Penny's Poetry Blog

Description of Spring,  wherein eche thing renews, save onelie the lover The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, With gree...

from Saint Augustine Blues  Chorus Six Dollars in the bucket collect for the street singer. Old man with beads paints a chinaberry ...

Expecting Inspiration Watching cars and people something I do a lot. Sitting near the alley trying to bum a smoke. Those rich folks ...

Ballade of the Poet's Thought A poet was vexed with the fume of the street,     With tumult wearied, with din distraught; And very...

A Song for Mother's Day Mother, you gave me sun and stars, Great hills, and rivers undefiled, For, when you gave me life, you gave...

The Spring Though you be absent here, I needs must say The Trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay,       As ever they were wont ...

Early May in New England Strawberry-flower and violet Are come, but the wind blows coldly yet; And robin's-egg skies brood sunny c...