Wish Poems
The Applicant
First, are you our sort of a person?
Do you wear
A glass eye, false teeth or a... more
Poet: Sylvia Plath by: Sylvia Plath | rating:  I want......
I want to dream a dream that’s beautiful
I want to lead a life that’s colorful
I want to... more
Poet: Sailaja Devaguptapu by: Sailaja Devaguptapu | rating: Roses And Rue
Could we dig up this long-buried treasure,
Were it worth the pleasure,
We never could... more
Poet: Oscar Wilde by: Oscar Wilde | rating: When I Was Young the Silk
When I was young the silk
of my mind
hard as a peony head
unfurled
and wind bloomed... more
Poet: A. R. Ammons by: A. R. Ammons | rating: Eudaemon
O happiness, I know not what far seas,
Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround,... more
Poet: Alan Seeger by: Alan Seeger | rating: Trying To Pray
This time, I have left my body behind me, crying
In its dark thorns.
Still,
There are... more
Poet: James Wright by: James Wright | rating: Success
I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
If I'd looked up one day, and seen your... more
Poet: Rupert Brooke by: Rupert Brooke | rating: Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose... more
Poet: Federico Garcia Lorca by: Federico Garcia Lorca | rating: Security
Tomorrow will have an island. Before night
I always find it. Then on to the next... more
Poet: William Stafford by: William Stafford | rating: REVERSIBILITY
ANGEL of gaiety, have you tasted grief?
Shame and remorse and sobs and weary spite,... more
Poet: Charles Baudelaire by: Charles Baudelaire | rating:
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