Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: 1960s
Going Downtown to Buy Some Pills
By Jack Collom
The big yellow house
up the hill a blue-green house
across a gray house
Ho Ho Ho Caribou
By Joseph Ceravolo
Leaped at the caribou.
My son looked at the caribou.
The kangaroo leaped on the
Airplanes
By Anne Waldman
Airplanes take us where we’re going and leave us there,
Warming Up
By Anne Waldman
It’s so cold in here I can’t do anything
Wind Force
By Bernadette Mayer
Sea like a mirror.
One. Ripples with the appearance of scales formed, but without foam crests.
Corn
By Bernadette Mayer
The corn they sought
Was sown by night.
The Red and the Yellow and the Blue Men
By Vito Hannibal Acconci
First, they get up, and they take these ups and downs in stride.
Using a Trot
By Vito Hannibal Acconci
He said: “Straight from the horse’s mouth.”
He said that was straight from the horse’s mouth.
Introduction
By Aram Saroyan
In the middle of night
in Brightlingsea
Two Poems
By Don Weingarten
There is a man in pajamas
standing on the ledge.