A Gorgeous Anitra Freeman Poem Collected...

BELTANE FIRE  If we had an ancient wood to play in far away from obligations and city-mall...

D. H. Lawrence Poetry Collected And...

DREAMS NASCENT My world is a painted fresco, where coloured shapes Of old, ineffectual lives linger...

The Beauty Of Inokentii Fedorovich...

BOW AND STRINGS What heavy, dark delirium! What dim and moonlit heights! To touch the violin for...

A Beautiful Wislawa Szymborska Poem...

THE TURN OF THE CENTURY It was supposed to be better than the others, our 20th century, But it...

A Memorable Emerson Poem Collected And...

CONCORD HYMN By the rude bridge that arched the flood. Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,...

A Wonderful Longfellow Poem Collected...

PAUL REVERE’S RIDE Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,...

A Marvelous Oscar Wilde Poem Collected...

THE BALLAD OF READING JAIL In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime Trooper of the...

The Memorable Emma Lazarus Poem...

THE NEW COLOSSUS Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land...

A Beautiful William Browne Poem...

A WELCOME WELCOME, welcome! do I sing,Far more welcome than the spring;He that parteth...

An Inspirational Walt Whitman Poem...

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC 1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I...

Beautiful Wislawa Szymborska Poems...

A FEW WORDS ON THE SOUL We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for...

2 Wonderful Maya Angelou Poems Collected...

PHENOMENAL WOMAN Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a...

The Beauty Of Hartley Alexander Poetry...

THE WET GRASS OF MORNING In the spring when I bathe my feet in the wet grass of morning, I see...

A Timeless Shakespeare Poem Collected...

SONNET...

One More Neruda Poem Collected And...

ODE TO OLIVE OIL Near the murmuring In the grain fields, of the waves Of wind in the oat-stalks ...

More Neruda Poetry Collected And Shared...

 XIV I don’t have time enough to celebrate your hair. One by one I should detail your hairs...

Another Valentine's Day Poem Collected...

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat, They...

A Beautiful Edgar Allen Poe Poem...

A VALENTINE For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins...

A Wonderful Len Roberts Poem Collected...

THE LIST OF MOST DIFFICULT...

A Great Tennyson Poem Collected And...

TEARS, IDLE...

A Wonderful Sylvia Plath Poem Collected...

MAD GIRL’S LOVE SONG “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and...

Wonderful Shakespeare Poetry Collected...

FROM HENRY V (The ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’ Speech) Once more...

Great Persian Poetry Collected And...

LOVE STORY The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing How blind...

A Marvelous W. B. Yeats Poem Collected...

THE SECRET ROSE Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those...

The Beauty Of Dylan Thomas Poetry...

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOODNIGHT Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and...

A Wonderful Thomas Gray Poem Collected...

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD  The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd...

A Beautiful Janis Ian Poem Collected And...

STARS I was never one for singing What I really feel Except tonight, I’m bringing Everything I know...

A Wonderful Grace Cavalieri Poem...

ATHLETES The first time I saw my American poems translatedI just stopped and studiedthe hieroglyphics...

A Robert Frost Poem Collected And Shared...

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the...

A Beautiful Robert Burns Poem Collected...

TO A...

A Great Emily Brontë Poem Collected And...

STARS Ah! why, because the dazzling sunRestored our earth to joyHave you departed, every one,And left...

A Wonderful Led Zeppelin Poem Collected...

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold And she’s...

A Beautiful Henrik Ibsen Poem Collected...

IN THE PICTURE GALLERY With palette laden She sat, as I passed her, ...

An Unforgettable Maurice Maeterlinck...

PASSIONS Narrow paths my passions tread: Laughter rings there, sorrow cries;...

A Marvelous Oscar Wilde Poem Collected...

BY THE ARNO The oleander on the wall Grows crimson in the dawning light, ...

Beautiful Persian Poetry Collected And...

BEHIND THE SCENES Is it your facethat adorns the garden? Is it your fragrancethat intoxicates this...

A Poem Written By Tony Johansen

CARVING CHICKEN (THE STABBING OF DR. PLEASE-NO) (establish rhythm) I am I am,...

