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The term "zoetrope all-story" has been searched for 44 times on the American Poems site since June 19th, 2005.
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1. A Story - written by Li-Young Lee
From The City In Which I Love You.
Read 2075 times on American Poems.
Sad is the man who is asked for a story
and can't come up with one.
His five-year-old son waits in his lap.
Not the same story, Baba. A new one.
The man rubs his chin, scratches his ear.
In a room full of books in a world
of stories, he... (Read full poem)
2. The Story Of The Ashes And The Flame - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 3180 times on American Poems.
No matter why, nor whence, nor when she came,
There was her place. No matter what men said,
No matter what she was; living or dead,
Faithful or not,he loved her all the same.
The story was as old as human shame,
But ever since that lonely night she... (Read full poem)
3. A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4644 times on American Poems.
Until tonight they were separate specialties,
different stories, the best of their own worst.
Riding my warm cabin home, I remember Betsy's
laughter; she laughed as you did, Rose, at the first
story. Someday, I promised her, I'll be someone... (Read full poem)
4. Daughter - written by Gertrude Stein
Read 3824 times on American Poems.
Why is the world at peace.
This may astonish you a little but when you realise how
easily Mrs. Charles Bianco sells the work of American
painters to American millionaires you will recognize that
authorities are constrained to be relieved. Let me... (Read full poem)
5. Glee -- The great storm is over -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2544 times on American Poems.
Glee -- The great storm is over --
Four -- have recovered the Land --
Forty -- gone down together --
Into the boiling Sand --
Ring -- for the Scant Salvation --
Toll -- for the bonnie Souls --
Neighbor -- and friend -- and Bridegroom --
Spinning... (Read full poem)
6. Poetics - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 993 times on American Poems.
You know the old story Ann Landers tells
About the houseife in her basement doing the wash?
She's wearing her nightie, and she thinks, "Well, hell,
I might's well put this in as well," and then
Being dripped on by a leaky pipe puts on
Her... (Read full poem)
7. Love Letter Written In A Burning Building - written by Anne Sexton
Read 6295 times on American Poems.
I am in a crate, the crate that was ours,
full of white shirts and salad greens,
the icebox knocking at our delectable knocks,
and I wore movies in my eyes,
and you wore eggs in your tunnel,
and we played sheets, sheets, sheets
all day, even in the... (Read full poem)
8. Platonic - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1333 times on American Poems.
I knew it the first of the summer,
I knew it the same at the end,
That you and your love were plighted,
But couldn’t you be my friend?
Couldn’t we sit in the twilight,
Couldn’t we walk on the shore
With only a pleasant friendship
To bind... (Read full poem)
9. Rowing - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3793 times on American Poems.
A story, a story!
(Let it go. Let it come.)
I was stamped out like a Plymouth fender
into this world.
First came the crib
with its glacial bars.
Then dolls
and the devotion to their plactic mouths.
Then there was school,
the little straight rows of... (Read full poem)
10. Story - written by Stephen Dunn
From Different Hours.
Published in 2000.
Read 1353 times on American Poems.
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk
on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists
and houses with gravel driveways
sit back among the pines. Only the house
with the vicious dog is close to the road.
An electric fence keeps him in check.
When she comes... (Read full poem)
11. Pencils - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2065 times on American Poems.
PENCILS
telling where the wind comes from
open a story.
Pencils
telling where the wind goes
end a story.
These eager pencils
come to a stop
.. only .. when the stars high over
come to a stop.
Out of cabalistic to-morrows
come cryptic... (Read full poem)
12. To The Author Of Glare - written by David Lehman
Read 1047 times on American Poems.
There comes a time when the story turns into twenty
different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows
retreats to the cave of a solitary boy in a thriving
metropolis where no one remembers the original story
whic is, of course, a sign of... (Read full poem)
13. Mysteries - written by Terence Winch
From The Great Indoors.
Published in 1995.
Read 638 times on American Poems.
All last night I kept speaking in this
archaic language, because I had been reading
Poe and thinking about him. I read 'The Murders
in the Rue Morgue' which is supposedly the first
detective story. Who dun it? I wondered.
It turns out an... (Read full poem)
14. Woman with a Past - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2044 times on American Poems.
THERE was a woman tore off a red velvet gown
And slashed the white skin of her right shoulder
And a crimson zigzag wrote a finger nail hurry.
There was a woman spoke six short words
And quit a life that was old to her
For a life that was new.... (Read full poem)
15. The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol - written by Eric Torgersen
From Quickly Aging Here: Some Poets of the 1970s; Doubleday Anchor Books, 1969.
Published in 1969.
Read 502 times on American Poems.
The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
-AP Dispatch, Des Moines Register, August 4, 1968
The slain enemy resembled
an American Marine
who was 18 years old
when he disappeared.
The violent episode
was one of the strangest
in this... (Read full poem)
16. The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol - written by Eric Torgersen
From Quickly Aging Here: Some Poets of the 1970s; Doubleday Anchor Books, 1969.
Published in 1969.
Read 829 times on American Poems.
The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
-AP Dispatch, Des Moines Register, August 4, 1968
The slain enemy resembled
an American Marine
who was 18 years old
when he disappeared.
The violent episode
was one of the strangest
in this... (Read full poem)
17. Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1243 times on American Poems.
Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me --
How Kinsmen fell --
Brothers and Sister -- who preferred the Glory --
And their young will
Bent to the Scaffold, or in Dungeons -- chanted --
Till God's full time --
When they let go the ignominy --... (Read full poem)
18. The Gift - written by Li-Young Lee
From Rose.
Published in 1986.
Read 3165 times on American Poems.
To pull the metal splinter from my palm
my father recited a story in a low voice.
I watched his lovely face and not the blade.
Before the story ended, he'd removed
the iron sliver I thought I'd die from.
I can't remember the tale,
but... (Read full poem)
19. At The Smithville Methodist Church - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1349 times on American Poems.
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week,
but when she came home
with the "Jesus Saves" button, we knew what art
was up, what ancient craft.
She liked her little friends. She liked the songs
they sang when they weren't
twisting and... (Read full poem)
20. To You. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 5586 times on American Poems.
LET us twain walk aside from the rest;
Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,
Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story,
Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband,... (Read full poem)
21. An Old Story - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 1011 times on American Poems.
Strange that I did not know him then.
That friend of mine!
I did not even show him then
One friendly sign;
But cursed him for the ways he had
To make me see
My envy of the praise he had
For praising me.
I would have rid the earth... (Read full poem)
22. Eros Turannos - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2797 times on American Poems.
She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reason to refuse him.
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years,
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of... (Read full poem)
23. Castile - written by Louise Gluck
Read 1044 times on American Poems.
Orange blossoms blowing over Castile
children begging for coins
I met my love under an orange tree
or was it an acacia tree
or was he not my love?
I read this, then I dreamed this:
can waking take back what happened to me?
Bells of San... (Read full poem)
24. Story - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 2585 times on American Poems.
"And if he's gone away," said she,
"Good riddance, if you're asking me.
I'm not a one to lie awake
And weep for anybody's sake.
There's better lads than him about!
I'll wear my buckled slippers out
A-dancing till the break of day.
I'm better off... (Read full poem)
25. Crabapple Blossoms - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1834 times on American Poems.
SOMEBODY’S little girl—how easy to make a sob story over who she was once and who she is now.
Somebody’s little girl—she played once under a crab-apple tree in June and the blossoms fell on the dark hair.
It was somewhere on... (Read full poem)
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