Sad Poems
Weeping Walls
The contrast in temperature
Makes them perspire,
Dripping unseen except to those
Brave... more
Poet: Mary E-A. K. Remaniak by: Mary E-A. K. Remaniak | rating:  Ad Quintilianum
O CHIEF director of the growing race,
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,
Me, O... more
Poet: Robert Louis Stevenson by: Robert Louis Stevenson | rating: Lit Instructor
Day after day up there beating my wings
with all the softness truth requires
I feel them... more
Poet: William Stafford by: William Stafford | rating: Lepidoptera
On broken butterfly wing, your crippled mind
Fluttered into my classroom. Failed. And... more
Poet: Pivithuru D. Jayakody by: Pivithuru D. Jayakody | rating: To Kamikaze Pilots
You're not to come again.
We'll see you never again.
There's a goal you have to... more
Poet: Pivithuru D. Jayakody by: Pivithuru D. Jayakody | rating: Crow's Nerve Fails
Crow, feeling his brain slip,
Finds his every feather the fossil of a murder.
Who... more
Poet: Ted Hughes by: Ted Hughes | rating: MIRROR
Mirror, no preconceptions,
Honesty, truthfully
Watching a woman
Who grows from young... more
Poet: Heather Mirassou by: Heather Mirassou | rating: Francis Turner
I could not run or play
In boyhood.
In manhood I could only sip the cup,
Not drink... more
Poet: Edgar Lee Masters by: Edgar Lee Masters | rating: Hypothetically Speaking
If my pain were fake
If at the end of this I’d wake
If I were to die
Promise you won’t... more
Poet: Bianca McCowat by: Bianca McCowat | rating: To: You
It’s like a cover up, all shiny and clean,
Only they know what it means.
They lie and... more
Poet: Bianca McCowat by: Bianca McCowat | rating:
|
