PHOTO POEMS

Kids, Keys, Photography

Your kids
Your keys
They are your family photo app,
When the sun shines bright,
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Blessings Mitembo

Matrimony

(Matrimony-Advertiser would like to hear from well-
educated Protestant lady, under thirty, fair, with view to
above, who would have no objection to work Remington type-
writer, at home. Enclose photo. T. 99. This Office. Cork
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Andrew Lang

Narcissus, Photographer

"...a frozen memory, like any photo,
where nothing is missing, not even,
and especially, nothingness..."
-- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up"
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Erica Jong

The Testing Of The Sirens

The night, dark-cloaked like a procuress, brought
him to me, willing, light as a shadow,
speaking words of love
in some tender language I do not know ...
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Kamala Das

Café Comedy

She

I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed.
I've never seen him-that's the funny part.
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Robert Service

I Have Become Very Hairy

I have become very hairy all over my body.
I'm afraid they'll start hunting me because of my fur.

My multicolored shirt has no meaning of love --
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Yehuda Amichai

Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day

Calmly we walk through this April's day,
Metropolitan poetry here and there,
In the park sit pauper and rentier,
The screaming children, the motor-car
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Delmore Schwartz

Nostalgia And Complaint Of The Grandparents

Les morts
Câ??est sous terre;
Ã?a nâ??en sort
Guère.
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Donald Justice

Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day

Calmly we walk through this April's day,
Metropolitan poetry here and there,
In the park sit pauper and rentier,
The screaming children, the motor-car
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Delmore Schwartz

Café Comedy

She

I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed.
I've never seen him - that's the funny part.
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Robert William Service

Suburbia

O man with a Position, prithee tell,
How is't you mould your sal'ried life so well;
Holding in lofty scorn that lowly mob
Of 'Blokes' who earn mere 'wages' at a 'job'.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Dome Of Sunday

With focus sharp as Flemish-painted face
In film of varnish brightly fixed
And through a polished hand-lens deeply seen,
Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air
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Karl Shapiro

June

The blue forest, chilled and blue, like the lips of the dead
if the lips were gone. The year has been cut in half
with dull scissors, the solstice still looking for its square
on the calendar. Perhaps the scissors were really
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Denise Duhamel

Photo/picture

A photo is something
that speaks a thousand words,
and talks the thought a mouth can't say.
A photo is a reflection
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Joie Gonayon

The Recent Military Salute

Walk as a horse in honor of the service

Draw his memory filled with trolleys stuffed with unidentified bodies

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Mehdi Othman

What If I Die Today?

what if I die today?
will I go to hell or heaven?
will I die as a thief?
will I die as a witch?
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King Hemsttone

My Love

Memory still fresh
Holding beautiful memories
I remember how it all started
Like it was just yesterday
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Preskila Ondiek

Antessa And I

Inspired by a photograph

Antessa and I are standing near the rock.
We are posing for the photographer.
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Marlon Pitter

Out Of Play

Picking sides, I’d go by you
Beautiful pictures, in my head u drew
Memorable times, my mind you blew
Out late nights, till we catch the flu
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Chevon Jacquees

Canticle Of Love 2

"He's handsome"
"Is this him?"
He asked as he caught her
Staring at the photo on her phone
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Pleasant Ajayi

The Flower

I take a bath three times a day,
If need be so four times I will.
Wear the best tuxedo that ever has been;
But she prefers the flower still.
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Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze

My Universities

I learned not only from those
who brightly beam out of golden frames,
but from everyone whose ID photo
didn't come out quite right.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko