(All these poems are worth reading or I wouldn't have included them. My own favorites? Creedon's "litany", Wolf's "Rothko and Cassandra", Gralla's "Beauty", Montague/Ni Dhomhnaill's "Blodewedd", Williams' "The Mirror", Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'", Glauber's "Never A Time"....)
 
The poems are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
 
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Alexie, Sherman
"Inside Dachau"
"Defending Walt Whitman" (both from Beloit Poetry Journal sampling of poems).....(more Alexie)
 
Cohen, Leonard
"Suzanne" .....(more Cohen)
 
Cornwall, John
"Diary Poem"
"Father"
 
Creedon, Carolyn
"litany"
"Pub Poem" .....(more Creedon)

Crowell, Lori
"What You Think"
 
Dylan, Bob
"Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
"The Times They Are A-Changin'"
"Mr. Tambourine Man"
"Like A Rolling Stone" .....(more Dylan)
 
Furius, Lucius
"Herr Generalfeldmarschall Rommel Takes Cyanide" .....(more Furius)
 
Gioia, Dana
"Planting a Sequoia" (fourth poem down, from his collection The Gods of Winter)
"Places To Return" .....(more Gioia)
 
Glauber, Veronica
"Never a Time"
 
Gralla, Cynthia
"Beauty"
 
Harris, Alan
"Analogies for Love"
"A Younger Friend" .....(more Harris)
 
"Ivoryesque"
"Were I To Send This Letter"
 
Larkin, Philip
"Aubade" .....(more Larkin)
 
Leland, Kurt
"Remedies" (from Beloit Poetry Journal sampling of poems) .....email: kleland@yahoo.com
 
M., Kathy
"i've decide to become an alcoholic"
 
Malinofsky, Leon
See the "Other Poetry Collections" section
 
McCotter, Kathryn C.
"I Once Knew a Woman"
 
McGuirk, Patricia
"A Naked Singularity"
 
McPherson, Sandra
"Bad Mother Blues" (no longer available)
 
Menon, Deepak
"The City"
 
Mitchell, Joni
"Both Sides Now".....{more Mitchell (Wikipedia)}
 
Montague, John
Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala
"Blodewedd"
 
Plath, Sylvia
"Daddy" .....(more Plath)
 
Plummer, Lou
"Love Letter to the Editor"
 
Rich, Adrienne
"Prospective Immigrants Please Note"
"From an Atlas of the Difficult World"
 
Savage, Gillian
"Garden of Delight"
 
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
"Supernatural Love" (from her book, The Lamplit Answer) is an outstanding poem. There are a number of other very good ones in The Lamplit Answer and another book, Portraits and Elegies. "Supernatural Love" is included in The Norton Anthology of Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. I am respecting Ms. Schnackenberg's wish that her poems not be included here or elsewhere on the Web.
 
Shoffstall, Veronica (Link not working, Nov. 2003)

 
Simon, Paul
"Homeward Bound"
"I Am a Rock" .....(more Simon)
 
Smith, Robert
"Watching Marguerite"
"Even So"
 
Sorensen, Laura
"All Stuck Through"
 

"Void"
"Truth"
"Babylon, A Prophecy"
..... (more "Void")  

Weigl, Bruce
"Song of Napalm" ..... (more Weigl)
 

Wheelock, John Hall
"Aphrodite, 1906"
"Night Thoughts in Age"
 

Williams, C. K.
"Fifteen"
"The Mirror"
"Helen"
 

Wolf, Bill
"Rothko and Cassandra"

 
Zitt, Joseph
"Psalm 183".....(more Zitt)
 
_____, Dusty
"Initiated in Agony".....(more Dusty)
 
--Anonymous
"Butterfly"  

--Another Anonymous
Poem #1
Poem #2

 
 
 
Do you know of really good poems expressing genuine feeling which I've missed? Email me: Lucius@mail.serve.com or luciusf@hotmail.com .....Read my own poems.
 
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The entry for Creedon's "Pub Poem" is new as of 9/8/98;
that for Savage is new as of 4/2/99;
that for Wheelock, as of 4/16/1999;
that for Menon, as of 7/10/1999;
that for Wolf, as of 11/6/1999;
Kathy M. added; "more Void" link corrected; 09/30/2001;
Larkin added, 03/03/2002;
Alexie and Simon links changed, 11/02/2002;
Links corrected, 08/08/2005;
Links corrected, 12/26/2005;
Links corrected, 04/21/2006;
Links corrected, 12/23/2006;