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My Shoes By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems

My Shoes By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026ReligionRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsArts & SciencesReading & BooksPoetic TermsMetersFree Verse

Shoes, secret face of my inner life: Two gaping toothless mouths, Two partly decomposed animal skins Smelling of mice nests.

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Badman of the Guest Professor By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems

Badman of the Guest Professor By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social CommentariesCrime & PunishmentRace & EthnicityActivitiesSchool & LearningTravels & JourneysArts & SciencesHumor & SatireMusicPainting & SculpturePoetry & PoetsReading & BooksTheater & DancePoetic TermsMetersFree VerseEmotionsHumor

i u worry me whoever u are i know u didnt want me to come here but here i am just d same; hi-jacking yr stagecoach, hauling in yr pocket watches & mak ...

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The Wheel Revolves By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems

The Wheel Revolves By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026NatureSummerAnimalsLivingGrowing OldParenthoodArts & SciencesPoetry & PoetsReading & BooksPoetic TermsMetersFree VerseEmotionsJoy & Contentment

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 Bad Old Days By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems

The Bad Old Days By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026LoveDesire & PassionNatureWinterSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeLivingDeathRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsArts & SciencesPhilosophyReading & BooksPoetic TermsMetersFree VerseEmotionsAngerGrief

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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The Intellectual By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems

The Intellectual By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026LivingLife ChoicesRelationshipsMen & WomenArts & SciencesReading & BooksPoetic TermsStanza FormsRhymed Stanza

He talks to overhear, she to withdraw To some interior feminine fireside Where the back arches, beauty puts forth a paw Like a black puma stretching i ...

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Aside By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems

Aside By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social CommentariesWar & ConflictLivingDeathArts & SciencesReading & BooksHolidaysMemorial Day

O demobilized for a moment, a world is made human, Returns to a time that is neither the present or then, But a garland of clippings and wishes of who ...

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Writing By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems

Writing By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Arts & SciencesReading & BooksPoetic TermsMetersBlank Verse

Being intelligible, these winding ways with their audacities and delicate hesitations, they become miraculous, so intimately, out there at the pen’s p ...

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The Erotic Philosophers By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems

The Erotic Philosophers By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social CommentariesHistory & PoliticsActivitiesSchool & LearningArts & SciencesReading & Books

It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window As I sit here drinking coffee, reading Augustine. and S?ren had much in common Including fear and tremb ...

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Eternity Blues By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems

Eternity Blues By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems

Friday, June 5, 2026Social CommentariesTown & Country LifeHistory & PoliticsActivitiesTravels & JourneysArts & SciencesReading & BooksPoetic TermsTechniquesPersonaTypes/ModesDramatic Monologue

I just had the old Dodge in the shop with that same damned front-end problem, and I was out, so to speak, for a test run, loafing along, maybe 35 m.p. ...

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Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms of houses ...

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Philosophia Perennis By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
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I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness??? I wept: how speech may save a woman The picture changes & promises the ...

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The Lie By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
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