Karl Shapiro

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Karl Shapiro World Poems

  • 1.
    What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon
    With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip
    Of cloud catching my eye?
    Only the cones and sections of the moon.
    ...
  • 2.
    It stops the town we come through. Workers raise
    Their oily arms in good salute and grin.
    Kids scream as at a circus. Business men
    Glance hopefully and go their measured way.
    ...
  • 3.
    The gates clanged and they walked you into jail
    More tense than felons but relieved to find
    The hostile world shut out, the flags that dripped
    From every motherâ??s windowpane, obscene
    ...
  • 4.
    The beauty of manhole covers--what of that?
    Like medals struck by a great savage khan,
    Like Mayan calendar stones, unliftable, indecipherable,
    Not like the old electrum, chased and scored,
    ...
  • 5.
    Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets
    The bundles of letters are dumped on the docks and beaches,
    And all that is dear to the personal conscious reaches
    Around us again like filings around iron magnets,
    ...
Total 5 World Poems by Karl Shapiro

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Sydney-Side
 by Henry Lawson

Where's the steward?-Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do-
I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with you.
Brighter shines the Star of Rovers on a world that-s growing wide,
But I think I-d give a kingdom for a glimpse of Sydney-Side.
Run of rocky shelves at sunrise, with their base on ocean-s bed;
Homes of Coogee, homes of Bondi, and the lighthouse on South Head.
For in loneliness and hardship-and with just a touch of pride-
Has my heart been taught to whisper, -You belong to Sydney-Side.-
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