Best Stevens Poems

I
Blades of grass slice past.
A striped assassin.
The tiger goes unnoticed.

II
Empowered by legend, 
The tiger grows strong.
Eroded by greed,
The tiger grows few.

III
Alone, he stalked, hunting prey, days on end.
Now he lies still, a striped, tattered trophy, alone.

IV
Two men.  
One tiger. 
One fate.

V
I remember two tigers.
One...

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I know what a poem
looks like.

I know how to make
my prose look like verse.

A little tuck here,
an indent there,

et voila! It’s verse! 
or worse ...

a pale imitation of seem.
(can I have some ice cream?)...

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a man and his gun
tripoli done come,for judge
quick to whip the case...

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Death in the Desert
Good man dragged though the streets
not expecting such an inauspiscous end
Islam lovely Islam giving such treets...

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Businessman poet Wallace Stevens
very creative with a poetic pen
A contemporary metaphysical wit
as 'Valley Candle' enigmatically  does sit...

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In Niagara Falls was born Carol LoTempio.
Her new name “April Stevens” was the one we would know.
She has a sweet and sultry voice that sounds keen.
April first sang at the age of fifteen.
With the recording “I’m In Love Again", her career had begun.
This Cole Porter...

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As morning broke
the world had grown solumn
one Saturday night he found only trouble
plucking a hard headed woman
from the moon's lonely shadow.
In great desperation
he hopped aboard a peace train
at last a parched flower 
had found sweetened rain-...

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Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetry to sell well...

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Wallace Stevens ' EMPEROR OF ICE CREAM'

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Morning has broken, lyrics with a gentle allure
Inspirational words from Cat Stevens, so peaceful, so pure
Possessed a complex mind     
Unique, a one-of-a-kind
Cat's music was mesmerizing, euphoria was assured...

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I compose poems like Wallace Stevens
by walking the streets of my town.
But unlike the esteemed Wallace Stevens,
I don't have to memorize or write my poems down.

I just turn on my cellphone's recorder,
then slowly whisper my word into it.
But instead of composing gems, like Wallace Stevens,
I...

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Irritated Steven wrote his anger triggers down.
His therapist read them, trying not to frown.
He asked his client to number them now
Number 106 was a fat dairy cow.

Number 214 was bird booby that was blue.
All together there were a thousand and two.
Everything made him mad –...

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Before the analysis
before the dissection
First came the reading
—the deepest of cuts

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)...

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Wallace Stevens said: 
"Poetry is not personal."
He tried never to divulge
anything about himself
in his poems.

Or so he said.
But, the work 
is self-revelatory, veiled confessions,
repeated choices -- water, sea motion,
weather, the sky -- introspective isolation --
those silences and descriptive phrases
that communicate and characterize.

Human, 
no one --...

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