Filling Station

SpillwordsMarch 29, 2020

Filling Station a poem by: Elizabeth Bishop   Oh, but it is dirty! --this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all...

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Thy Days Are Done

SpillwordsMarch 22, 2020

Thy Days Are Done a poem by: Lord Byron   Thy days are done, thy fame begun; Thy country's strains record The triumphs of her chosen Son, The slaught...

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Birches

SpillwordsMarch 15, 2020

Birches a poem by: Robert Frost   When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's ...

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On A Tired Housewife

SpillwordsMarch 8, 2020

On A Tired Housewife a poem by: Anonymous   Here lies a poor woman who was always tired, She lived in a house where help wasn't hired: Her last words ...

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If Those I Loved Were Lost

SpillwordsMarch 1, 2020

If Those I Loved Were Lost a poem by: Emily Dickinson   If those I loved were lost The Crier's voice would tell me -- If those I loved were found The...

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And Death Shall Have No Dominion

SpillwordsFebruary 23, 2020

And Death Shall Have No Dominion a poem by: Dylan Thomas   And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wi...

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A Clear Midnight

SpillwordsFebruary 16, 2020

A Clear Midnight a poem by: Walt Whitman   This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...

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Jabberwocky

SpillwordsFebruary 9, 2020

Jabberwocky a poem by: Lewis Carroll   'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mom...

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An Almost Made Up Poem

SpillwordsFebruary 2, 2020

An Almost Made Up Poem a poem by: Charles Bukowski   I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are sma...

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The Lifeguard

SpillwordsJanuary 26, 2020

The Lifeguard a poem by: James Dickey   In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its shadow Mak...

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Life

SpillwordsJanuary 19, 2020

Life a poem by: George Herbert   I made a posie, while the day ran by: Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time...

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An Old Life

SpillwordsJanuary 12, 2020

An Old Life a poem by: Donald Hall   Snow fell in the night. At five-fifteen I woke to a bluish mounded softness where the Honda was. Cat fed and c...

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Those Winter Sundays

SpillwordsJanuary 5, 2020

Those Winter Sundays a poem by Robert Hayden   Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands...

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The Year

SpillwordsDecember 29, 2019

The Year a poem by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox   What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old ...

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