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2. 'Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 20109 times on American Poems.
'Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe --
'Tis dimmer than a Lace --
No stature has it, like a Fog
When you approach the place --
Nor any voice imply it here
Or intimate it there
A spirit -- how doth it accost --
What function hat the Air?
This limitless... (Read full poem)
3. Poem To Poetry - written by Bill Knott
Read 5642 times on American Poems.
Poetry,
you are an electric,
a magic, field--like the space
between a sleepwalker's outheld arms!(Read full poem)
4. April 19 - written by David Lehman
Read 2902 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)
5. Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying - written by Jack Gilbert
From Monolithos.
Published in 1962.
Read 4504 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)
6. Thing Language - written by Jack Spicer
Read 1515 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)
7. Short Order - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3938 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)
8. Examples (August 27) - written by David Lehman
Read 6835 times on American Poems.
The last Campbell's tomato soup can
of the twentieth century is going to
the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
That is an example of a sentence
Another is this from a CEO in Fortune
"You die in either case, but this way you get
to do it... (Read full poem)
9. Sonnet VII - written by Alan Seeger
Read 3094 times on American Poems.
To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound
Whose stations Beauty's bright examples are,
As of a silken city famed afar
Over the sands for wealth and holy ground,
Came the report of one -- a woman crowned
With all perfection, blemishless and... (Read full poem)
10. Sympathy - written by Eileen Myles
From American Poetry Review and Best American Poetry 2002.
Read 1114 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. The Poet's Corner - written by Laura Riding Jackson
Read 1987 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)
12. Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 896 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)
13. The Poet - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1954.
Read 1666 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)
15. The Secret Of Poetry - written by Jon Anderson
Read 1307 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)
16. Dream On - written by James Tate
Read 10909 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)
17. Poetry - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2372 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)
19. A Display Of Mackeral - written by Mark Doty
Read 3957 times on American Poems.
They lie in parallel rows,
on ice, head to tail,
each a foot of luminosity
barred with black bands,
which divide the scales'
radiant sections
like seams of lead
in a Tiffany window.
Iridescent, watery
prismatics: think abalone,
the wildly... (Read full poem)
20. To see the Summer Sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 35891 times on American Poems.
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --(Read full poem)
21. To Plath, To Sexton - written by Jean Valentine
From The River At Wolf.
Published in 1992.
Read 576 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)
22. Long I Thought that Knowledge. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 11752 times on American Poems.
LONG I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me—O if I could but obtain
knowledge!
Then my lands engrossed me—Lands of the prairies, Ohio’s land, the southern
savannas,
engrossed me—For them I would live—I... (Read full poem)
23. 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 969 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)
24. Interview - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3079 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. There is no Frigate like a Book - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 8860 times on American Poems.
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry --
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll --
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.(Read full poem)
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