Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Song of the Cranes, by Su Shi

Away! Away! My birds, fly westwards now,
To ...

The Stork, by Su Shi

In my garden dwells a stork,
Docile, coming ...

Awakening from Sleep on a Spring Day, by Li Bai

Life is an immense dream. Why toil?
All day l...

By the Great Wall, by Li Bai

I Came the barbarian horde with the autumn;
...

Chuang Chou and the Butterfly, by Li Bai

Chuang Chou in dream became a butterfly,
And ...

Clearing at Dawn, by Li Bai

The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopp...

An Exhortation, by Li Bai

Do you not see the waters of the Yellow River
...

Lady Yang Kuei-Fei at the Imperial Feast of the Peony (II), by Li Bai

She is the flowering branch of the peony,
Ric...

Maid of Wu, by Li Bai

Wine of the grapes,
Goblets of gold--
And a ...

The Night of Sorrow, by Li Bai

A lovely woman rolls up
The delicate bamboo bl...

The Old Dust, by Li Bai

The living is a passing traveler;
The dead, ...

On the Ship of Spice-Wood, by Li Bai

My ship is built of spice-wood and has a rudder...

The Phoenix Bird Tower, by Li Bai

The Phoenix Bird Tower was situated to the nort...

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, by Li Bai

While my hair was still cut straight across my ...

The Steep Road to Shuh, by Li Bai

Alas! How precipitous! Alas! How high!
The roa...

To His Friend Departing for Shuh, by Li Bai

I hear the Tsang-tsung road
Is rough and rugge...

The Women of Yueh, by Li Bai

I She is a southern girl of Chang-kan Town;
...

finally got a real job, by Ray Heinrich

Living a bit west of washington d.c.
has nothi...

gone, by Ray Heinrich

so which side of the joke
happened to land whe...

the summer begins with snakes, by Ray Heinrich

on saturday
in the basement
opening
the doo...

The King of the Seas, by Stephen Crane

The Ocean said to me once,
"Look!
Yonder on ...

War is Kind, by Stephen Crane

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Becaus...

Batik, by Mark Turbyfill

Important pale asters
And leering lilies paint...

Last Season, by Mark Turbyfill

We two
Storm-sheathed buds
Slept
Upon the wi...

Rain-Night, by Mark Turbyfill

The dogged rain
Of unawakened growths
Is hurl...