Love Calls Us to the Things of This World By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessèd day, And cries, “Oh, let there be nothing on earth but ...
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Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll - Giggle Poems
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. And, as in uffish thou ...
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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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Toward an Organic Philosophy By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I get up and walk off in the moonlight and each time I look back the red is deeper and the light smaller. Scorpio rises late with Mars caught in his c ...
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The Wheel Revolves By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
Two and two violet green swallows Play over the lake. The blue birds have come back To nest on the little island. The swallows sip water on the wing A ...
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The Metaphysical Amorist By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
But in this shadowy lower life I sleep with a terrestrial wife And earthy children I beget. Now, in the heavenly other place Love is in the eternal mi ...
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In the Marble Quarry By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Beginning to dangle beneath The wind that blows from the undermined wood,??? ??????I feel the great pulley grind, ??????The thread I cling to lengthe ...
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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 Heaven of Animals By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
To match them, the landscape flowers, Outdoing, desperately Outdoing what is required: The richest wood, The deepest field. And those that are hunted ...
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Saint Francis and the Sow By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;??? though sometimes it ...
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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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A Step Away from Them By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
It’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwich ...
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The China Painters By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
They have set aside their black tin boxes,??? scratched and dented, spattered with drops of pink and blue;??? and their dried-up, rolled-up tubes??? o ...
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Pleasures By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
I like to find??? what's not found??? at once, but lies within something of another nature,??? in repose, distinct.??? Gull feathers of glass, hidden ...
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The Poet By Yone Noguchi - Giggle Poems
Out of the deep and the dark, A sparkling mystery, a shape, Something perfect, Comes like the stir of the day: One whose breath is an odor, Whose eyes ...
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