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The term "zoo alphabet" has been searched for 59 times on the American Poems site since October 9th, 2005.
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1. September, The First Day Of School - written by Howard Nemerov
From The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.
Read 6852 times on American Poems.
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My child and I hold hands on the way to school,
And when I leave him at the first-grade door
He cries a little but is brave; he does
Let go. My selfish tears remind me how
I cried before that door a life ago.
I may have had a hard time letting... (Read full poem)
2. We learned the Whole of Love -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2121 times on American Poems.
We learned the Whole of Love --
The Alphabet -- the Words --
A Chapter -- then the mighty Book --
Then -- Revelation closed --
But in Each Other's eyes
An Ignorance beheld --
Diviner than the Childhood's --
And each to each, a Child --
Attempted... (Read full poem)
3. the times - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 867 times on American Poems.
it is hard to remain human on a day
when birds perch weeping
in the trees and the squirrel eyes
do not look away but the dog ones do
in pity.
another child has killed a child
and i catch myself relieved that they are
white and i might... (Read full poem)
4. When Man Enters Woman - written by Anne Sexton
From The Awful Rowing To God.
Published in 1975.
Read 8672 times on American Poems.
When man,
enters woman,
like the surf biting the shore,
again and again,
and the woman opens her mouth with pleasure
and her teeth gleam
like the alphabet,
Logos appears milking a star,
and the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never... (Read full poem)
5. A single Screw of Flesh - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2279 times on American Poems.
A single Screw of Flesh
Is all that pins the Soul
That stands for Deity, to Mine,
Upon my side the Veil --
Once witnessed of the Gauze --
Its name is put away
As far from mine, as if no plight
Had printed yesterday,
In tender -- solemn... (Read full poem)
6. Romance - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Published in 1850.
Read 76164 times on American Poems.
Romance, who loves to nod and sing
With drowsy head and folded wing
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been—most familiar bird—
Taught me my alphabet to say,
To lisp my... (Read full poem)
7. The Fallen Angels - written by Anne Sexton
Read 6999 times on American Poems.
They come on to my clean
sheet of paper and leave a Rorschach blot.
They do not do this to be mean,
they do it to give me a sign
they want me, as Aubrey Beardsley once said,
to shove it around till something comes.
Clumsy as I am,
I do it.
For I am... (Read full poem)
8. Stroke - written by Heather McHugh
Read 445 times on American Poems.
The literate are ill-prepared for this
snap in the line of life:
the day turns a trick
of twisted tongues and is
untiable, the month by no mere root
moon-ridden, and the yearly eloquences yielding more
than summer's part of speech times four. We... (Read full poem)
9. Rotary - written by Christina Pugh
Published in 2000.
Read 531 times on American Poems.
Closer to a bell than a bird,
that clapper ringing
the clear name
of its inventor:
by turns louder
and quieter than a clock,
its numbered face
was more literate,
triplets of alphabet
like grace notes
above each digit.
And when you dialed,
each... (Read full poem)
10. Life - written by Marvin Bell
Read 1097 times on American Poems.
I leave the office, take the stairs,
in time to mail a letter
before 3 in the afternoon--the last dispatch.
The red, white and blue air mail
falls past the slot for foreign mail
and hits bottom with a sound
that tells me my letter is... (Read full poem)
11. Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 2680 times on American Poems.
Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
Let us discover some new alphabet,
For this, the often praised; and be ourselves,
The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf,
The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone,
And all that welcomes... (Read full poem)
12. The Fury Of Beautiful Bones - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 3330 times on American Poems.
Sing me a thrush, bone.
Sing me a nest of cup and pestle.
Sing me a sweetbread fr an old grandfather.
Sing me a foot and a doorknob, for you are my love.
Oh sing, bone bag man, sing.
Your head is what I remember that Augusty
you were in love... (Read full poem)
13. From an Atlas of the Difficult World - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 11961 times on American Poems.
I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window
in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet
long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem
standing up in... (Read full poem)
14. Ode To Meaning - written by Robert Pinsky
Read 2146 times on American Poems.
Dire one and desired one,
Savior, sentencer--
In an old allegory you would carry
A chained alphabet of tokens:
Ankh Badge Cross.
Dragon,
Engraved figure guarding a hallowed intaglio,
Jasper kinema of legendary Mind,
Naked omphalos pierced
By... (Read full poem)
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