Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Conversation With A Poet At The Gallery
They're cracked and crazed he said.Not true, that's his old girl friend after she shaved her head.So you see the image isn't what it appears to be.In..
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Conney Catching*
When you chase a rabbit(The rabbit, of course, isn't there)But until one tries to catch it,You don't know or even care.Conney Catching is always to..
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Confession Of A Non-Poet, E. B. White
'... it is common knowledgeThat I have neverReceived myAccreditation papersAdmitting me to the ranksOf American Poets.Having lived my lifeAs a..
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Come The Revolution
A sister, the illegitimate one,Is in the backgroundWaiting, waiting waitingFor there is the breath of death in the airThe smell of rot and decayAs..
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Cold
In the hearth, the fire grows coldBut in the ashes an ember glowsWaiting to bring anew a flame so boldThat warms the body and the soul.Culture and..
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Cockroach
There ye be whn I tlight th' candleScurryng cross my tabl top in a huddleCross my tretcher an then into the cupRattln the horns that wa for sup.On..
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Cock Of The Walk
Cock of the WalkYou've seen then everywhere."I'm the greatest - I swear".Prancing about on two legs or moreTo enhance sight (or restore) .Important..
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Climate Change
Man is endowed with many a talentBut affecting the climate is withoutFor greater forces are at work on the planetThan man's simply carbon..
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Civilization Is Three Meals Deep
Civilization has no merit.If you doubt itVisualize what you would doIf you missed more than twoLife sustaining meals.In the beginning, that's how it..
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Chrstmas Carol
A Christmas CarolListen my children and you shall hearThe noise above, on this nite so clearCan it be that Santa has arrived ahead of timeOr is it..
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Christmas Story
“Twas the Night before Christmas, and all through the house...”Is how the old poem began but it didn’t consider the louse,Who is the main character..
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Chocolate
Poems are like chocolateThe more you taste the more desperateYou become to sate your lust.The muses tease and offer justA sampling, that like the..
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Chivalry
With the single stroke of penCervantes' Don QuixoteBrought chivalry to an end.s
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Children Are Our Future
As I waitedThrough the afternoonIn the Intensive Care sectionOf the hospital,I noticed a young motherAnd her three childrenSitting there.After a..
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Character Of Arthur Ii
On the Utopian islandesuronded by lesse friendlie peoples,lived a king,well not quite a kingbut a ruler no lesewho was alwais sure that by fortunwas..
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Chanticleer's Message
You'll see,Sun rise is dependent on - Me!As hours of dark continues to ruleYou and yours will struggle off to work and schoolWithout a glimmer of..
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Celery Stalks Along The Highway!
There they beLittle vegetable treesCut off in the prime of lifeNo telling their pain or strife.Green, as they grew in fertile soilA product of man’s..
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Cavorting
Only a new born calfCan experience the freedomFrom being bound upIn a watery existenceDark, tied to a mother's string.Free, free at lastTo do as..
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Cats Have Opposing Thumbs
Few animals besides manHave by nature endowed a planFor grasping objects as they mayEither at work or at play.Seldom are considered the paws of..
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Catatonic
Karl Ludwig KahlbaumIn 1874, Karl Ludwig satStaring at his catWondering what scientific discoveryYet awaited his uncovery.Seems all the great and..
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Cat Who Loved Shoes
There in the doorwayA pair of old smelly leather shoes lay.Not quite in the same place by-the-byWhere they had been left to dry.One turned on its..
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Carpe Diem
Awake.Four in the morning.Stretch,Wiggle your toes,Snuggle under the covers.Yesterday, is yes; yesterday.Tomorrow may not be.This is the wayTo live..
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Careful What Boon You Re Pickin
hey bossits me againwas just enjoyingan old book withleather coverbout a famous knightwho changedthe worldits a story aboutan old manbent by..
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Cardiac Rehab
There’s a place not too far from homeWhere old folks go to be not alone,There they do the most amazing things.It’s exercise for the mind and body of..
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