A Great Anne Bradstreet Poem Collected...

THE AUTHOR TO HER...

A Beautiful Carole Mathys Poem Collected...

SILENCE OF SNOW  The snow began to fall huge flakes blanketing limbs overhead as the firs and pines...

Great Chinese Poetry Collected And...

TAO TE CHING (EXCERPT) .  The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The...

A Special Joseph Warren Watson Poem...

BEAUTIFUL SNOW Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth...

Unforgettable Jens Bjørneboe Poetry...

SONG OF DEATH When the day has come and the hour has come And you’re put to the wall where...

A Great Anna Laetitia Barbauld Poem...

THE RIGHTS OF...

A Special Maya Angelou Poem Collected...

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS A free bird leaps on the back Of the wind and floats downstream ...

A Memorable Philip Larkin Poem Collected...

THIS BE THE VERSE They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill...

A Wonderful Roger McGough Poem Collected...

HAIKU The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then - Roger McGough 

A Beautiful Christina Rossetti Poem...

IN AN ARTIST’S...

Great William Wordsworth Poetry...

LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY Five years have passed; five summers, with the length...

A Wonderful Lewis Carroll Poem Collected...

JABBERWOCKY ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were...

Great Sappho Poetry Collected And Shared...

AGE The girl I was where did she go, where did she go that girl? I will never come back to you,...

A Beautiful Margaret Atwood Poem...

VARIATIONS ON THE WORD LOVE This is a word we use to plugholes with. It’s the right size for...

Great Sylvia Plath Poem Collected And...

LAST WORDS I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it...

The Beautiful Poetry Of John Clare...

TO MARY I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,And yet thou art not there;I fill my arms...

The Love Of William Carlos Williams...

THE THINKER My wife’s new pink slippers have gay pompons. There is not a spot or a stain on...

A Wonderful Gottfried Benn Poem...

ROUGE BAISER That is the painful hour, where an old wound falls open: a panorama is the round ...

Gorgeous Neruda Poetry Collected And...

SONNET XVI I love the handful of the earth you are. Because of its meadows, vast as a planet, I have...

A Wonderful D. H. Lawrence Poem...

GLOIRE DE DIJON  When she rises in the morning I linger to watch her; She spreads the bath-cloth...

Great Poetry By Sappho Collected And...

HYMN TO APHRODITE IShimmering-throned immortal Aphrodite,Daughter of Zeus,...

A Beautiful Victor Hugo Poem Translated...

SINCE I PUT MY LIP TO YOURS Since I put my lip to yours, since I in your hands posed My plain...

Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe Collected And...

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you...

Beautiful Shakespeare Poetry Collected...

WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN Hamlet: What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how...

Wonderful Robert Graves Poems Collected...

IN BROKEN IMAGES He is quick, thinking in clear images;I am slow, thinking in broken...

Great Persian Poetry Collected And...

GHAZAL 234  When the golden orb ascends from the east of the cup A thousand tulips upon the...

Memorable Melanie Safka Poetry Collected...

LOOK WHAT THEY DONE TO MY SONG MA Look what they’ve done to my song, Ma Look what...

Beautiful Jewish Poetry Collected And...

Evening Prayer In this moment of silent communion with Thee, O Lord, a still small silent voice...

Buddhist Poetry Collected And Shared By...

KISS THE EARTH Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step...

Modern Baraka Poetry Collected And...

WISE I WHY’s (Nobody Know The Trouble I Seen) Trad. If you ever find yourself, some where...

A Poem Written By Tony Johansen

RIVER You are the water in my river; The water that springs from the ground, fills my banks, That...

Great Yeats Poetry Collected And Shared...

TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND Dance there upon the shore; What need have...

A Favorite Alfred Noyes Poem Collected...

THE HIGHWAYMAN Part One IThe wind was a torrent of darkness...

A Marvelous Poem By Edith Wharton...

THE SONNET Pure form, that like some chalice of old time Contain'st the liquid of the poet's...

A Beautiful Neruda Poem Collected And...

SONNET II  Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss, What loneliness-in-motion, toward your...

Great Persian Poetry Collected And...

SOME KISS WE WANT There is some kiss we want with Our whole lives, the touch of Spirit on the body....

