Category Archives: Poems
September 1, 1939
H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid [...]
The Bloody Sire
By Robinson Jeffers It is not bad. Let them play. Let the guns bark and [...]
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 [...]