Poems About: ELEGY

Duino Elegies of Rilke
Are whose elegies?
Occasioned by whose death?
And, who is composing them? read more »

Communism, dead,
but still unburied, awaits
its elegy red read more »

You are my living
elegy

Breathing beating beasting feasting read more »

poets of centuries,
their words ever so
-eloquent
whisper their lives read more »

There was a boogaloo poet
Who ate the measly quatrains
And the thin sonnets and the chewy elegies
And the sagas and the epics read more »

On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall. read more »

I do not understand
as to why the people
are weeping,
crying, read more »

In a quadrille of his flimsy fingers
He lambently imposed tranquility
In between the brunt of his calloused soldiers
That the phalanges strangulated in a knot read more »

A Requiem for Bartok

Viola Concerto
which he never finished read more »

The man who wrote Legends of the Fall
Wrote; 'Don't fall in love as if fallin' off a dock at night'
But when you are struck by the thunderbolt
How do you not fall? read more »

I before my death,
Have composed,
An elegy of the Earth,
Which (after war) read more »

For James Schuyler

I had wanted to write your elegy
on the subway, read more »