United States
epub |eng | 1993-03-14 | Author:Yusef Komunyakaa [Komunyakaa, Yusef]

Page 79 Addendum I'm a bone roller, a high roller, listening to Lester Young & Big Mama Thornton, Peacock 1612. I'm a street nigger from way back when: I am ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-09-14 | Author:Yusef Komunyakaa [Komunyakaa, Yusef]

Page 29 Gristmill Black hands shucked & shelled corn into a washtub While a circle of ancient voices Hummed ''Li'l Liza Jane." Daddy shouldered a hundred-pound sack To Mister Adam's ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Ministers make novena with the charred bones of four very small very black very young children (Intone DIXIE) And guard the relics of your intact hymen daily putting to death, ...
( Category: Love Poems March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:John Ashbery [Ashbery, John]

On the streets, in private places, they have no idea of the importance of these things. This exists only in our own minds, that is not in any place, nowhere. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Dickinson

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walt Whitman

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add, that there is that in us which changes not, and which ranks all sensations and states ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Walt Whitman [Whitman, Walt]

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Francesco Marciuliano

Sheepdog You go to the left You go to the right You stand next to me And done I’ve successfully herded All your children by instinct And in order of ...
( Category: Breeds March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-18 | Author:Charles Bukowski

hail and farewell as gentle as a butterfly fluttering in the murdered light you came through here like fire singing and when it was over the walls came down the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Kim Barnes

I settled into my basement room, larger than many of the shacks we had lived in. I lay in bed that first night, gauging the darkness against the city’s sounds ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-06-15 | Author:Jack Kerouac

126th Chorus Like running a stick thru water The use and effect Of tellin people that their house is burning, And that the Buddha, an old And wise father Will ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-10 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Sub jectiveness—these are threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order, but ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Poems First Series

VII. THE bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly; The pretty people in the woods Receive me cordially. The brooks laugh louder when I come, The breezes ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )