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The term "zoad who doesn%27t take a chance" has been searched for 21 times on the American Poems site since January 21st, 2005.
Search Results: 4 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Widows - written by Louise Gluck
From Ararat.
Published in 1990.
Read 1887 times on American Poems.
My mother's playing cards with my aunt,
Spite and Malice, the family pastime, the game
my grandmother taught all her daughters.
Midsummer: too hot to go out.
Today, my aunt's ahead; she's getting the good cards.
My mother's dragging,... (Read full poem)
3. Charlene-n-Booker 4ever - written by Forrest Hamer
Read 1034 times on American Poems.
And the old men, supervising grown grandsons, nephews,
any man a boy given this chance of making
a new sidewalk outside the apartment building where
some of them live, three old men and their wives,
the aging unmarrying children, and the... (Read full poem)
5. An Empty Threat - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 4824 times on American Poems.
I stay;
But it isn't as if
There wasn't always Hudson's Bay
And the fur trade,
A small skiff
And a paddle blade.
I can just see my tent pegged,
And me on the floor,
Cross-legged,
And a trapper looking in at the door
With furs to... (Read full poem)
6. Luck is not chance -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5870 times on American Poems.
Luck is not chance --
It's Toil --
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned --
The Father of the Mine
Is that old-fashioned Coin
We spurned --(Read full poem)
7. The Butterfly - written by Louise Gluck
From Meadowlands.
Published in 1996.
Read 2063 times on American Poems.
Look, a butterfly. Did you make a wish?
You don't wish on butterflies.
You do so. Did you make one?
Yes.
It doesn't count.(Read full poem)
8. Not probable -- The barest Chance - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2335 times on American Poems.
Not probable -- The barest Chance --
A smile too few -- a word too much
And far from Heaven as the Rest --
The Soul so close on Paradise --
What if the Bird from journey far --
Confused by Sweets -- as Mortals -- are --
Forget the secret of His... (Read full poem)
9. Man in a Window - written by Ralph Angel
From Anxious Latitudes.
Published in 1986.
Read 2227 times on American Poems.
I don’t know man trust is a precious thing
a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get repaid with humiliation
Luckily friends rally to my spiritual defense
I think they’re reminding me
I mean it’s important to me it’s
important to me so I... (Read full poem)
10. Kore - written by Robert Creeley
Read 1264 times on American Poems.
As I was walking
I came upon
chance walking
the same road upon.
As I sat down
by chance to move
later
if and as I might,
light the wood was,
light and green,
and what I saw
before I had not seen.
It was a lady
accompanied
by goat... (Read full poem)
11. Fragment Sixty-eight - written by H. D.
Read 5737 times on American Poems.
. . . even in the house of Hades.
--Sappho
1
I envy you your chance of death,
how I envy you this.
I am more covetous of him
even than of your glance,
I wish more from his presence
though he torture me in a grasp,
terrible, intense.
Though he... (Read full poem)
12. Says Mister Doojabs - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New York Times.
Published in 1902.
Read 255 times on American Poems.
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day,
I took a ramble up Broadway,
And with my hands behind my back
I strolled along on the streetcar track—
(I walked on the track, for walking there
Gives one, I think, a distinguished air.)
“Well, all... (Read full poem)
13. Sonnet 06 - written by Alan Seeger
Read 400 times on American Poems.
Oh, you are more desirable to me
Than all I staked in an impulsive hour,
Making my youth the sport of chance, to be
Blighted or torn in its most perfect flower;
For I think less of what that chance may bring
Than how, before returning into... (Read full poem)
14. The White Lilies - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1993.
Read 1737 times on American Poems.
As a man and woman make
a garden between them like
a bed of stars, here
they linger in the summer evening
and the evening turns
cold with their terror: it
could all end, it is capable
of devastation. All, all
can be lost, through scented... (Read full poem)
15. 1. Faith - written by Mark Doty
Read 2101 times on American Poems.
"I've been having these
awful dreams, each a little different,
though the core's the same-
we're walking in a field,
Wally and Arden and I, a stretch of grass
with a highway running beside it,
or a path in the woods that opens
onto a... (Read full poem)
16. Hamlet Off-Stage: Mel Gibson Dolls It - written by D.C. Berry
Read 454 times on American Poems.
Mel Gibson's Hamlet stinks -- doll Mel. Wind up
Mel and Mel's eyes glaze into porcelain,
blue gulfs of earnestness, and Gertrude
sucks it up, swilling Mel's sincerity --
Makes me want to haul off and retch my speech
about the dew, dissolve... (Read full poem)
17. Farm Boy After Summer - written by Robert Francis
Read 821 times on American Poems.
A seated statue of himself he seems.
A bronze slowness becomes him. Patently
The page he contemplates he doesn't see.
The lesson, the long lesson, has been summer.
His mind holds summer, as his skin holds sun.
For once the homework, all of... (Read full poem)
19. Thy Name - written by Brooks Haxton
From Uproar.
Read 553 times on American Poems.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
I will declare thy name unto my brethren.… Psalm 102
OK. Let’s not call what ditched us God:
ghu, the root in Sanskrit, means not God,
but only the calling thereupon. Let’s... (Read full poem)
20. Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun - written by Heather McHugh
Read 289 times on American Poems.
Too volatile, am I?too voluble?too much a word-person?
I blame the soup:I'm a primordially
stirred person.
Two pronouns and a vehicle was Icarus with wings.
The apparatus of his selves made an ab-
surd person.
The sound I make is... (Read full poem)
21. Davis Matlock - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 522 times on American Poems.
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:
That there are drones and workers
And queens, and nothing but storing honey --
(Material things as well as culture and wisdom) --
For the next generation, this generation never living,
Except as it swarms in... (Read full poem)
23. The Silver Lily - written by Louise Gluck
Read 1012 times on American Poems.
The nights have grown cool again, like the nights
Of early spring, and quiet again. Will
Speech disturb you? We're
Alone now; we have no reason for silence.
Can you see, over the garden-the full moon rises.
I won't see the next full... (Read full poem)
24. Contraband - written by Denise Levertov
Read 840 times on American Poems.
The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason.
That's why the taste of it
drove us from Eden. That fruit
was meant to be dried and milled to a fine powder
for use a pinch at a time, a condiment.
God had probably planned to tell us later
about... (Read full poem)
25. Siren - written by Louise Gluck
Read 2352 times on American Poems.
I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress.
I didn't want to go to Chicago with you.
I wanted to marry you, I wanted
Your wife to suffer.
I wanted her life to be like a play
In which all the parts are sad... (Read full poem)
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