Monsters Poems

A millionbillionwillion miles from home
Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)
Why are they all so big, other children?
So noisy? So much at home they
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
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Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.
By then we had made our covenant with silence,
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desert sucks upper water to store in the deep
trees, plants, herbs and grasses are about to die
sunshine reflects on mirages there
mirages elude and mislead the travelers,
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I weep for Adonais -he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years
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A SONG of the good green grass!
A song no more of the city streets;
A song of farms--a song of the soil of fields.
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In winter we’ll travel in a little pink carriage
With cushions of blue.
We’ll be fine. A nest of mad kisses waits
In each corner too.
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Gone are my people, but I exist yet,
Lamenting them in my solitude...
Dead are my friends, and in their Death my life is naught but great
Disaster.
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Part I

INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a true Taste is as rare to be found as a true Genius. That most men are born with some Taste, but spoiled by false education. The multitude of Critics, and causes of them. That we are to study our own Taste, and know the limits of it. Nature the best guide of judgment. Improved by Art and rules, which are but methodized Nature. Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets. That therefore the ancients are necessary to be studied by a Critic, particularly Homer and Virgil. Of licenses, and the use of them by the ancients. Reverence due to the ancients, and praise of them.
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For Linda Foster


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Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air
and the beasts and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

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(for whom forced me to leave that orphan) ...
(I hear an orphan's tear while covered with his fear)

ohh, , on that list
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they found him walking along the freeway
all red in
front
he had taken a rusty tin can
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Where the remote Bermudas ride
In th' Oceans bosome unespy'd,
From a small Boat, that row'd along,
The listning Winds receiv'd this Song.
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It was 1963 or 4, summer,
and my father was driving our family
from Ft. Hood to North Carolina in our 56 Buick.
We'd been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew
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Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
On the bare field - I wonder, why, just now,
They seemed terrible, so wild and strange,
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Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
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Upon this Primrose hill,
Where, if Heav'n would distil
A shower of rain, each several drop might go
To his own primrose, and grow manna so;
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As I drifted on a river I could not control,
No longer guided by the bargemen's ropes.
They were captured by howling Indians
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I am really shocked to behold the pink city
Blood when flows near by the green field
From the ill fatted souls of their mother’s womb
Tear when turns red eyes yet steeped in sorrows
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In the darkness of the night,
Eerie creatures come to sight,
Slithering through the shadows deep,
Their presence makes your heart skip a beat.
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We had dinner with our daughter, her daughter (our granddaughter) the other night
and before we had been fed.
my mind drifted to a time when our daughter was a child…afraid of monsters neath her bed.
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As children we feared the monsters that hid under or beds.
We grew out of that fear,
Leaving us prey to the monsters that sleet beside us, IN our beds.
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There are monsters inside
each and every one of us.
There are dolphins inside of us too.
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We ain't going to let
No monster bully us down
We ain't going to let
No monster push us around
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Just like every other normal day, I stepped out of my house.
My eyes were filled with dreams and my mind was full of ideas.

I planned my day before I could plan my outfit.
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MONSTERS

When we are young if we are lucky our parents and family form the team who keep us warm and safe and help fulfill our dreams.
They're around us every day to help alleviate our dread.
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When we are children, if we're lucky, our parents form a team…they teach us how to love and show us how to dream….they keep us safe and warm and happy…they make sure that we're well fed…they are the ones, when we're afraid of the dark, who check for monsters neath our bed.

But the children of war…and their parents…are not so lucky because day or night…on the ground or in the air…how can parents protect their children when there are monsters everywhere?
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Shaggy was driving his Van. He Saw a Pizza Hotel.

Shaggy Screamed in Excitement.
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