Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils
I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is
From embers dim, a Phoenix soars, Its blazing heart the world restor… Through tempests fierce and sorrow… It finds its strength where shadow… And we, like the Phoenix, rise an…
“Which of these films was Dirk Bo… not in? One hundredweight of bauxi… makes how much aluminium? how many tales in ‘The Decameron’… General Studies, the upper sixth,…
CUP OF STRONG JOE AW… WHILE A LATTE SWIRLS… AS DAWN BREAKS AND YO…
“O who can ever gaze his fill,” Farmer and fisherman say, “On native shore and local hill, Grudge aching limb or callus on th… Father, grandfather stood upon thi…
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
Always your one and only, I’ll be… A daily source of comfort, by your… I’ll chase away the sorrow and the… And keep you happy, with me as you… A knight in shining armor, some mi…
The pig, if I am not mistaken; Supplies us sausage, ham, and baco… Let others say his heart is big— I call it stupid of the pig.
In the land of dreams, where sleep… We circle the drain, but who’s to… Friends grow old, and some depart, Leaving behind a heavy heart. As seventy nears, the nights grow…
Tightly-folded bud, I have wished you something None of the others would: Not the usual stuff About being beautiful,
growing a spring garden garden rendezvous so many ways scenes of love critter calls to mate April showers gift to May
Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his foot into the wat…
Romance Romance Is Love In
Winged October Ghosts Low three digits sun Hot mountain winds sea breeze none Pumpkins yet to come Grey clouds gather way
loving sardines... ode to St Pete… the sun kisses the moon along a serene trinity road to a congress of sardiniers cold naked white landscape gone
She kept her songs, they kept so l… The covers pleased her: One bleached from lying in a sunny… One marked in circles by a vase of… One mended, when a tidy fit had se…
Lord Strawberry, a nobleman, collected birds. He had the finest aviary in Europe, so large that eagles did not find it uncomfortable, so well laid out that both humming birds and snow-b...
I tripped on my shoelace And I fell up— Up to the roof tops, Up over the town, Up past the tree tops,
I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking
Forget the long, smouldering afternoon. It is this moment when the ball scoots
I thought that I could not be hur… I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering— immune to pain or agony.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kn… for a hundred miles through the de… You only have to let the soft anim… love what it loves.
You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor… He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have…
Naked Selfie The Next Moment Self searching we begin Every minute of our lives We live in the moment
And for what, except for you, do… Do I press the extremest book of… Close to me, hidden in me day and… In the uncertain light of single,… Equal in living changingness to th…
Don’t call this world adorable, or… It’s frisky, and a theater for mor… The eyelash of lightning is neithe… The struck tree burns like a pilla… But the blue rain sinks, straight…
From a magician’s midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. And like a fortune-teller’s
Faith Accept Accept Fall in to the monkey mind Of the moment
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording
Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly… From wide, uneven orbits; one brow… Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment stil… Skin-deep, as a foolish record of…
Unbiased at least he was when he a… Having never set eyes on the land… Between two peoples fanatically at… With their different diets and inc… “Time,” they had briefed him in L…
A timeless image; a balcony with an ocean; or a prairie full of stars. It doesn’t matter where we are. A garden full of roses;
Hand in hand Hand in hand Many a road to walk Many a beach to stroll Many more trails
Laugh At Yourself and the wind said this age old wisdom there is hope time honored promise love is in us all
Until We Meet Again Beyond the Rainbow We believe. We have faith. We pray.
love four seasons Celebrate choose love touch with your smile kiss softly speak love tenderly The love you give you receive
Ambrosia Undying Share a moment smile Compassionate full moment Hold someone share love
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone… Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat… And that faint hint of the absurd—
It seemed an unlikely match. All… grinding its teeth in a plastic sl… nose-down from a hook in the darkr… under the hatch in the floor. When… it knocked back a quarter-pint of…
Last night in the fields I lay down in the darkness to think about death, but instead I fell asleep,
PYRE Not again a December Nor yet a January Last year’s transition Left me singly crying.
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
I celebrate myself, and sing mysel… And what I assume you shall assum… For every atom belonging to me as… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observ…
Truth Seekers The Golden Fleece Let passion fly soar to the
Looking ahead Sitting on your front porch you did not look back... musing you crossed many rivers recalling comfortably on your adirondack
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hum… equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there t… Here the clam deep in the speckled…
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
Whose woods these are I think I k… His house is in the village, thoug… He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with sn… My little horse must think it quee…
As you plaited the harvest bow You implicated the mellowed silenc… In wheat that does not rust But brightens as it tightens twist… Into a knowable corona,
cool colors not far behind life is a whirlwind eyes open at dawn close in a wink at dark valentine’s not too long ago
Cosmos God created Infinite space outer rocks Stars ever in motion. Boundlessly vast yet crowded
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
Pigeons and Dreams Blossoms now pink cherry Find me watching pigeons Fluffing wings in gaiety Pick carry outers’ left-ons.
As the hawk sees it or the helmete… The clouds rift suddenly - look th… At cigarette-end smouldering on a… At the first garden party of the y… Pass on, admire the view of the ma…
Earth Beyond Let there be Light Dead into life empty into full hel… Grains of sand into towers of moun… Formless unknown unknown darkness…
trinity of love a trinity of love the creator father from the genesis first person
Don’t you care for my love? she sa… I handed her the mirror, and said: Please address these questions to… Please make all requests to head—q… In all matters of emotional import…
The sentencing goes blithely on it… And takes the playfully objected r… As surely as it takes the stroke a… In having its undeviable say.