Category Archives: Poems

Words Lyrics

Sylvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off [...]

No Man is an Island

By John Donne No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a [...]

The Truth

-Barrie Wade Sticks and stones may break my bones But words can also hurt me. [...]

Allowables

Nikki Giovanni I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black [...]

WORDS are with us…

…we are never alone even when darkness tames our need for sight     we remember that [...]

I Want to Know What Love Is

I gotta take a little time A little time to think things over I better [...]

In My Craft or Sullen Art

by Dylan Thomas In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When [...]

Human Family

Maya Angelou I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are [...]

The Way Home – Editing the Poem

I thought to set the words gently on the page     but they exploded in a [...]

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By T. S. Eliot S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse [...]