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Circle Poems
© Lew Welch
Whenever I have a day off, I write a new poem.
Does this mean you shouldn’t work, or that you
Cousin Nancy
© Thomas Stearns Eliot
Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them —
The barren New England hills —
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Confluence
© Yusef Komunyakaa
I’ve been here before, dreaming myself
backwards, among grappling hooks of light.
Captain, Captive
© Samuel Menashe
Of your fate
Fast asleep
On the bed you made
Dream away
Wake up late
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
© Charles Simic
They also piss against the wind,
Pour water in a leaky bucket.
Strike two tears to make fire,
And have tongues with bones in them,
Bones of a wolf gnawed by lambs.
Clotilde
© Guillaume Apollinaire
Anemone and columbine
Where gloom has lain
Opened in gardens
Between love and disdain
Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)
© Gaius Valerius Catullus
And he
a little charleychaplin man
who may or may not catch
her fair eternal form
spreadeagled in the empty air
of existence
Cleanliness
© Charles Lamb
All-endearing Cleanliness,
Virtue next to Godliness,
Easiest, cheapest, needful'st duty,
To the body health and beauty,
Who that's human would refuse it,
When a little water does it?
Crows in a Strong Wind
© Cornelius Eady
Off go the crows from the roof.
The crows can’t hold on.
They might as well
Be perched on an oil slick.
Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
© Benjamin Jonson
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess excellently bright.
Calling Him Back from Layoff?
© Richard Jones
I called a man today. After he said
hello and I said hello came a pause
