Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
"Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"
You sullen pig of a manyou force me into the mudwith your stinking ash-cart!Brother!--if we were richwe'd stick our chests outand hold our heads..
© William Carlos Williams
A Sort Of A Song
Let the snake wait underhis weedand the writingbe of words, slow and quick, sharpto strike, quiet to wait,sleepless.-- through metaphor to..
© William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.
© William Carlos Williams
This Is Just To Say
I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold
© William Carlos Williams
Short Poems
1. “Sweetheart”You are the sweetnessTo my bitter daysYour love completes meIn every single way2. “Forever Mine”On Sweetest Day, my love,I offer you..
© Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day
On this day of sweetest delights,The world is filled with precious sights.Bouquets of flowers, boxes of treats,The air is filled with love that..
© Sweetest Day
Everlasting Love
Love is the sweetest feeling,It makes life so divine,The beauty of it, revealing,How two hearts can entwine.On this Sweetest Day, my love,I want you..
© Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day Memories
As I sit and reminisceOn all the sweetest days that passedI am grateful for the blissOf love that forever lasts.The first sweetest day we sharedWas..
© Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day Love
On this sweetest day,I want to express my loveWith words that will stayIn your heart as a dove.Your sweet smile lights upEvery dark corner of my..
© Sweetest Day
Honey Love
You are my honey loveSo sweet and pure and trueOn Sweetest Day, my darlingI’ll give my heart to you.
© Sweetest Day
Candy Kisses
A kiss as sweet as candyFrom you is all I needOn Sweetest Day, my love,Your lips my heart will feed
© Sweetest Day
Forever Mine
On Sweetest Day, my love,I offer you my heartForever, you’ll be mineTill death do us apart
© Sweetest Day
Sweetheart
You are the sweetnessTo my bitter daysYour love completes meIn every single way
© Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day Poem by Walter Anchors
As you in your bed layAnd I sit here thinking about the yearsWhile the sounds outside I hearHappy Sweetest DayThough some may found it gayOn how we..
© Sweetest Day
SWEETEST DAY
Today is the SWEETEST DAY on Earthbecause you are in itNot just a day of hearts and rosesto express my feelings for youNot just a day of chocolate..
© Sweetest Day
Christopher Columbus
by Joanna Baillie On Palos’ shore, whose crowded strandBore priests and nobles of the land,And rustic hinds and townsmen trim,And harnessed soldiers..
© Columbus Day
Columbus
by Helen L. Smith A harbor in a sunny, southern city;Ships at their anchor, riding in the lee;A little lad, with steadfast eyes, and dreamy,Who ever..
© Columbus Day
The Boy Columbus
by Madison Cawein And he had mused on lands each bird,—That winged from realms of Falerina,O'er seas of the Enchanted Sword,—In romance sang him..
© Columbus Day
Flawless His Heart
by James Russell LowellFlawless his heart and tempered to the coreWho, beckoned by the forward-leaning wave,First left behind him the firm-footed..
© Columbus Day
Columbus to Ferdinand
by Philip Freneau. Columbus was a considerable number of years engaged in soliciting the court of Spain to fit him out, in order to discover a new..
© Columbus Day
Death of a Young Son by Drowning
He, who navigated with successthe dangerous river of his own birthonce more set forthon a voyage of discoveryinto the land I floated onbut could not..
© Margaret Atwood
February
Winter. Time to eat fatand watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,a black fur sausage with yellowHoudini eyes, jumps up on the bed and triesto..
© Margaret Atwood
Provisions
What should we have takenwith us? We never could decideon that; or what to wear,or at what time ofyear we should make the journeySo here we are in..
© Margaret Atwood
Backdropp Addresses Cowboy
Starspangled cowboysauntering out of the almost-silly West, on your facea porcelain grin,tugging a papier-mache cactuson wheels behind you with a..
© Margaret Atwood
The Rest
The rest of us watch from beyond the fenceas the woman moves with her jagged strideinto her pain as if into a slow race.We see her body in motionbut..
© Margaret Atwood