CONCRETE POEMS
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Early Sunset
If the sun sets for me at dawn
So that the white in me turns black
Before I shed off a single milk teeth
If I vacate that soothsome seat
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Michael Aete
If the sun sets for me at dawn
So that the white in me turns black
Before I shed off a single milk teeth
If I vacate that soothsome seat
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Michael Aete
Understand
wild animals become divinely rare
their habitats wild homes are soft earth & tree
cannot flee before the bulldozer concrete
flame and smoke desert where only wheat
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S. K. Kelen
wild animals become divinely rare
their habitats wild homes are soft earth & tree
cannot flee before the bulldozer concrete
flame and smoke desert where only wheat
.....
S. K. Kelen
Letter To An Archaeologist
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter
garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht;
a scalp so often scalded with boiling water
that the puny brain feels completely cooked.
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Joseph Brodsky
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter
garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht;
a scalp so often scalded with boiling water
that the puny brain feels completely cooked.
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Joseph Brodsky
Statue
Cement up to the neck
& my head packed
with unsaid words.
A gullet full of pebbles,
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Erica Jong
Cement up to the neck
& my head packed
with unsaid words.
A gullet full of pebbles,
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Erica Jong
Things I Didn't Know I Loved
it's 1962 March 28th
I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train
night is falling
I never knew I liked
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Nazim Hikmet
it's 1962 March 28th
I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train
night is falling
I never knew I liked
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Nazim Hikmet
Divorce
Woke up suddenly thinking I heard crying.
Rushed through the dark house.
Stopped, remembering. Stood looking
out at bright moonlight on concrete.
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Jack Gilbert
Woke up suddenly thinking I heard crying.
Rushed through the dark house.
Stopped, remembering. Stood looking
out at bright moonlight on concrete.
.....
Jack Gilbert
An Ode - In Commemoration Of The Founding, Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony In The Year 1623.
I.
They who maintained their rights,
Through storm and stress,
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Madison Julius Cawein
I.
They who maintained their rights,
Through storm and stress,
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Madison Julius Cawein
The Canvas
I want the new canvas of the day to look really good
and thus I start in the morning with a grateful mood:
with strokes of colour, soft and sweet pastel
I want to make a superb and pleasing aquarelle
.....
Keisy Rams The Poet
I want the new canvas of the day to look really good
and thus I start in the morning with a grateful mood:
with strokes of colour, soft and sweet pastel
I want to make a superb and pleasing aquarelle
.....
Keisy Rams The Poet
Hymn Of Breaking Strain
The careful text-books measure
(Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material can bear.
.....
Rudyard Kipling
The careful text-books measure
(Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material can bear.
.....
Rudyard Kipling
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton
I
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
.....
T. S. Eliot
I
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
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T. S. Eliot
In A Dream
at fifty I approach myself,
eighteen years of age,
seated despondently on the concrete steps
of my father's house,
.....
David Ignatow
at fifty I approach myself,
eighteen years of age,
seated despondently on the concrete steps
of my father's house,
.....
David Ignatow
Jug
THE SHALE and water thrown together so-so first of all,
Then a potter's hand on the wheel and his fingers shaping the jug; out of the mud a mouth and a handle;
Slimpsy, loose and ready to fall at a touch, fire plays on it, slow fire coaxing all the water out of the shale mix.
Dipped in glaze more fire plays on it till a molasses lava runs in waves, rises and retreats, a varnish of volcanoes.
.....
Carl Sandburg
THE SHALE and water thrown together so-so first of all,
Then a potter's hand on the wheel and his fingers shaping the jug; out of the mud a mouth and a handle;
Slimpsy, loose and ready to fall at a touch, fire plays on it, slow fire coaxing all the water out of the shale mix.
Dipped in glaze more fire plays on it till a molasses lava runs in waves, rises and retreats, a varnish of volcanoes.
.....
Carl Sandburg
Before
Before the gate has been closed,
before the last question is posed,
before I am transposed.
Before the weeds fill the gardens,
.....
Yehuda Amichai
Before the gate has been closed,
before the last question is posed,
before I am transposed.
Before the weeds fill the gardens,
.....
Yehuda Amichai
Oh My God
Three simple words
Commonly used
A mode of expression
Frequently abused.
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
Three simple words
Commonly used
A mode of expression
Frequently abused.
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
The Weary One
The weary one, orphan
of the masses, the self,
the crushed one, the one made of concrete,
the one without a country in crowded restaurants,
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Pablo Neruda
The weary one, orphan
of the masses, the self,
the crushed one, the one made of concrete,
the one without a country in crowded restaurants,
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Pablo Neruda
Summer Holiday
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of
bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
.....
Robinson Jeffers
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of
bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
.....
