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The term "rhyming simile poems" has been searched for 8907 times on the American Poems site since March 24th, 2004.
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1. The Door in the Dark - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 27040 times on American Poems.
In going from room to room in the dark,
I reached out blindly to save my face,
But neglected, however lightly, to lace
My fingers and close my arms in an arc.
A slim door got in past my guard,
And hit me a blow in the head so hard
I had my native... (Read full poem)
2. Very Like A Whale - written by Ogden Nash
Read 15405 times on American Poems.
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
Can'ts seem just to say that anything is the thing it... (Read full poem)
3. Rhyming Poem - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 7231 times on American Poems.
the goldfish sing all night with guitars,
and the whores go down with the stars,
the whores go down with the stars
I'm sorry, sir, we close at 4:30,
besides yr mother's neck is dirty,
and the whores go down with the etc.,
the whrs. go dn. with the... (Read full poem)
4. A Familiar Letter - written by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying;
Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold?
I'll show you that rhyming's as easy as lying,
If you'll listen to me while the art I unfold.
Here's a book full of words; one can... (Read full poem)
5. Old Poets - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 3064 times on American Poems.
(For Robert Cortez Holliday)
If I should live in a forest
And sleep underneath a tree,
No grove of impudent saplings
Would make a home for me.
I'd go where the old oaks gather,
Serene and good and strong,
And they would not sigh and... (Read full poem)
6. The Bells - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Published in 1849.
Read 15173 times on American Poems.
I
Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline... (Read full poem)
7. To The Whore Who Took My Poems - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 26271 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)
8. if you like my poems let them - written by e.e. cummings
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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)
9. Her -- "last Poems" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 22347 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)
10. 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)
11. As The Poems Go - written by Charles Bukowski
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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)
12. The Spring - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1965.
Read 19622 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)
13. Judson Stoddard - written by Edgar Lee Masters
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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)
14. Thought. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 10684 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)
15. The Planet On The Table - written by Wallace Stevens
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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)
16. Endnote - written by Hayden Carruth
From Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995.
Published in 1996.
Read 3878 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)
17. The Division Of Parts - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2968 times on American Poems.
1.
Mother, my Mary Gray,
once resident of Gloucester
and Essex County,
a photostat of your will
arrived in the mail today.
This is the division of money.
I am one third
of your daughters counting my bounty
or I am a queen alone
in the parlor... (Read full poem)
18. Indications, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4639 times on American Poems.
THE indications, and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts;
What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their
words;
The... (Read full poem)
19. Big Hair - written by David Lehman
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Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie
tear, wanting to look like a moll
in a Chandler novel. Dinner, consisting of three parts gin
and one part lime juice cordial, was a prelude to her hair.
There are, she said, poems that can be written... (Read full poem)
20. Trees - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 34846 times on American Poems.
(For Mrs. Henry Mills Alden)
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree... (Read full poem)
21. For Lew Welch In A Snowfall - written by Gary Snyder
From No Nature.
Published in 1992.
Read 3355 times on American Poems.
Snowfall in March:
I sit in the white glow reading a thesis
About you. Your poems, your life.
The author's my student,
He even quotes me.
Forty years since we joked in a kitchen in Portland
Twenty since you disappeared.
All those years and their... (Read full poem)
22. A Following - written by Charles Bukowski
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the phone rang at 1:30 a.m.
and it was a man from Denver:
"Chinaski, you got a following in
Denver..."
"yeah?"
"yeah, I got a magazine and I want some
poems from you..."
"FUCK YOU,... (Read full poem)
23. Poems, Potatoes - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1963.
Read 4892 times on American Poems.
The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line
Ousts mistier peers and thrives, murderous,
In establishments which imagined lines
Can only haunt. Sturdy as potatoes,
Stones, without conscience, word and line endure,
Given an inch. Not that they're... (Read full poem)
24. Stillborn - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1960.
Read 11037 times on American Poems.
These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.
O I cannot explain... (Read full poem)
25. Revolt In The Ranks - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2552 times on American Poems.
I have just spent one-hour-and-a-half
handicapping tomorrow's
card.
when am I going to get at the poems?
well, they'll just have to wait
they'll have to warm their feet in the
anteroom
where they'll sit gossiping about
me.
"this Chinaski,... (Read full poem)
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