Best Pluck Poems

THE POET'S PLUCK - Langston Hughes

I Dream a World
where all people will be
Walkers With The Dawn
and completely free

In The Time Of Silver Rain
is the fresh...

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Shall I Twice Pluck Thy Soft, Sweet Fruit

Should I court thee as moth to flame
sky to its wondrous blue?
Some say, love is but a fool's...

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To sing an anthem for doomed youth.
Why did I believe the clergy's untruth
and the politicians who I voted for in a polling booth.
and know i...

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a oxeye daisy
                      ...

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HARMONIES OF NIGHT

Weary wand'rer, stop and listen, 
Give heed to this soothing song,
The voice of the night wind carries
Words of peace and rest, be strong;

Strike...

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Eleven titles plucked from the exquisite poetry of Christina Rossetti

For my sweet child, petite Maude Clare,
Before The Paling of The Stars, I grieve
for my infant...

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I survived scarred but 
unscathed growing up Irish 
catholic. 
Mind numbing Masses  sung in 
Latin 
Ostentatious Corpus Christy 
processions through local 
streets
Ornately dressed priests
Eyes to the skies, garbage 
underfoot
Fair...

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Faithfully, THE TIDE RISES THE TIDE FALLS
Water sustains life; pulsing evermore.
A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE forever enthralls.
Golden lights brighten beyond the shore.

A PSALM OF LIFE repeats...

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The Poet’s Pluck – Christina Rossetti

     In MY DREAM I see A PORTRAIT
     And REMEMBER a girl...

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Dulce et decorum est,
or total hell on Earths past
oh world of many worlds,
how long will this one last,

Wild with all regrets,
though needs dictate
spells of incantations,
realisation...

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The Poets Plucker….. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Here in my cold lonely bed I ponder my all
I have FEARS in SOLITUDE of being alone
DEJECTION of my love...

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Woods launder no human friendship while freely growing.
Nature excels; man rebels - indeed, indeed, I cannot tell:
One sees a dell darken, then harkens the inward...

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What makes your smile cold?

On springtime colors bold?

Hummingbirds croon from afar

Wilder than tambourine,

Thrilling the night’s  gauze sheen.

Come, pluck the tangy guitar

Dance a belly-go-round,

Before grey...

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After Apple Picking one late fall day
as the gold sun hung low neath autumn's sky,
I took a turn, became ‘The Runaway’
onto The Road Not Taken,...

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Death goes a-begging, once we pluck his sting!
(Christ did it first, but we must do’t again!)
In Imitation of Christ, laugh and sing!

Though Christ has shot...

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