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Poems by James Tate

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10/17/2020 Itinerant In Space 272 Quatrain
12/26/2017 The Loch Ness Monster 1689 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Snail, Stretch of Time 697 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Life Is Fragile As Is Poetry 451 Sonnet
12/05/2016 River Romance 625 Verse
11/25/2016 A Castle In the Sky 905 Quatrain
11/21/2016 Music That My Grandchildren Play 520 Light Verse
11/11/2016 House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel 1259 Quatrain
10/03/2016 Rhythms of Literary Art 581 Narrative
10/02/2016 Diagnosis Blubber 874 Rhyme
09/30/2016 From the Grave 601 Quatrain
06/12/2016 Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim 2733 Rhyme
06/11/2016 Same Dirty Dishes 1011 Free verse
05/27/2016 Haiku Glass Objects 873 Haiku
05/24/2016 Hieroglyphs and Holograms 566 Quatrain
05/22/2016 Purple and Red Hat 943 Quatrain
03/08/2016 Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones 595 Rhyme
03/02/2016 Tiger Cat 1375 Quatrain
03/02/2016 Cyber Family Poetry Soup 594 Quatrain
01/27/2016 Imagination 1183 Quatrain
12/26/2015 What Mom Likes About Christmas: the Day After 583 Quatrain
12/22/2015 A Star Is Born 1107 Quatrain
11/27/2015 Smiling Kingfish 714 Quatrain
11/21/2015 Scarred Hands 736 Quatrain
08/03/2015 The Little Train That Could 1753 Rhyme
07/31/2015 Ringing Bells of Love 637 Rhyme
07/29/2015 The Little Red Devil 1087 Quatrain
07/06/2015 Donut Hole 2450 Quatrain
07/03/2015 Laughter In School 1736 Limerick
06/30/2015 A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars 1028 Quatrain
06/28/2015 Hit Me With Your Best Shot 709 Rhyme
06/28/2015 Altar and Rose Short Version 526 Quatrain
06/23/2015 Lion Without a Mane 1094 Rhyme
06/17/2015 My Precious Stuff 745 Rhyme
06/16/2015 Wolfgang Mozart In Five Lines 615 Quintain (English)
06/12/2015 His All Seeing Eye 624 Quatrain
06/08/2015 Einstein's Relatives 833 Rhyme
06/08/2015 Advice For New Poets 754 Quatrain
06/05/2015 Multi-Task Joe 720 Quatrain
08/21/2014 Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose 1638 Quatrain
08/21/2014 For Lack of a Smile 1896 Narrative
08/21/2014 Spiked Heels 1329 Pastoral
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 712 Shape
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 710 Shape
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two 938 Dramatic Verse
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part One 928 Dramatic Verse
09/29/2013 My Soul 851 Free verse
12/02/2012 Light's Effusion 936 Rhyme
10/28/2012 Autumn Daunting Goes 940 Quatrain
10/05/2012 Partly Cloudy Pastiche, Catie 2079 Diamante
10/05/2012 Bio James 936 Bio
10/04/2012 The Drunken Pen 944 Free verse
08/19/2012 The Shovel 820 Quatrain
08/10/2012 Hey Kid, Who Did You Say Was Old 1099 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Priceless Treasure 1044 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Family Heirlooms 3512 Quatrain
07/31/2012 On the Ocean Waves 949 Free verse
03/19/2012 Soaring Around Heaven 1014 Sonnet
03/11/2012 Last Night While Asleep 854 Quatrain
03/09/2012 Mellow Years 694 Quatrain
01/19/2012 Candidates 717 Rhyme
08/22/2011 Salty Sentinels 1070 Couplet
08/04/2011 Riddle 892 Quatrain
08/03/2011 Garish Galapagos Turtles 1600 Quatrain
08/02/2011 Now, I Lay Me Down To Sleep 1297 Narrative
04/16/2011 Carefree Etheree 763 Etheree
03/09/2011 My Soul 1092 Free verse
03/09/2011 Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing 4118 Free verse
03/08/2011 A Child Jabbers Spondees 2097 Quatrain
03/02/2011 Super Bowl 1555 Haiku
02/25/2011 Three Blind Men and a Horse 1528 Quatrain
02/25/2011 Grandfathers Clock Revisited 1146 Prose Poetry
02/23/2011 Stream of Life 899 Dodoitsu
02/20/2011 The Name Is James 1329 Enclosed Rhyme
02/16/2011 Magnetic Force 1903 Couplet
02/16/2011 Flicker of the Mind 986 Rhyme
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part 1029 Narrative
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - First Part 844 Narrative
02/10/2011 Websteristic 833 Light Verse
02/10/2011 Humpty Dumpty Smoked Out 1234 Clerihew
02/08/2011 Tale of Tails 833 Quatrain
02/07/2011 The French General 1108 Clerihew
02/06/2011 Architects Warning 947 Rhyme
02/04/2011 Four Fabulous Years In the Key of F 887 Couplet
02/03/2011 Valentine's Legend - Adaptable 949 Quatrain
02/02/2011 The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again 864 Couplet
02/01/2011 An Altar and a Rose 813 Quatrain
02/01/2011 Taxes 1478 Limerick
01/26/2011 Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space 939 Rhyme
01/26/2011 Crystal Treasure 765 Narrative
01/25/2011 Finding Jesus 1035 Free verse
01/24/2011 Historic Creature From Jurassic Park 1258 Narrative
01/22/2011 Pluto Downgraded 861 Narrative
01/22/2011 Have You Seen My Lovely Miss 876 Ballad
01/21/2011 My Dog Spot 1782 Light Verse
01/21/2011 Dog Prodigy 945 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Sunbeam Journey 1011 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Rooster Crows 1099 Rhyme
01/11/2011 Poet's Narcissus 737 Quatrain
01/10/2011 Mystery of the Shoe 1031 Didactic
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Quotes

Quote Left Better to whet your appetite than whet your pants. Quote Right
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Quote Left Having gray hair doesn't matter, but having gray-matter matters. Quote Right
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