The Lie By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
Art begins with a lie ??????The separation is you plus me plus what we make ????????????Look into lightbulb, blink, sun’s in your eye I want a rare s ...
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A Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence.
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Unholy Sonnet 13 By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
Drunk on the Umbrian hills at dusk and drunk On one pink cloud that stood beside the moon, Drunk on the moon, a marble smile, and drunk, Two young Ame ...
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Unholy Sonnet 11 By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
Half asleep in prayer I said the right thing And felt a sudden pleasure come into The room or my own body.
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Unholy Sonnet 4 By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
Amazing to believe that nothingness??? Surrounds us with delight and lets us be,??? And that the meekness of nonentity,??? Despite the friction of the ...
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The Best Game the Fairies Play By Rose Fyleman - Giggle Poems
The best game the fairies play, ??? The best game of all, Is sliding down steeples— ??? (You know they’re very tall). You fly to the weathercock, ??? ...
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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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Mr. Nobody By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
’Tis he who always tears out books, Who leaves the door ajar, He pulls the buttons from our shirts, And scatters pins afar; That squeaking door will a ...
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A Young Lady of Lynn By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
There was a young lady of Lynn, Who was so uncommonly thin ??? That when she essayed ??? To drink lemonade She slipped through the straw and fell in.
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I Love to Do My Homework By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
I love to do my homework, It makes me feel so good. I love to do exactly As my teacher says I should. I love to do my homework, I never miss a day. I ...
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“A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett ...” By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett, Built a bridge for the good River Bumpett. ??? A mistake in the plan ??? Left a gap in the span, But he said, “Well, ...
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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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Carentan O Carentan By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Trees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady lane Where lovers wandered hand in hand Who came from Carentan. This was the shining green canal ...
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Sestina: As There Are Support Groups, There Are Support Words By Albert Goldbarth - Giggle Poems
Fresh hygrometer for sale!” Yes, and when the fair sex sidles close and coyly murmurs “nitrogen” into a burly masculine ear, I guarantee you: the tran ...
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Gyroscope By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
This admirable gadget, when it is Wound on a string and spun with steady force, Maintains its balance on most any smooth Surface, pleasantly humming a ...
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Balm in Gilead By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
“Is there no balm in Gilead?” So cries dour Jeremiah in granite tones. “There is a balm in Gilead,” replies a Negro spiritual. The baritone who chant ...
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The Foggy, Foggy Blue By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
I’d gladly gladly stop if I only only knew A better way to keep from lying, And not get nervous and blue When I said something quite untrue: I looked ...
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The Ballad of the Children of the Czar By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar’s garden, Tossing it back and forth. Like Papa’s face, said Sis ...
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Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Some are teethed on a silver spoon, ???With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black raccoon— ???For implements of battle. Some are ...
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To Certain Critics By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
I’ll bear your censure as your praise, For never shall the clan Confine my singing to its ways Beyond the ways of man.
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Karenge ya Marenge By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Invests one speech with haloed eminence, Makes it the sesame for all doors shut, Yet in its like sees but imp ...
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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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A Brown Girl Dead By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
With two white roses on her breasts, ???White candles at head and feet,??? Dark Madonna of the grave she rests; ???Lord Death has found her sweet. He ...
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Yet Do I Marvel By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind,??? Why flesh that mirr ...
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