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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For C. By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
After the clash of elevator gates And the long sinking, she emerges where, A slight thing in the morning’s crosstown glare, She looks up toward the wi ...
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Scallop Song By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
I wore a garland of the briar that put me now in awe I wore a garland of the brain that was whole It commanded me, done babbling And I no more blab ...
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Charon’s Cosmology By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
With only his dim lantern??? To tell him where he is And every time a mountain??? Of fresh corpses to load up Take them to the other side Where there ...
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The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
Make me Tennessee mean Cobra mean Cuckoo mean Injun mean Dracula mean Beethovenian-brows mean Miles Davis mean Don’t-offer-assistance-when Quicksand-i ...
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Old Joke By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo, with lyre in hand and golden plectrum, you sang to the gods on Mount Olympus almost as soon as you were ...
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A Happy Childhood By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
I rise into adult air like a hollyhock, I’m so proud to be loved like this. Often I sing to myself all day like a fieldful of August insects, just thi ...
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers By Emily Dickinson - Giggle Poems
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in th ...
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For Elizabeth Bishop By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
—All are Broken now like her globe, but she remembers Them as I recall the black madonna Facing you across the room so that In a way you had the dark ...
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Sandra: At the Beaver Trap By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
1 Nose only above water; an hour in the ice melt; paw in a beaver trap, northern leaping through— the outlet sieving, setter- retriever staked to her ...
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Double Elegy By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
Whatever city or country road you two are on there are nettles, and the dark invisible elements cling to your skin though you do not cry and you do no ...
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
You pick up the horn with some will and blow into the freezing night: a love supreme, a love supreme— Dawn comes and you cook up the thick sin 'tween ...
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Song By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
Observe the cautious toadstools still on the lawn today though they grow over-evening; sun shrinks them away.
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Heart’s Needle By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
1 Child of my winter, born When the new fallen soldiers froze In Asia’s steep ravines and fouled the snows, When I was torn By love I could not still, ...
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The Metaphysical Amorist By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
But in this shadowy lower life I sleep with a terrestrial wife And earthy children I beget. Now, in the heavenly other place Love is in the eternal mi ...
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Unromantic Love By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
The love I could discover In these recesses knows no lover, Is the unreal, The undefined, unanalysed, Unabsolute many; It is antithesis of any, In non ...
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To My Wife By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
And does the heart grow old? You know In the indiscriminate green Of summer or in earliest snow A landscape is another scene, Inchoate and anonymous, ...
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The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80 By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
Dear old equivocal and closest friend, Grand Vizier to a weak bewildered king, Now we approach The Ecclesiastean Age Where the heart is like to go off ...
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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his drea ...
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Burning By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
He lives, who last night flopped from a log Into the creek, and all night by an ankle Lay pinned to the flood, dead as a nail But for the skin of the ...
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Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Some are teethed on a silver spoon, ???With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black raccoon— ???For implements of battle. Some are ...
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A Brown Girl Dead By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
With two white roses on her breasts, ???White candles at head and feet,??? Dark Madonna of the grave she rests; ???Lord Death has found her sweet. He ...
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Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems
The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea; White in either case, for you are pale As they are, “blooming early and profusely” Though the azalea grows i ...
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In Celebration of My Uterus By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
You are singing like a school girl. Sweet weight, in celebration of the woman I am and of the soul of the woman I am and of the central creature and i ...
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