Robinson Jeffers
Response
There is a music of immaculate love,
That beats within the virgin veins of Spring,
And trillium blossoms, like the stars that cling
To fairies' wands; and, strung on sprays above,
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
There is a music of immaculate love,
That beats within the virgin veins of Spring,
And trillium blossoms, like the stars that cling
To fairies' wands; and, strung on sprays above,
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
The Precision
God spoke once in the dark: dead sound
in the dead silence. I turned
in my sleep.
I slept and sank away.
.....
Yvor Winters
God spoke once in the dark: dead sound
in the dead silence. I turned
in my sleep.
I slept and sank away.
.....
Yvor Winters
Eureka - A Prose Poem (an Essay On The Material And Spiritual Universe)
It is with humility really unassumed, it is with a sentiment even of awe, that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most august.
What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity -- sufficiently sublime in their simplicity, for the mere enunciation of my theme?
.....
Edgar Allan Poe
It is with humility really unassumed, it is with a sentiment even of awe, that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most august.
What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity -- sufficiently sublime in their simplicity, for the mere enunciation of my theme?
.....
Edgar Allan Poe
The Ape And God
Son put a poser up to me
That made me scratch my head:
"God made the whole wide world," quoth he;
"That's right, my boy," I said.
.....
Robert William Service
Son put a poser up to me
That made me scratch my head:
"God made the whole wide world," quoth he;
"That's right, my boy," I said.
.....
Robert William Service
The Ape And God
Son put a poser up to me
That made me scratch my head:
“God made the whole wide world,” quoth he;
“That's right, my boy,” I said.
.....
Robert Service
Son put a poser up to me
That made me scratch my head:
“God made the whole wide world,” quoth he;
“That's right, my boy,” I said.
.....
Robert Service
How Pleasant To Know Mr. Lear
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear,
Who has written such volumes of stuff.
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few find him pleasant enough.
.....
Edward Lear
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear,
Who has written such volumes of stuff.
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few find him pleasant enough.
.....
Edward Lear
Seven Decades
At ten I read Mayakovsky had died,
learned my first word of Russian, lyublyu;
watched my English teacher poke his earwax
with a well-chewed HB and get the class
.....
Edwin Morgan
At ten I read Mayakovsky had died,
learned my first word of Russian, lyublyu;
watched my English teacher poke his earwax
with a well-chewed HB and get the class
.....
Edwin Morgan
Meanwhile, In Another Part Of The War
On the street of the concrete refugee tenements
That have collapsed into the smoking holes
The Israeli rockets blew open at dawnâ??s early light,
The sundered limbs and torsos of a Jenin family
.....
James Phillip Mcauley
On the street of the concrete refugee tenements
That have collapsed into the smoking holes
The Israeli rockets blew open at dawnâ??s early light,
The sundered limbs and torsos of a Jenin family
.....
James Phillip Mcauley
Solidarity Song
Peoples of the world, together
Join to serve the common cause!
So it feeds us all for ever
See to it that it's now yours.
.....
Bertolt Brecht
Peoples of the world, together
Join to serve the common cause!
So it feeds us all for ever
See to it that it's now yours.
.....
Bertolt Brecht
The New York Skyscraper
The Woolworth Building
ENORMOUSLY it lifts
Its tower against the splendor of the west;
Like some wild dream that drifts
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
The Woolworth Building
ENORMOUSLY it lifts
Its tower against the splendor of the west;
Like some wild dream that drifts
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
The Summer I Was Sixteen
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which
we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.
We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.
.....
Geraldine Connolly
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which
we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.
We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.
.....
Geraldine Connolly
The Future Of Forestry
How will the legend of the age of trees
Feel, when the last tree falls in England?
When the concrete spreads and the town conquers
The countryâ??s heart; when contraceptive
.....
Clive Staples Lewis
How will the legend of the age of trees
Feel, when the last tree falls in England?
When the concrete spreads and the town conquers
The countryâ??s heart; when contraceptive
.....
Clive Staples Lewis
Description Of Love
A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
No sickness is there like sickness of heart.
The lover's ailment is different from all ailments;
Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
No sickness is there like sickness of heart.
The lover's ailment is different from all ailments;
Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
.....
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Ballplayer
i cop a squat on a squared-off log,
to watch you ball on the community center court.
butt numb, i shift my weight
.....
Evie Shockley
i cop a squat on a squared-off log,
to watch you ball on the community center court.
butt numb, i shift my weight
.....
Evie Shockley
Five For Country Music
I. Insomnia
The bulb at the front door burns and burns.
If it were a white rose it would tire of blooming
.....
Lisel Mueller
I. Insomnia
The bulb at the front door burns and burns.
If it were a white rose it would tire of blooming
.....
Lisel Mueller
The Bed Of The World
The great bed of the world
arching over graves
over Babi Yar
with its multitude of bones,
.....
Erica Jong
The great bed of the world
arching over graves
over Babi Yar
with its multitude of bones,
.....
