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"For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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Leviathan
by George Oppen
Truth also is the pursuit of it...
Trapeze
by Deborah Digges
See how the first dark takes the city in its arms...
Piano
by D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me...
I Am!
by John Clare
I am! yet what I am none cares or knows...
The Sleepers
by Walt Whitman
I wander all night in my vision...
The Ghazal of What Hurt
by Peter Cole
Pain froze you, for years—and fear—leaving scars...
Lay Back the Darkness
by Edward Hirsch
My father in the night shuffling from room to room...
Directive
by Robert Frost
Back out of all this now too much for us...
Eating Poetry
by Mark Strand
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth...
Falling
by James Dickey
The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn ...
Ave Maria
by Frank O'Hara
Mothers of America...
A Noun Sentence
by Mahmoud Darwish
translated by Fady Joudah
A noun sentence, no verb...
Hyper-
by David Baker
Then a stillness descended the blue hills...
The Parakeets
by Alberto Blanco
translated by W. S. Merwin
They talk all day...
Lycidas
by John Milton
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more...
Ode to A Nightingale
by John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains...
The Gladness of Nature
by William Cullen Bryant
Is this a time to be cloudy and sad...
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