poetry quotes

• you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies
• out of the huts of historys shame
• like dust ill rise
• does my sassiness upset you
• im the dream and the hope of the slave
• not yet one common man
• no matter their colour
• in minor ways we differ, in major ways were the same
• we are more alike my friends than we are unalike
• puffy petulant face
• i used to know his father well
• id toddle safely home and die - in bed
• if i were fierce, and bold and out of breath
• men marched asleep
• all went lame; all blind
• gas! gas! quick boys!
• i saw him drowning
• tich miller wore glasses with elastolast-pink frames
• we avoided one anothers eyes
• have tubby! no! no! have tich!
• usually they chose me, the lesser dud
• tich died when she was twelve
• sneering at hockey players who couldnt spell
• Between my finger and my thumb   

  The squat pen rests
• My father, digging.
• the old man could handle a spade
• Just like his old man.
• I sat all morning in the college sick bay
• In the porch I met my father crying–
• Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple
• the bumper knocked him clear
• A four foot-box a foot for every year.
• Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
• And then my heart with pleasure fills,

  And dances with the daffodils.
• And I shall have some peace there
• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore
• I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
• Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
• I would spread the cloths under your feet:

  But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
• Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.