Poetry

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart …

Popularity: 25%

as the poems go into the thousands you
realize that you’ve created very
little.
it comes down to the rain, the sunlight,
the traffic, the nights and the days of the
years, the faces.
leaving this …

Popularity: 19%

I reached up into the top of the closet
and took out a pair of blue panties
and showed them to her and
asked “are these yours?”
and she looked and said,
“no, those belong …

Popularity: 21%

some say we should keep personal remorse from the
poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone and I don’t keep carbons and you have
my
paintings too, …

Popularity: 19%

One moment alone in the garden,
Under the August skies;
The moon had gone but the stars shone on,
Shone like your beautiful eyes.
Away from the glitter and gaslight,
Alone in the garden there,
While …

Popularity: 20%

I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry;
But the husband was tip-toeing ’round like a mouse,
And the good wife was …

Popularity: 16%

If I could clasp my little babe
Upon my breast to-night,
I would not mind the blowing wind
That shrieketh in affright.
Oh, my lost babe! my little babe,
My babe with dreamful eyes;
Thy bed …

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In the midnight of darkness and terror,
When I would grope nearer to God,
With my back to a record of error
And the highway of sin I have trod,
There comes to me …

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Walking to-day on the Common,
I heard a stranger say
To a friend who was standing near him,
‘Do you know I am going away? ‘
I had never seen their faces,
May never see …

Popularity: 18%

If one poor burdened toiler o’er life’s road,
Who meets us by the way,
Goes on less conscious of his galling load,
Then life, indeed, does pay.

If we can show the troubled heart …

Popularity: 18%