"Pattern" by Dorothy Parker
Leave me to my lonely pillow....
Leave me to my lonely pillow....
Is that Eric Garner worked...
Who shall declare the joy of the running...
Let’s get lost in a bathroom stall...
Gather up whatever is...
Hello, fellow fediverse poetry lovers! Like the title suggests, who are your favorite poets? I figured a post like this could be fun and could help us all discover new poets!...
This is a poem of mine that I wrote in 2005 and first published in 2010 on Allpoetry. I decided to use AI to generate narration in many different voices....
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?...
The houses are haunted...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly:
When the ancient world foundered...
Like crawling black monsters...
The people along the sand...
That’s the job, he said,...
In a rush this weekday morning,...
In third grade you learned to fold a dollar...
Wisława Szymborska, 1986...
The Silent Confusing Eye...
Of the old house, only a few, crumbled...
Edward Hirsch, 2020...
Tracy K. Smith, 2007...
How should I index myself so that you can retrieve & cut me . . .
I like to ask people if they have a hyperbolic self-pity phrase they repeat to themselves for pleasure and comfort. One writer told me his phrase is, “You’re minor.” Another...
The greatest poem ever known...
I’ve always loved this poem. And now in the original Scottish.