By Darren Sardelli
The letter A is awesome! It simply is the best. Without an A, you could not get an A+ on a test. You...
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- By John HodgenMy brother is dying and I am not. I drag him behind me like a spiritless balloon, like the first robot...
- By Gwendolyn BrooksWe real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June...
- By Tom SleighBack in those days, when he told me about his adventures in sex clubs it wasn't the whys and wherefores...
- By Thom GunnI thought I was so tough, But gentled at your hands, Cannot be quick enough To fly for you and show ...
- By Ben JonsonCome leave the loathéd stage, And the more loathsome age, Where pride and impudence in faction knit ...
- By Stanley PlumlyThey were the local Ohio palm, tropic in the heat of trains. They could grow in anything—pitch, whole...
- By William BlakeAh Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime...
- By Isaac RosenbergMoses, from whose loins I sprung, Lit by a lamp in his blood Ten immutable rules, a moon For mutable...
- By Robert BrowningGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times...
- By W. D. SnodgrassI What’s unseen may not exist— Or so those secret powers insist That prowl past nightfall, Enabled by...
- By Kevin McFaddenCan't tell your oh from your ah? Go, go or else go ga-ga. What, were you born in a barn? Oh. Ah. What do you say when the...
- By Jonathan GalassiHeartworn happiness, fine line that winds among the tapestry’s old blacks and blues, bright hair blazing...
- By Atsuro RileySome nights, blank nothing: The ice-box, milk-purling in the kitchen. The eye-of-pine floorboards ticking...
- By Daryl HineTake a statement, the same as yesterday’s dictation: Lately pain has been there waiting when I awake...
- By Gerard Manley HopkinsLook at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright...
- By Gerard Manley HopkinsNot, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist — slack they may be — these ...
- By Vachel LindsayAny sky-bird sings, Ring, ring! Any church-chime rings, Dong ding! Any cannon says, Boom bang! Any whirlwind...
- By Geoffrey HillWhether or not shadows are of the substance such is the expectation I can wait to surprise my vision...
- By Adelaide CrapseyThe poet pursues his beautiful theme; The preacher his golden beatitude; And I run after a vanishing...