Family Poems
Mid-Term Break
I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At... more
Poet: Seamus Heaney by: Seamus Heaney | rating:  Cousin Kate
I was a cottage maiden
Hardened by sun and air
Contented with my cottage mates,
Not... more
Poet: Christina Rossetti by: Christina Rossetti | rating: Bazonka
Say Bazonka every day
That's what my grandma used to say
It keeps at bay the Asian... more
Poet: Spike Milligan by: Spike Milligan | rating: The Daughter Goes To Camp
In the taxi alone, home from the airport,
I could not believe you were gone. My palm... more
Poet: Sharon Olds by: Sharon Olds | rating: Man And Wife
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
the rising sun in war paint dyes us red;
in... more
Poet: Robert Lowell by: Robert Lowell | rating: The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach )
FOR the fairest maid in Hampton
They needed not to search,
Who saw young Anna... more
Poet: John Greenleaf Whittier by: John Greenleaf Whittier | rating: Ape
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father,
who had monkey hair and blood on... more
Poet: Russell Edson by: Russell Edson | rating: The Mother
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not... more
Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks by: Gwendolyn Brooks | rating: The Something
Here come my night thoughts
On crutches,
Returning from studying the heavens.
What they... more
Poet: Charles Simic by: Charles Simic | rating: Cardinal
We remain without direction
but delude ourselves with labels,
north to clarity, south to... more
Poet: Kristin Anthony by: Aneeqa Chaudary | rating:
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