They Toil Not
Said the lily to the top,
will you kindly, kindly stop
spinning.
Search
Search results
Cheerful, Kay Sage, in English Clear filters
Smoke
It is bad enough
to have
a cigarette
and no match,
but it is worse
to want
a cigarette
while you are
smoking one.
Eight-Day Clock
Morning yawning
11 leaden
noon too soon
1 undone
5 alive
7 heaven
9 divine
10, 11, 12 and 1,
more, more, more
fun
night tight
Morning yawning... .
Pegasus
I’m riding for a fall
and I know it
and I don’t care at all
and I show it.
I’m riding for a fall
with an awful clatter;
but if it didn’t hurt at all,
would it matter?
Credit
Take your chance
when it comes your way;
take it today,
not tomorrow.
Take it
whether you like it or not
and if you can’t pay for it,
borrow.
Miscalculation
I’m robbing Peter
to pay Paul,
a tactical error
I’ve made—
for Peter
has simply
missed
nothing at all,
and Paul
does not
really
want
to be paid.
Full Measure
If you put
all your eggs
in one basket,
at least you will have
a basket full
of eggs.
Laundry
I took my laundry out to iron—
quite a natural thing to do—
it had been crumpled for much too long
and I hoped I could make it look like new.
And what do you think they said to me,
as though I were doing wrong somehow;
“What is the matter? What are you doing?
What is the reason? Why do you have to?
Why do you iron your laundry now?”
I’ve put my laundry back in a bundle,
nothing could make me try any more;
but it’s not my fault if they find tomorrow
more of a mess than there was before—
And I'll go, right now, to the end of the street
and buy myself a brand-new sheet.
Heroics
Because I run
it does not mean
I am not out of breath;
my courage comes from being
scared to death.
Compensation
After a day
of careless depravity,
I go to sleep
by force of gravity.
Describe a feeling — we’ll find a poem
Or try: