Poetry

"The Drunken Boat" ("Le Bateau ivre") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. It...

You bit me,And when you lost your tooth,You blamed me.I guess self-awarenessIs for people with caninesInstead of fangs.S. V. Segal’s debut poetry compilation, (Un)Tethered, pulls us into moments of conflict—both internal and external—and...

In [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word “squelch” acts as a guide to Chernoff’s unique voice, which uses...

Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work. (Summary by BellonaTimes) Author - Various Authors. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date -...

“These are poems that go beyond the limits of words. By wrestling with the poems in 3rd i, by engaging with them, the world is more intensely lived. This guy is offering us everything. This is heroic poetry.” — John Marsden Author - Basil Eliades....

The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life. What then when we say ‘it breaks’? ‘I’m heart-broken’? Few of us escape a life without some measure of heartache and the pain it causes.In this volume we give full rein to our classic poets...

In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse...

About a boy who dreams of being a Superman and reading World Atlas all day long on his sickbed."17 POEMS, THE NUMBER OF MY AGE."POEM 1Outer SpaceThe most distant galaxies perceivablefrom Earth lie 13 billion light-years awayMilky Way got its namefrom...

Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when...

A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909). It is a variation of the French rondeau form. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a...

In the footsteps of Charles Bukowski comes Hosho McCreesh's magnum opus of drunk poetry. Mammoth in size and scope, DrunkSkull books is pleased to release the audiobook version of A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, a drunken, epic collection about death and...

A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Author - Edna St. Vincent Millay. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

POETRY BOOKSample Romance/Love Poems:A RARE LOVE LIKE THINE.I will love thee, dearUntil the sea runs dry.I will love thee, dearUntil the boulders melt with the sun.I will love thee still, dearUntil the mountains are overthrown.I will love thee still,...

A Gateway Has Opened is a poetry collection by Hong Kong-based poet, LIAM BLACKFORD, containing 36 missives on truth and reality, anger and rage, complexity and change, and power as manifested in people, corporations, governments, borders and...

Amy Levy was a British poet and novelist who is celebrated for her feminist positions and her engagement with homosexual romance during the Victorian era. Levy wrote stories, essays, and poems for periodicals, some popular and others literary. Her...

The Master Completion of Poetry from author T. Crawford Crawford. Featuring Lilith, Golden Caskets and additional non released poems util now! A Look in the Mirror - Title Poem explaining his existence. Lilith - Free form prose that expresses a unique...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of A Nautical Ballad by Charles Edward Carryl. Author - Charles Edward Carryl. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

I am the sonof manI am the onemade of clayI was driven by the callin my chestto see the seaI was driven by its saltcalling the salt in meIf I was melted by the seain such a chaos of the drownedthen leave my shadow on the palmand leave it there as old...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves. Perhaps now best known as the author whose book of the same name inspired the Masterpiece Theater series I, Claudius, Robert Graves wrote prolifically...

The poetry of Rick Savage.Rick Savage (Richard) was born in Manhattan, New York, in a year well before now. He was supposed to be a Jewish doctor, but life took him in other directions. He has been a cinematographer, director of special effects,...

Dr. Liz’ Pocket Book of Poems is subtitled a companion to Dr. Liz’ Life Launch series, which includes her Amazon #1, multi-international, best-selling memoir: Life Launch! Surviving the Storms of Physical and Sexual Abuse, Book One, and soon to be...

A time for harvest. The rich bounty of grain and fruit given by Nature ensures she has prepared everyone for the coming rigors. One last splash of rich, mature colour as everything ripens; colours of glory and then the slow release of her yearly...

In meteorological terms Spring begins on March 1st and runs through to May 30th. Nature transforms the landscape, colours the skies and begins her epic journey of renewal and offerings. Colour, energy and beauty all abound.Here, each and every day is...