You Will Hear Thunder | A poem by Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
. You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be...
Poems
Sea Chanty | A poem by Gregory Corso, 1930-2001
Gregory Corso My mother hates the sea my sea especially I warned her not to it was all I could do...
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May | A poem by e.e. cummings, 1958
Nina Leen, Florida, 1950 maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day)...
Poem of Perfect Miracles | A poem by Walt Whitman, 1856
. Realism is mine, my miracles, Take all of the rest—take freely—I keep but my own—I give only of them,...
Il N’Y A Pas D’Amour Heureux | A poem by Louis Aragon, 1942 / + A song by Françoise Hardy, 1967
Françoise Hardy Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux, Louis Aragon (1942) Rien n'est jamais acquis à l'homme Ni sa force Nothing...
Evening prayer | A poem by Arthur Rimbaud, 1870s
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, 1873 . I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair, Holding...
There Are Holes In The Sky | A poem by Spike Milligan, 1959
. There are holes in the sky Where the rain gets in But they're ever so small That's why the...
The Girl With Many Eyes | Tim Burton
Kurt Schwitters, Lost Blue EyeOne day in the parkI had quite a surprise.I met a girl who had many eyes.She...
Lesbos | A poem by Sylvia Plath, 1962
Constellations Viciousness in the kitchen! The potatoes hiss. It is all Hollywood, windowless, The fluorescent light wincing on and off...
The Difficulty of Breathing | Charles Bukowski, 1920-94
Small.. unnerving occurrences.. keep coming up one after the other: haphazard dumb accidents of freakish chance- the tiring tasks that...