Is it Delight or Woe --
Or Terror -- that do decorate
This livid interview --(Read full poem)
3. Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) - written by William Matthews
Read 610 times on American Poems.
The lump of coal my parents teased
I'd find in my Christmas stocking
turned out each year to be an orange,
for I was their sunshine.
Now I have one C. gave me,
a dense node of sleeping fire.
I keep it where I read and write.
"You're on chummy terms... (Read full poem)
4. The Seeing Eye - written by Ezra Pound
Read 7065 times on American Poems.
The small dogs look at the big dogs;
They observe unwieldy dimensions
And curious imperfections of odor.
Here is the formal male group:
The young men look upon their seniors,
They consider the elderly mind
And observe its inexplicable... (Read full poem)
5. The Parent - written by Ogden Nash
Read 6862 times on American Poems.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.(Read full poem)
6. Hysteria - written by T.S. Eliot
From Prufrock and Other Observations.
Published in 1917.
Read 5195 times on American Poems.
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth
were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at
each momentary recovery, lost finally in the... (Read full poem)
7. 1954 - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1926 times on American Poems.
Then dirt scared me, because of the dirt
he had put on her face. And her training bra
scared me—the newspapers, morning and evening,
kept saying it, training bra,
as if the cups of it had been calling
the breasts up—he buried her in... (Read full poem)
8. Before Sleep - written by Catherine Anderson
Read 2866 times on American Poems.
I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.
I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these... (Read full poem)
9. April 26 - written by David Lehman
Read 675 times on American Poems.
When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what my parents
spoke at home(Read full poem)
10. Sadness - written by Donald Justice
Read 8777 times on American Poems.
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Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,
Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?
What great melancholies were loosed among our swings!
As before a storm one hears the leaves whispering
And marks each small change in the atmosphere,
So... (Read full poem)
11. A Sight in Camp. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3750 times on American Poems.
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,
As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,
As slow I walk in the cool fresh air, the path near by the hospital tent,
Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there, untended lying,
Over... (Read full poem)
13. So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2012 times on American Poems.
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,
For I wish to be purged of an urge.
It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,
And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my... (Read full poem)
14. Willie Pennington - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 469 times on American Poems.
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,
For my brothers were strong and beautiful,
While I, the last child of parents who had aged,
Inherited only their residue of power.
But they, my brothers, were eaten up
In the fury of the flesh, which... (Read full poem)
15. X - written by Jean Valentine
Read 527 times on American Poems.
I have decorated this banner to honor my brother.
Our parents did not want his name used publicly
-- from an unnamed child's banner in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky.
I remember looking at you,... (Read full poem)
17. Christmas At The Orphanage - written by Bill Knott
Read 886 times on American Poems.
But if they'd give us toys and twice the stuff most
parents splurge on the average kid, orphans, I submit, need more than enough;
in fact, stacks wrapped with our names nearly hid
the tree: these sparkling allotments yearly
guaranteed a lack... (Read full poem)
18. Yesterday - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 4487 times on American Poems.
My friend says I was not a good son
you understand
I say yes I understand
he says I did not go
to see my parents very often you know
and I say yes I know
even when I was living in the same city he says
maybe I would go there once
a month or maybe... (Read full poem)
19. Fault - written by Ronald Koertge
From Geography of the Forehead.
Published in 2000.
Read 488 times on American Poems.
In the airport bar, I tell my mother not to worry.
No one ever tripped and fell into the San Andreas
Fault. But as she dabs at her dry eyes, I remember
those old movies where the earth does open.
There's always one blonde entomologist,... (Read full poem)
20. Guilty Of Dust - written by Frank Bidart
Published in 1984.
Read 3118 times on American Poems.
up or down from the infinite C E N T E R
B R I M M I N G at the winking rim of time
the voice in my head said
LOVE IS THE DISTANCE
BETWEEN YOU AND WHAT YOU LOVE
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE
*
then I saw the parade of my loves
those... (Read full poem)
21. December 25 - written by David Lehman
Read 875 times on American Poems.
Christmas defeated Chanukah
once again last night
by a margin of three billion dollars
or so, but every time I hear
a Yiddish word like bupkes
in a movie (L.A. Confidential)
or when Oleg Cassini in that new play Jackie
calls a garment a shmatta,... (Read full poem)
22. A Fairly Sad Tale - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 4713 times on American Poems.
I think that I shall never know
Why I am thus, and I am so.
Around me, other girls inspire
In men the rush and roar of fire,
The sweet transparency of glass,
The tenderness of April grass,
The durability of granite;
But me- I don't know how to plan... (Read full poem)
24. Birthday (Autobiography) - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 1534 times on American Poems.
Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me,
A twelve-pound baby with a big head,
Her first, it was plain torture. Finally they used the forceps
And dragged me out, with one prong
In my right eye, and slapped and banged me until I breathed.
I am... (Read full poem)
25. Soliloquy In Circles - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3984 times on American Poems.
Being a father
Is quite a bother.
You are free as air
With time to spare,
You're a fiscal rocket
With change in your pocket,
And then one morn
A child is born.
Your life has been runcible,
Irresponsible.
Like an arrow or a javelin
You've been... (Read full poem)
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