Persimmons By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
Dew: I’ve forgotten. Naked: I’ve forgotten. Wrens are small, plain birds, yarn is what one knits with. Knowing it wasn’t ripe or sweet, I didn’t eat b ...
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Patterns By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
I walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden paths In my stiff, broc ...
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The Blue Scarf By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
The west wind has lifted a scarf On the seat close beside me; the blue of it is a violent outrage of colour. Her kisses are sharp buds of fire; and I ...
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In a Garden By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Gushing from the mouths of stone men To spread at ease under the sky In granite-lipped basins, Where iris dabble their feet And rustle to a passing wi ...
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Away above a Harborful . . . By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
Away above a harborful ????????????????????????????????????????????? of caulkless houses??? among the charley noble chimneypots ??????????????????of a ...
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The Rain By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quiet, persistent rain.
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
You pick up the horn with some will and blow into the freezing night: a love supreme, a love supreme— Dawn comes and you cook up the thick sin 'tween ...
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The Man Who Married Magdalene By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Her hands were hollow, pale, and blue, Her mouth like watered wine.
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The Bad Old Days By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
Debauched and exhausted faces, Starved and looted brains, faces Like the faces in the senile And insane wards of charity Hospitals. Then as the soiled ...
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Love for a Hand By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Soft are the beasts of light But softer still her hand that drifts so white Upon the whiteness.
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Love in the Weather’s Bells By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I vest myself in your oldest memory and in my oldest need. It will soon be cold here, and dark here; the grass will lie flat to search for its spring ...
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Desire’s Persistence By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
Once, I wreathed around a king, became a fishing net, a maze “a deadly wealth of robe.” Mothers who have heard me sing take heart; I always prick them ...
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Ars Amoris By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
That manic force When wits depart Forbids remorse.
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For the Last Wolverine By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
I would have him eat The heart, and from it, have an idea Stream into his gnarling head That he no longer has a thing To lose, and so can walk Out int ...
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The Sheep Child By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Farm boys wild to couple With anything with soft-wooded trees With mounds of earth mounds Of pinestraw will keep themselves off Animals by legends of ...
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Cherrylog Road By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
She was tapping like code, Loosening the screws, Carrying off headlights, Sparkplugs, bumpers, Cracked mirrors and gear-knobs, Getting ready, already, ...
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The Goose Fish By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
They hesitated at his smile, Wondering what it seemed to say To lovers who a little while Before had thought to understand, By violence upon the sand, ...
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Rapture By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
I imagine her hair would fall about her face and she would become apparently downcast, as she does at a concert when she is moved. The hypnopompic pla ...
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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his drea ...
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Rhapsody By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
515 Madison Avenue??? door to heaven? portal stopped realities and eternal licentiousness or at least the jungle of impossible eagerness your marble i ...
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Poem (At night Chinamen jump) By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
At night Chinamen jump??? on Asia with a thump while in our willful way??? we, in secret, play affectionate games and bruise??? our knees like China ...
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To the Harbormaster By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
In storms and at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide around my fathomless arms, I am unable to understand the forms of my vanity or I am hard ...
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From the Dark Tower By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should ho ...
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Nude Descending By Alicia Ostriker - Giggle Poems
Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds Like prize ribbons for the very best The lover, producer Of another’s pleasure He whom her swollen lips a ...
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