Erica Jong
Nightmare Number Three
We had expected everything but revolt
And I kind of wonder myself when they started thinking--
But thereâ??s no dice in that now.
Iâ??ve heard fellow say
.....
Stephen Vincent Benét
We had expected everything but revolt
And I kind of wonder myself when they started thinking--
But thereâ??s no dice in that now.
Iâ??ve heard fellow say
.....
Stephen Vincent Benét
The Rising Of The Sun
I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment.
When the God of thunders and of rocky heights,
The Lord of hosts, Kyrios Sabaoth,
Would humble people to the quick,
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Czeslaw Milosz
I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment.
When the God of thunders and of rocky heights,
The Lord of hosts, Kyrios Sabaoth,
Would humble people to the quick,
.....
Czeslaw Milosz
Regarding Art
Sometimes, I, too, tell the ah's
of my heart one by one
like the blood-red beads
of a ruby rosary strung
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Nazim Hikmet
Sometimes, I, too, tell the ah's
of my heart one by one
like the blood-red beads
of a ruby rosary strung
.....
Nazim Hikmet
A Little Scraping
True, the time, to one who does not love farce,
And if misery must be prefers it nobler, shows apparent vices;
At least it provides the cure for ambition.
One does not crave power in ant-hills, nor praise in a paper forest;
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Robinson Jeffers
True, the time, to one who does not love farce,
And if misery must be prefers it nobler, shows apparent vices;
At least it provides the cure for ambition.
One does not crave power in ant-hills, nor praise in a paper forest;
.....
Robinson Jeffers
The Barter Boom
Now, since man became a martyr
To this economic stress,
He has sought relief, in barter,
From financial wretchedness;
.....
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Now, since man became a martyr
To this economic stress,
He has sought relief, in barter,
From financial wretchedness;
.....
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives
Men with picked voices chant the names
of cities in a huge gallery: promises
that pull through descending stairways
to a deep rumbling.
.....
William Carlos Williams
Men with picked voices chant the names
of cities in a huge gallery: promises
that pull through descending stairways
to a deep rumbling.
.....
William Carlos Williams
Australia Today 1916
They came from the lower levels
Deep down in the Brilliant mine;
From the wastes where the whirlwind revels,
Whirling the leaves of pine.
.....
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
They came from the lower levels
Deep down in the Brilliant mine;
From the wastes where the whirlwind revels,
Whirling the leaves of pine.
.....
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
Australia Today 1916
They came from the lower levels
Deep down in the Brilliant mine;
From the wastes where the whirlwind revels,
Whirling the leaves of pine.
.....
Banjo Paterson
They came from the lower levels
Deep down in the Brilliant mine;
From the wastes where the whirlwind revels,
Whirling the leaves of pine.
.....
Banjo Paterson
Visiting A Dead Man On A Summer Day
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
Forty feet of Corinthian candle
celebrate Pullman embedded
.....
Marge Piercy
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
Forty feet of Corinthian candle
celebrate Pullman embedded
.....
Marge Piercy
Autobiography
I was born in 1902
I never once went back to my birthplace
I don't like to turn back
at three I served as a pasha's grandson in Aleppo
.....
Nazim Hikmet
I was born in 1902
I never once went back to my birthplace
I don't like to turn back
at three I served as a pasha's grandson in Aleppo
.....
Nazim Hikmet
Letters From A Man In Solitary
1
I carved your name on my watchband
with my fingernail.
Where I am, you know,
.....
Nazim Hikmet
1
I carved your name on my watchband
with my fingernail.
Where I am, you know,
.....
Nazim Hikmet
The Morn That Breaks Its Heart Of Gold
From an ode 'In Commemoration of the Founding of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.'
The morn that breaks its heart of gold
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
From an ode 'In Commemoration of the Founding of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.'
The morn that breaks its heart of gold
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills
From the high terrace porch I watch the dawn.
No light appears, though dark has mostly gone,
Sunk from the cold and monstrous stone. The hills
Lie naked but not light. The darkness spills
.....
Yvor Winters
From the high terrace porch I watch the dawn.
No light appears, though dark has mostly gone,
Sunk from the cold and monstrous stone. The hills
Lie naked but not light. The darkness spills
.....
Yvor Winters
A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor
The hands of the clock were reaching high
In an old midtown hotel;
I name no name, but its sordid fame
Is table talk in hell.
.....
Ogden Nash
The hands of the clock were reaching high
In an old midtown hotel;
I name no name, but its sordid fame
Is table talk in hell.
.....
Ogden Nash
Mugging (i)
I
Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth streetâ??s duskâ??
Walked out of my home ten years, walked out in my honking neighborhood
Tonite at seven walked out past garbage cans chained to concrete anchors
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Allen Ginsberg
I
Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth streetâ??s duskâ??
Walked out of my home ten years, walked out in my honking neighborhood
Tonite at seven walked out past garbage cans chained to concrete anchors
.....
Allen Ginsberg