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Poems by James Tate

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10/17/2020 Itinerant In Space 250 Quatrain
12/26/2017 The Loch Ness Monster 1388 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Snail, Stretch of Time 666 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Life Is Fragile As Is Poetry 427 Sonnet
12/05/2016 River Romance 608 Verse
11/25/2016 A Castle In the Sky 886 Quatrain
11/21/2016 Music That My Grandchildren Play 503 Light Verse
11/11/2016 House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel 1197 Quatrain
10/03/2016 Rhythms of Literary Art 564 Narrative
10/02/2016 Diagnosis Blubber 844 Rhyme
09/30/2016 From the Grave 581 Quatrain
06/12/2016 Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim 2265 Rhyme
06/11/2016 Same Dirty Dishes 989 Free verse
05/27/2016 Haiku Glass Objects 845 Haiku
05/24/2016 Hieroglyphs and Holograms 539 Quatrain
05/22/2016 Purple and Red Hat 838 Quatrain
03/08/2016 Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones 555 Rhyme
03/02/2016 Tiger Cat 1357 Quatrain
03/02/2016 Cyber Family Poetry Soup 573 Quatrain
01/27/2016 Imagination 1129 Quatrain
12/26/2015 What Mom Likes About Christmas: the Day After 562 Quatrain
12/22/2015 A Star Is Born 1092 Quatrain
11/27/2015 Smiling Kingfish 689 Quatrain
11/21/2015 Scarred Hands 715 Quatrain
08/03/2015 The Little Train That Could 1671 Rhyme
07/31/2015 Ringing Bells of Love 544 Rhyme
07/29/2015 The Little Red Devil 1050 Quatrain
07/06/2015 Donut Hole 2353 Quatrain
07/03/2015 Laughter In School 1695 Limerick
06/30/2015 A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars 988 Quatrain
06/28/2015 Hit Me With Your Best Shot 690 Rhyme
06/28/2015 Altar and Rose Short Version 510 Quatrain
06/23/2015 Lion Without a Mane 1044 Rhyme
06/17/2015 My Precious Stuff 725 Rhyme
06/16/2015 Wolfgang Mozart In Five Lines 597 Quintain (English)
06/12/2015 His All Seeing Eye 604 Quatrain
06/08/2015 Einstein's Relatives 805 Rhyme
06/08/2015 Advice For New Poets 740 Quatrain
06/05/2015 Multi-Task Joe 687 Quatrain
08/21/2014 Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose 1573 Quatrain
08/21/2014 For Lack of a Smile 1874 Narrative
08/21/2014 Spiked Heels 1308 Pastoral
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 689 Shape
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 689 Shape
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two 914 Dramatic Verse
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part One 906 Dramatic Verse
09/29/2013 My Soul 834 Free verse
12/02/2012 Light's Effusion 918 Rhyme
10/28/2012 Autumn Daunting Goes 905 Quatrain
10/05/2012 Partly Cloudy Pastiche, Catie 2058 Diamante
10/05/2012 Bio James 913 Bio
10/04/2012 The Drunken Pen 921 Free verse
08/19/2012 The Shovel 802 Quatrain
08/10/2012 Hey Kid, Who Did You Say Was Old 1075 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Priceless Treasure 1015 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Family Heirlooms 3459 Quatrain
07/31/2012 On the Ocean Waves 929 Free verse
03/19/2012 Soaring Around Heaven 984 Sonnet
03/11/2012 Last Night While Asleep 835 Quatrain
03/09/2012 Mellow Years 672 Quatrain
01/19/2012 Candidates 695 Rhyme
08/22/2011 Salty Sentinels 1050 Couplet
08/04/2011 Riddle 877 Quatrain
08/03/2011 Garish Galapagos Turtles 1558 Quatrain
08/02/2011 Now, I Lay Me Down To Sleep 1267 Narrative
04/16/2011 Carefree Etheree 743 Etheree
03/09/2011 My Soul 1073 Free verse
03/09/2011 Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing 4033 Free verse
03/08/2011 A Child Jabbers Spondees 2043 Quatrain
03/02/2011 Super Bowl 1480 Haiku
02/25/2011 Three Blind Men and a Horse 1496 Quatrain
02/25/2011 Grandfathers Clock Revisited 1116 Prose Poetry
02/23/2011 Stream of Life 872 Dodoitsu
02/20/2011 The Name Is James 1298 Enclosed Rhyme
02/16/2011 Magnetic Force 1881 Couplet
02/16/2011 Flicker of the Mind 965 Rhyme
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part 996 Narrative
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - First Part 809 Narrative
02/10/2011 Websteristic 806 Light Verse
02/10/2011 Humpty Dumpty Smoked Out 1195 Clerihew
02/08/2011 Tale of Tails 806 Quatrain
02/07/2011 The French General 1072 Clerihew
02/06/2011 Architects Warning 921 Rhyme
02/04/2011 Four Fabulous Years In the Key of F 866 Couplet
02/03/2011 Valentine's Legend - Adaptable 924 Quatrain
02/02/2011 The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again 843 Couplet
02/01/2011 An Altar and a Rose 793 Quatrain
02/01/2011 Taxes 1441 Limerick
01/26/2011 Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space 916 Rhyme
01/26/2011 Crystal Treasure 748 Narrative
01/25/2011 Finding Jesus 1019 Free verse
01/24/2011 Historic Creature From Jurassic Park 1234 Narrative
01/22/2011 Pluto Downgraded 845 Narrative
01/22/2011 Have You Seen My Lovely Miss 857 Ballad
01/21/2011 My Dog Spot 1749 Light Verse
01/21/2011 Dog Prodigy 921 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Sunbeam Journey 990 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Rooster Crows 1068 Rhyme
01/11/2011 Poet's Narcissus 707 Quatrain
01/10/2011 Mystery of the Shoe 966 Didactic
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Quotes

Quote Left Better to whet your appetite than whet your pants. Quote Right
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Quote Left Having gray hair doesn't matter, but having gray-matter matters. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment | by James Tate