Poetry Catalog

Boombox blaringdown the street,dancing to the music-shuffling our feet.Boom box tied to my bikerolling down hills,I ride, ride, ride. … [Read more...] about Boom Box, By: Mary Bone

Enslavement is Johnny's wayTo save your soulsworking damn hard balancing actions prayCash to meet your goals then playEducating offspring in the light of todayEncouraging brave little people we value more than God to do what they did not know they could doTesting safely there in front of youA challenge of their skills building character rock hardEven if they're feeling chills … [Read more...] about Cost, By: Erik Iverson

And is this, Yarrow? 'This' the StreamOf which my fancy cherished,So faithfully, a waking dream?An image that hath perished!O that some Minstrel's harp were near,To utter notes of gladness,And chase this silence from the air,That fills my heart with sadness! Yet why? a silvery current flowsWith uncontrolled meanderings;Nor have these eyes by greener hillsBeen soothed, in all … [Read more...] about Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland 1814 – IV. Yarrow Visited – September 1814, By: William Wordsworth

They swoop in small murdersfrom one church steeple to the next like some low-budget, religious-themedsequel to that Hitchcock film. They congregate in alleys behindcoffee shops and empty retail storefronts crumbling into their own emptiness.They interrupt downtown traffic, our local crows, morning, noon and night,no respect at all for the ritual of rush hour or … [Read more...] about As Crows Fly, By: Brian Beatty

I would imagine all the pressure and scrutiny seemed insurmountableAnd as the rumors get louder you feel less and less powerfulBecause you tried everything to keep your marriage out the newsWhen all you really had to do, was hold your wife accountable It was dope that you would go through so much to impress her,Til you turned into Buddy love on the nutty … [Read more...] about Seriously Will, By: Eli Tevis