Category Poem

Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt?   Deny! Did Rose her Bee— For Privilege of Play Or Wile of Butterfly Or Opportunity—Her Lord away?   The…

Forever—it composed of Nows— ‘Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home—   From this—experienced Here— Remove the Dates—to These— Let Months dissolve in further Months— And Years—exhale in Years—   Without Debate—or Pause— Or Celebrated…

For this—accepted Breath— Through it—compete with Death— The fellow cannot touch this Crown— By it—my title take— Ah, what a royal sake To my necessity—stooped down!   No Wilderness—can be Where this attendeth me— No Desert Noon— No fear of…

For largest Woman’s Hearth I knew— ‘Tis little I can do— And yet the largest Woman’s Heart Could hold an Arrow—too— And so, instructed by my own, I tenderer, turn Me to.

For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking round—   Wherefore when boughs are free— Households in every tree— Pilgrim be found?   Perhaps a home too high— Ah Aristocracy! The little Wren desires—…

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the Ecstasy.   For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears.

Flowers—Well—if anybody Can the ecstasy define— Half a transport—half a trouble— With which flowers humble men: Anybody find the fountain From which floods so contra flow— I will give him all the Daisies Which upon the hillside blow.   Too…