by Tina Cane Anna Akhmatova burned her poems and the light of Madrid was like water at La Latina luncheonette I ate a cup of chocolate and a motor oil...
by Robert Browning Gr-r-r——there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, G...
by Denise Levertov We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of...
by Charles Bukowski if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and ...
by George Gordon, Lord Byron So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as b...
by Ruth Herschberger So if you love me you will tolerant Be of the nature that is with me sent. I cannot be a different thing although For your sake, ...
by Gu Cheng Translated by Joseph R. Allen I built a snowman At your front door To stand in my stead, waiting there In all its stupidity Then you burie...
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the ...
by Christian Hawkey At the time of his seeing a hole opened-a pocket opened- and left a space. A string of numbers plummeted through it. They were col...
by Sterling A. Brown I Slim Greer went to heaven; St. Peter said, "Slim, You been a right good boy." An' he winked at him. "You bee...