Sandburg Poems - Poems about Sandburg

... Beat the drums; aye, beat the drums! Make them go stark raving mad— These likes of Emperor Jones. 1 The criminals' courts play house. Adzes don't cut their own tails. 2 Where are Clinton, Bu......Read the rest...

...Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a......Read the rest...

...Carl Sandburg 'FOG'......Read the rest...

...Carl Sandburg 'THE PEOPLE ! YES'                /////  / _\////               __ \  )              \     /               |   |       people power= one man/one vote......Read the rest...

...I love so much the book company, More than anything in the world, More than cats or butterflies, Looking at the books in my room, soothe me, Henry James amazes me, what intelligence, Yachar K......Read the rest...

...The Beach Boys sang about the sloop, John B. They weren’t the first, nor would they be the last. John Bethel built this sixteen-foot-long boat in sixteen forty-seven, in his yard. A sloop had o......Read the rest...

...Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire smokestacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. Carl Sandburg PURPLE PANSIES ......Read the rest...

...Carl Sandburg Life is a garden; What’s not to like? You can’t grow an onion without proper soil. You peel back the rocky top and remove it, You haul off...Read the rest...

...Carl Sandburg Precious, this life is, so swift and so fleeting, wrapped in enigma, like an onion you peel. It offers itself to the one who is willin......Read the rest...

...They wouldn’t let me be White Oh I wanted to be Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to play I gave them Milton, Poe and Millay I stood before that panel......Read the rest...

...Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)......Read the rest...

...Where is the great engine of life? How many mechanics does it take to keep it running smooth as a baby's bottom? All those wheels and sockets and spindles --- must need great care; The sc......Read the rest...

...As a poet who likes to make things rhyme, It has been a mystery to me why some prefer "Free Verse". I rarely, if ever at all, understand how to write in that style. Perhaps, that is why I chose it......Read the rest...

...MINI VACATION sweetness of four days off in a row to pitter, to dream, to combat the clutter and dust, even the walls how have i missed that? to dream on paper with dot to dots, morse ......Read the rest...

...Another World Series I lay down and watched as the Cubs won it in ten A victory after one hundred and eight years of frustration My hometown team - the Mets didn't mention it this ......Read the rest...