By William Butler Yeats
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are...
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- By William Butler YeatsI Swear by what the Sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set ...
- By Joshua SeigalI don’t like similes.Every time I try to think of onemy brain feels like a vast, empty desert;my eyes...
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- By Cornelius EadyI’m here to tell you an old story. ThisAppears to be my work. I live in the world,Walk the streets of...
- By Matthew RohrerReading a kind of laborious poem about rural things and a horse is shot for breaking its leg. I still...
- By Patricia SmithDear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic...
- By Marwa Helal
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disaster a of out us - By Xi ChuanIf I could, I would put on a facemask and walk into the desert to meet with fairies and angels. I put...
- By H.D.He and I sought together, over the spattered table, rhymes and flowers, gifts for a name. He said, among...
- By H.D.I know not what to do,my mind is reft:is song's gift best?is love's gift loveliest?I know not what to...
- By Nikki GiovanniThere is a bat In Chile named Micronyteris giovanniae Dr. Robert Baker named it After me. He discovered...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By Solmaz SharifEverywhere we went, I went in pigtails no one could see— ribbon curled by a scissor’s sharp edge, the...
- By Frank Marshall Davis“He is bitter A bitter bitter Cynic” They said “And his wine He brews from wormwood” I was black and...
- By Safia Elhilloit’s late now, it’s early, no way to know which season it is of the total years of my life, weren’t ...
- By Emanuel XavierI wanted to be a poet. I hustled my way into the literary scene much like I had at the piers. They watched...
- By Trish Salahi. Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home. The insistence, the instance worried...