Year’s End By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms of houses show A gathered light, a shape ...
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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessèd day, And cries, “Oh, let there be nothing on earth but ...
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The Gift By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I was seven when my father took my hand like this, and I did not hol ...
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Empire of Dreams By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
On the first page of my dreambook It’s always evening In an occupied country.
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The Black Cock By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
He frightens all the witches and the dragons in their lair He cues the clear blue daylight and He gives the night its dare He flaps His wings for warn ...
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Dressing My Daughters By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
The mass of stuff That makes the Sunday frocks collapses In my hands and finds its shape, only because They understand the drape of it— These skinny k ...
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Thanksgiving Day [“Over the river and through the wood”] By Lydia Maria Child - Giggle Poems
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Ove ...
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The Twelve Days of Christmas By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
The fourth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear tree. The fifth ...
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A Rocket in My Pocket By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
I've got a rocket In my pocket; I cannot stop to play. Away it goes! I've burned my toes. It's Independence Day.
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Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
My mother was not impressed with her beauty; once a year she put it on like a costume, plaited her black hair, slick as cornsilk, down past her hips, ...
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I Am Waiting By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
I am waiting for my case to come up??? and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail and I ...
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Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
I ran on them like a component: Henries, microhenries, Blue Beavers, wee wee ductors: Biographer of small lives, Of a plug and his girl named Jack, Of ...
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A Pumpkin at New Year’s By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
It was time too to leave you uncut and full-featured, Like the grandpa of twenty-five pumpkins in my past, Khrushchev-cheeked and dwelling on yourself ...
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Debridement By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
We saw no action, eleven months twenty-two days in our old tank burning sixty feet away: I watch them burn inside out: hoisting through heavy crossfir ...
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Grandfather By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
In 1915 my grandfather’s neighbors surrounded his house near the dayline he ran on the Hudson in Catskill, NY and thought they’d burn his family out i ...
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Lines Written Near San Francisco By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
The white moon rose And sank in the Pacific. 2 Now, as we stand idle, Watching the silent, bowler-hatted man, The engineer, who writes in the smoking ...
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Carentan O Carentan By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Trees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady lane Where lovers wandered hand in hand Who came from Carentan. This was the shining green canal ...
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I Dreamed That in a City Dark as Paris By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
I dreamed that in a city dark as Paris I stood alone in a deserted square. My confrere In whose thick boots I stood, were you amazed To wander through ...
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Sunday: New Guinea By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers, The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn, From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs, Each to his ...
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Aside By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
O demobilized for a moment, a world is made human, Returns to a time that is neither the present or then, But a garland of clippings and wishes of who ...
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Troop Train By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Diamonds and hearts are red but spades are black, And spades are spades and clubs are clovers—black. Trains lead to ships and ships to death or trains ...
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Love in the Weather’s Bells By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I vest myself in your oldest memory and in my oldest need. It will soon be cold here, and dark here; the grass will lie flat to search for its spring ...
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The Healing Improvisation of Hair By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I used to lean in the doorway and watch my stony woman wind the copper through the black, and play with my understanding, show me she cóuld take a cup ...
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Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
These others stand with you, squinting the city into place, yet cannot see what you see, what you would see —a vision of these paths, laid out like a ...
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