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Poems by James Tate

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10/17/2020 Itinerant In Space 377 Quatrain
12/26/2017 The Loch Ness Monster 2208 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Snail, Stretch of Time 908 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Life Is Fragile As Is Poetry 534 Sonnet
12/05/2016 River Romance 711 Verse
11/25/2016 A Castle In the Sky 972 Quatrain
11/21/2016 Music That My Grandchildren Play 690 Light Verse
11/11/2016 House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel 1511 Quatrain
10/03/2016 Rhythms of Literary Art 668 Narrative
10/02/2016 Diagnosis Blubber 1088 Rhyme
09/30/2016 From the Grave 680 Quatrain
06/12/2016 Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim 3556 Rhyme
06/11/2016 Same Dirty Dishes 1207 Free verse
05/27/2016 Haiku Glass Objects 967 Haiku
05/24/2016 Hieroglyphs and Holograms 806 Quatrain
05/22/2016 Purple and Red Hat 1095 Quatrain
03/08/2016 Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones 690 Rhyme
03/02/2016 Tiger Cat 1467 Quatrain
03/02/2016 Cyber Family Poetry Soup 810 Quatrain
01/27/2016 Imagination 1308 Quatrain
12/26/2015 What Mom Likes About Christmas: the Day After 726 Quatrain
12/22/2015 A Star Is Born 1207 Quatrain
11/27/2015 Smiling Kingfish 895 Quatrain
11/21/2015 Scarred Hands 854 Quatrain
08/03/2015 The Little Train That Could 2113 Rhyme
07/31/2015 Ringing Bells of Love 780 Rhyme
07/29/2015 The Little Red Devil 1290 Quatrain
07/06/2015 Donut Hole 2711 Quatrain
07/03/2015 Laughter In School 1871 Limerick
06/30/2015 A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars 1325 Quatrain
06/28/2015 Hit Me With Your Best Shot 893 Rhyme
06/28/2015 Altar and Rose Short Version 696 Quatrain
06/23/2015 Lion Without a Mane 1312 Rhyme
06/17/2015 My Precious Stuff 809 Rhyme
06/16/2015 Wolfgang Mozart In Five Lines 829 Quintain (English)
06/12/2015 His All Seeing Eye 789 Quatrain
06/08/2015 Einstein's Relatives 939 Rhyme
06/08/2015 Advice For New Poets 850 Quatrain
06/05/2015 Multi-Task Joe 968 Quatrain
08/21/2014 Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose 1896 Quatrain
08/21/2014 For Lack of a Smile 2091 Narrative
08/21/2014 Spiked Heels 1534 Pastoral
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 903 Shape
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 807 Shape
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two 1021 Dramatic Verse
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part One 1146 Dramatic Verse
09/29/2013 My Soul 921 Free verse
12/02/2012 Light's Effusion 1161 Rhyme
10/28/2012 Autumn Daunting Goes 1132 Quatrain
10/05/2012 Partly Cloudy Pastiche, Catie 2306 Diamante
10/05/2012 Bio James 1124 Bio
10/04/2012 The Drunken Pen 1039 Free verse
08/19/2012 The Shovel 907 Quatrain
08/10/2012 Hey Kid, Who Did You Say Was Old 1223 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Priceless Treasure 1166 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Family Heirlooms 3653 Quatrain
07/31/2012 On the Ocean Waves 1083 Free verse
03/19/2012 Soaring Around Heaven 1216 Sonnet
03/11/2012 Last Night While Asleep 1046 Quatrain
03/09/2012 Mellow Years 789 Quatrain
01/19/2012 Candidates 807 Rhyme
08/22/2011 Salty Sentinels 1178 Couplet
08/04/2011 Riddle 967 Quatrain
08/03/2011 Garish Galapagos Turtles 1823 Quatrain
08/02/2011 Now, I Lay Me Down To Sleep 1402 Narrative
04/16/2011 Carefree Etheree 840 Etheree
03/09/2011 My Soul 1290 Free verse
03/09/2011 Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing 4311 Free verse
03/08/2011 A Child Jabbers Spondees 2219 Quatrain
03/02/2011 Super Bowl 1750 Haiku
02/25/2011 Three Blind Men and a Horse 1647 Quatrain
02/25/2011 Grandfathers Clock Revisited 1229 Prose Poetry
02/23/2011 Stream of Life 984 Dodoitsu
02/20/2011 The Name Is James 1452 Enclosed Rhyme
02/16/2011 Magnetic Force 2007 Couplet
02/16/2011 Flicker of the Mind 1155 Rhyme
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part 1237 Narrative
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - First Part 952 Narrative
02/10/2011 Websteristic 925 Light Verse
02/10/2011 Humpty Dumpty Smoked Out 1402 Clerihew
02/08/2011 Tale of Tails 1066 Quatrain
02/07/2011 The French General 1204 Clerihew
02/06/2011 Architects Warning 1048 Rhyme
02/04/2011 Four Fabulous Years In the Key of F 982 Couplet
02/03/2011 Valentine's Legend - Adaptable 1055 Quatrain
02/02/2011 The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again 1049 Couplet
02/01/2011 An Altar and a Rose 1021 Quatrain
02/01/2011 Taxes 1637 Limerick
01/26/2011 Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space 1090 Rhyme
01/26/2011 Crystal Treasure 924 Narrative
01/25/2011 Finding Jesus 1235 Free verse
01/24/2011 Historic Creature From Jurassic Park 1347 Narrative
01/22/2011 Pluto Downgraded 1060 Narrative
01/22/2011 Have You Seen My Lovely Miss 1058 Ballad
01/21/2011 My Dog Spot 1981 Light Verse
01/21/2011 Dog Prodigy 1037 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Sunbeam Journey 1098 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Rooster Crows 1306 Rhyme
01/11/2011 Poet's Narcissus 857 Quatrain
01/10/2011 Mystery of the Shoe 1275 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
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