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Chinese Apples by W.S. Di Piero
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:W.S. Di Piero [DiPiero, W. S.]

The cake, after pizza, tastes so sweet and sluggish we breathe through our mouths and cool the thirst with more beer. He smiled through the song, his wife holding his ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
The Back Country by Gary Snyder
epub |eng | 1968-12-15 | Author:Gary Snyder

NIGHT All the dark hours everywhere repairs and rights the hearts & tongues of men and makes the cheerful dawn— the safe place in a blanket burrow hissing in ears ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Alfred, Lord Tennyson

VII A people’s voice ! we are a people yet. Tho’ all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers, Thank Him who isled us ...
( Category: British & Irish December 10,2022 )
Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

If the home we never write to, and the oaths we never keep, And all we know most distant and most dear, Across the snoring barrack-room return to break our ...
( Category: British December 10,2022 )
Dream Fish Floating by Karlo Mila
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Karlo Mila

But your mother listens to your heart it is beating too loud for the room and the sixty year old woman that she is who does not dance pulls herself ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian December 10,2022 )
Break the Glass by Jean Valentine
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Valentine

Could we have coffee? —No, my truth, I’m still on this side. I saw you last night, again, at the bar on 57th, O faceless dancer, and I put down ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
Early Poems by William Butler Yeats
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:William Butler Yeats

Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West, You would come hither, and bend your head, And ...
( Category: Love Poems December 10,2022 )
What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Kim Addonizio

We know the ugly hate the beautiful, and the bitter losers are all seething over bad coffee, washed in the sleazy fluorescence of fast-food restaurants. We know the wheelchairs hate ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 10,2022 )
This Nothing's Place by Pasquale Verdicchio
epub |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:Pasquale Verdicchio

FINAL DEATH I am wearing your watch. A gold-coloured Wittnauer similar to the one I had years ago in stainless steel. Mine was a present from you for my twentieth ...
( Category: Poetry December 10,2022 )
House of Days by Jay Parini
epub |eng | 1997-12-15 | Author:Jay Parini

THE SMALL ONES LEAVE US The small ones leave us, and the leaves are blown. It doesn’t matter what we do or say, there’s nothing in the end that we ...
( Category: Poetry December 10,2022 )
Eldest Daughter by Ava Leavell Haymon
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Ava Leavell Haymon

How Two Became One Again Sestina’s Work Done This is how she came to know it, the turning of the lines and the spell of the numbers. The anagram in ...
( Category: Women Authors December 10,2022 )
Boston Strong by Richard Blanco
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco [Blanco, Richard]

Richard Blanco was selected by President Obama to be the fifth inaugural poet in history, joining the ranks of such luminary poets as Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, and ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
A Boy's Will and North of Boston by Robert Frost
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Robert Frost

“There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards, Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted. We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows. Blueberries “You ought to ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 10,2022 )
Hymn for the Black Terrific by Kiki Petrosino
epub |eng | | Author:Kiki Petrosino

[6] I don’t trust this body they wrap like a razor blade in secret crinolines. They want me bloodless & soft in the jaws. Can’t recall by the boudoir light ...
( Category: Black & African American December 10,2022 )
Poet to Poet by Julie Roorda
epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:Julie Roorda

Salvatore Difalco Luigi I visited your house in Agrigento, Contrada Caos, SS 115, Not far from the Valley of the Temples, On a hill sloping to the African Sea, known ...
( Category: Poetry December 10,2022 )

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