Get Your Premium Membership

Sandburg Poems - Poems about Sandburg

Premium Member Imagination
...“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” Carl Sandburg. My creativity is soari......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, nature, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE LOVE
... Today I’m grateful for babies and for Carl Sandburg In today’s world they are the perfect pairing from which my gratitude is drawn… Because a baby, as Carl Sandburg said, is God’s opinion ......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Dance of Dances
... “Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg. Glowing like the roused firefly glows, Stirring souls, poetry just knows, Love, fire, boldest winds of desire......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, appreciation, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Quatern
Beat the Drums
... 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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, america, anger, discrimination, holocaust,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sounding Soundless
...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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Emagi Sandburg Fog
...Carl Sandburg 'FOG'......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, poems, weather,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Emagi Sandberg the People
...Carl Sandburg 'THE PEOPLE ! YES'                /////  / _\////               __ \  )              \     /               |   |       people power= one man/one vote......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, poems,
Form: Shape
The Best Company Ever
...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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, appreciation, art, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Purple Pansies
...Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire smokestacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. Carl Sandburg PURPLE PANSIES ......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Is a Garden
...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...

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Keola - Rhyme
...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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, joy, life, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Wouldn'T Let Me Be White
...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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T Wignesan
...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)......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, america, art, creation, culture,
Form: Free verse
Inside the Mikros Kosmos
...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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, creation, humor, life, science,
Form: Free verse
Freed Verse
...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......

Continue reading...
Categories: sandburg, analogy, confidence, conflict, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things