Shelley's Ozymandias Collected And...

OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone ...

Smith's Ozymandias Collected And Shared...

OZYMANDIAS In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws ...

Beautiful Chinese Poetry Collected And...

SACRIFICE TO THE CAT THAT SCARED ALL THE RATS When I had my Five White cat, The rats did not...

Great Poetry By Longfellow Collected And...

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The...

A Great Shakespeare Poem Collected And...

WINTER  When icicles hang by the wall,    And Dick the shepherd blows his nail. And Tom bears logs...

A Wonderful Rumi Poem Collected And...

HOW CLOSE ARE THESE IMMATERIAL THINGS  How close are these immaterial things - my soul to your soul!...

Timeless Robert Burns Poetry Collected...

AULD LANG SYNE  Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld...

A Poem Written By Tony Johansen

REFLECTIONS ON SONNET 18 When he was comparing with summer’s days He was thinking of you. ...

American Indian Poem Collected And...

OJIBWA PRAYER Oh Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds And whose breath gives life to...

Wonderful Poem By Robert Graves...

CHERRY-TIME Cherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon Gather to your fairy...

Great Poetry By Michelangelo Collected...

THE DOOM OF BEAUTY Choice soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see, ...

Significant Poetry By John Lennon And...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a...

A Beautiful Auden Poem Collected And...

FUNERAL BLUES Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy...

Wonderful Rumi Poetry Collected And...

YOUR BEAUTY IS GLORY Your beauty is glory in nakedness, the melt Of smooth skin unsullied with...

Memorable Japanese Poems Collected And...

THOUGH I GO TO YOU Though I go to you ceaselessly along dream paths, the sum of...

Beautiful John Clare Poems Collected And...

SONG THE sultry day it wears away, And o’er the distant leas The mist again, in purple...

Wonderful Shakespeare Collected And...

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE (FROM AS YOU LIKE IT) All the world's a stage,And all the men and...

A Wonderful Lilla Cabot Perry Poem...

ART WOULDST know the artist? Then go seek Him in his labors. Though he strive That...

Marvelous Emily Dickinson Poems...

I TASTE A LIQUOR I taste a liquor never brewed From Tankards scooped in Pearl. Not all the vats...

A Poem Written By Tony Johansen

THE GLOVE  I found a glove in Darley Street, Long and black and elegant velvet, Soft and sensual, a...

Wonderful Edgar Allen Poe Poems...

ROMANCE Romance, who loves to nod and sing,With drowsy head and folded wing,Among the green leaves...

Great Poems By Robert Herrick Collected...

UPON JULIA’S CLOTHES. Where as in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly...

Beautiful Robert Frost Poems Collected...

BLUE BUTTERFLY DAY It is blue-butterfly day here in spring, And with these sky-flakes down in...

Great Chinese Poems Collected And Shared...

OVER THE CHAIN OF GIANT PEAKS Over the chain of giant peaksThe great red sun goes down,And in...

A Wonderful Poem By William Wetmore...

PRAXITELES AND PHRYNE A THOUSAND silent years ago, The twilight faint and pale Was drawing...

Beautiful Neruda Poetry Collected And...

YOUR LAUGHTER Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your...

Wonderful Katherine Starke Poetry...

THE QUEEN’S CARPET America, I will scream across your highway of thigh, up the flesh...

A Wonderful J. Joy “Sistah Joy”...

WHEN WE SEE OURSELVES When we see ourselves as but a mere, yet mandatory, spec traversing the...

Great Robert Frost Poetry Collected And...

NOW CLOSE THE WINDOWS Now close the windows and hush all the fields: ...

A Neruda Poem Collected By Tony...

SONNET I Matilde: the name of a plant, or a rock, or a wine, Of things that begin in the earth, and...

A Poem Written By Tony Johansen

SOME THOUGHTS ON AN EARLY MORNING WALK I saw someone put a dollar in a homeless mans hand and he...

Beautiful Shakespeare Poetry Collected...

SONNET CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich...

Wonderful Neruda Poems Collected And...

FROGS Would you come and sit with me On my lily pad for a while If you were a frog, And I was one...