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Poems by James Tate

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10/17/2020 Itinerant In Space 311 Quatrain
12/26/2017 The Loch Ness Monster 2009 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Snail, Stretch of Time 745 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Life Is Fragile As Is Poetry 496 Sonnet
12/05/2016 River Romance 651 Verse
11/25/2016 A Castle In the Sky 939 Quatrain
11/21/2016 Music That My Grandchildren Play 550 Light Verse
11/11/2016 House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel 1350 Quatrain
10/03/2016 Rhythms of Literary Art 613 Narrative
10/02/2016 Diagnosis Blubber 917 Rhyme
09/30/2016 From the Grave 638 Quatrain
06/12/2016 Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim 3196 Rhyme
06/11/2016 Same Dirty Dishes 1052 Free verse
05/27/2016 Haiku Glass Objects 918 Haiku
05/24/2016 Hieroglyphs and Holograms 618 Quatrain
05/22/2016 Purple and Red Hat 1023 Quatrain
03/08/2016 Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones 643 Rhyme
03/02/2016 Tiger Cat 1414 Quatrain
03/02/2016 Cyber Family Poetry Soup 664 Quatrain
01/27/2016 Imagination 1246 Quatrain
12/26/2015 What Mom Likes About Christmas: the Day After 651 Quatrain
12/22/2015 A Star Is Born 1146 Quatrain
11/27/2015 Smiling Kingfish 752 Quatrain
11/21/2015 Scarred Hands 774 Quatrain
08/03/2015 The Little Train That Could 1945 Rhyme
07/31/2015 Ringing Bells of Love 729 Rhyme
07/29/2015 The Little Red Devil 1161 Quatrain
07/06/2015 Donut Hole 2600 Quatrain
07/03/2015 Laughter In School 1816 Limerick
06/30/2015 A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars 1106 Quatrain
06/28/2015 Hit Me With Your Best Shot 745 Rhyme
06/28/2015 Altar and Rose Short Version 562 Quatrain
06/23/2015 Lion Without a Mane 1132 Rhyme
06/17/2015 My Precious Stuff 772 Rhyme
06/16/2015 Wolfgang Mozart In Five Lines 663 Quintain (English)
06/12/2015 His All Seeing Eye 655 Quatrain
06/08/2015 Einstein's Relatives 882 Rhyme
06/08/2015 Advice For New Poets 787 Quatrain
06/05/2015 Multi-Task Joe 801 Quatrain
08/21/2014 Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose 1720 Quatrain
08/21/2014 For Lack of a Smile 1926 Narrative
08/21/2014 Spiked Heels 1371 Pastoral
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 752 Shape
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 756 Shape
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two 976 Dramatic Verse
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part One 971 Dramatic Verse
09/29/2013 My Soul 880 Free verse
12/02/2012 Light's Effusion 974 Rhyme
10/28/2012 Autumn Daunting Goes 999 Quatrain
10/05/2012 Partly Cloudy Pastiche, Catie 2152 Diamante
10/05/2012 Bio James 980 Bio
10/04/2012 The Drunken Pen 987 Free verse
08/19/2012 The Shovel 853 Quatrain
08/10/2012 Hey Kid, Who Did You Say Was Old 1182 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Priceless Treasure 1089 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Family Heirlooms 3571 Quatrain
07/31/2012 On the Ocean Waves 1022 Free verse
03/19/2012 Soaring Around Heaven 1045 Sonnet
03/11/2012 Last Night While Asleep 887 Quatrain
03/09/2012 Mellow Years 739 Quatrain
01/19/2012 Candidates 760 Rhyme
08/22/2011 Salty Sentinels 1106 Couplet
08/04/2011 Riddle 927 Quatrain
08/03/2011 Garish Galapagos Turtles 1644 Quatrain
08/02/2011 Now, I Lay Me Down To Sleep 1348 Narrative
04/16/2011 Carefree Etheree 797 Etheree
03/09/2011 My Soul 1125 Free verse
03/09/2011 Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing 4197 Free verse
03/08/2011 A Child Jabbers Spondees 2134 Quatrain
03/02/2011 Super Bowl 1619 Haiku
02/25/2011 Three Blind Men and a Horse 1585 Quatrain
02/25/2011 Grandfathers Clock Revisited 1185 Prose Poetry
02/23/2011 Stream of Life 936 Dodoitsu
02/20/2011 The Name Is James 1364 Enclosed Rhyme
02/16/2011 Magnetic Force 1936 Couplet
02/16/2011 Flicker of the Mind 1031 Rhyme
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part 1069 Narrative
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - First Part 886 Narrative
02/10/2011 Websteristic 874 Light Verse
02/10/2011 Humpty Dumpty Smoked Out 1326 Clerihew
02/08/2011 Tale of Tails 875 Quatrain
02/07/2011 The French General 1154 Clerihew
02/06/2011 Architects Warning 997 Rhyme
02/04/2011 Four Fabulous Years In the Key of F 918 Couplet
02/03/2011 Valentine's Legend - Adaptable 987 Quatrain
02/02/2011 The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again 896 Couplet
02/01/2011 An Altar and a Rose 859 Quatrain
02/01/2011 Taxes 1551 Limerick
01/26/2011 Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space 983 Rhyme
01/26/2011 Crystal Treasure 792 Narrative
01/25/2011 Finding Jesus 1067 Free verse
01/24/2011 Historic Creature From Jurassic Park 1294 Narrative
01/22/2011 Pluto Downgraded 895 Narrative
01/22/2011 Have You Seen My Lovely Miss 905 Ballad
01/21/2011 My Dog Spot 1818 Light Verse
01/21/2011 Dog Prodigy 984 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Sunbeam Journey 1049 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Rooster Crows 1153 Rhyme
01/11/2011 Poet's Narcissus 781 Quatrain
01/10/2011 Mystery of the Shoe 1118 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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