As the Ruin Falls (Poem)
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am …
Category Archives: Poetry
Touched By An Angel
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple …
Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when …
A Soliloquy on School Lunches
By Stephanie Davis 1998 To eat, or not to eat, that is the question: Whether ‘tis better for the stomach …
Winter
By Stevi Davis 1993 Before the snow falls Winter, dull, grey, Trees, naked, skeletal Branches bend in the wind Threaten …
Upon the hearth the fire is red
Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our …
The Little House of Lost Play
The Little House of Lost Play (Mar Vanwa Tyalieva) We knew that land once, You and I, and once …
On Being Human
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities …
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And the same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will …
The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
The Seafarer
About myself I can utter a truth-song, tell journeys–how I in toil-days torment-time often endured, abode and still do bitter …
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon J.R.R. Tolkien There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey …
The Day Breakers
We are not come to wage a strife with swords upon this hill It is not wise to waste the …
from Arcadia
My true love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold …
