Terra firma
home from the water
the children make me a present
of a stick
Poems on the topic: child
Poems on the topic “child” on Poets.by.
Straight shooter
the first morning
of my promise not to lie
my promise of the child in me
I say bring me
a gun to wear
red locks almost look natural
Churchyard
a dead rose is tending
some other air
the ordinary pains us
at the burial of a little boy
Child workers
children employed
to supply our flags
dull eyes like organ keys
pressed down
that could not be fixed
to whistle
but otherwise quiet
and will do as bid
the river is a letter
from an unknown hand
Grownups
no other money no other time
to make use of all alone
my wife tells me she thinks
she is with child
flinging off my hat
I sit with the wind
Warmongers: six haiku
a half-moon
over the maps of several
poor countries
that sullen bastard will go at midnight
take the child and dance it
in his arms
guarded by his horse
the soldier is a flying army
in his head
going to be married
so the rape is hushed up
mouths receive the sacrament
whose bread
would pay for a war
blood on the back stairs
not capable of bearing children
Progeny
I spent all morning preserving
a collection of cries
work and desire
greed and fear and love
to show publicly if I should die
without children
Quick study
fleet as decay
the arson’s child
where I am in all
knowledge and experience
like a well
Alterity
I believe in the face
a miracle of change and inner child
like a grave that’s able to sing
under a hat and eyebrows
The big question
the child’s question
was very angry
and began to talk openly of my guts
a cunning blubber
who let this complaint and I be friends
wakened by extraordinary weather
Industrial revolution
war comes from the east
black like the bird who takes sad children
the city conquered play
I have not lived but to fight
Halfway house
so tender and melancholy
they cry like a child
on meeting with civil discourse
at the halfway house
but the poor souls at supper
fall out about saying grace
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