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: D-F
The Panhandle, Enchanted
By Max Finstein
sun is first coming through the eucalyptus early morning
To Praise a Common Vegetable
By Max Finstein
the question you asked
in the center of the world we were making
Jane in the Box
By Barbara Fischer
Undone. Only a head, a fine
cheek and throat his chisel cut
from white. She waits to become a thought,
The Dreams
By Karen Fish
Night arrives solid and heavy
more than several blocks long—to displace
its weight and float like a tanker over us.
The Teacher
By David Fisher
When I was a teacher
I taught the truth, viz.,
The two great levelers are
Expedition of a Child
By Rolf Fjelde
when out walked I
down fell the sky,
a backward boom
On Their Roundness
By Rolf Fjelde
His kind decree: we should not cut ourselves
Upon sharp edges;
So, when that parent rib was fleshed,
Ma Goose: The Interrogation
By Jane Flanders
Who killed Cock Robin?
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
What’s in the cupboard?
Concerto No. 2 in A Flat Major
By Hildegarde Flanner
In the poor doldrums of the day
The shuffling sails hung empty until John Field
Blew music toward them, and suddenly
Image on a Curving Surface Seen in Evening Traffic
By Hildegarde Flanner
What do I see? What do I wish to tell.
How haunting the shadow of a metal stair
Circling a tank is in the evening sun?