POEM SHELF
Poems
An archive of poems, with poet, tag, search, and sorting filters.
Such A Shame / Talk Talk Such a shame to believe in escape 'A life on every face' And that's a change Till I'm finally left with an eight Te...
Clocks / Coldplay Coldplay Lights go out and I can't be seen Tides that I tried to swim against Have put me down upon my knees I beg, I beg...
When The Children Cry / White Lion little child dry your crying eyes how can I explain the fear you feel inside cause you were born into thi...
Imagine / John Lennon Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for to...
A Shrug of the Shoulders / Fernando PessoaWe generally give to our ideas about the unknown the color of our notions about what we do know: I...
Beautiful / E.E. CummingsBeautiful is the unmea ning of(sil ently)fal ling(e ver yw here)s Now
Cassiel's Song / Nick CaveWe've come to bring you home Haven't we, Cassiel? To cast aside your loss and all your sadness And shuffle off tha...
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond / E.E. Cummingssomewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have t...
VI / E.E. Cummingsbut mr can you maybe listen there's me & some people and others please don't confuse.Some people 's future is toothsome li...
In The Shadows / The Rasmus No sleep No sleep until I´m done with finding the answer Won´t stop Won´t stop before I find the cure for this c...
Star / Reamonn Reamonn Tell me if you got a problem Tell me if it's in your way Tell me if there's something bothering you Tell me what shou...
Idiot Prayer / Nick CaveThey're taking me down, my friend And as they usher me off to my end Will I bid you adieu? Or will I be seeing you s...
New Day / The Cure New day In heaven the ground is waiting For the dust The seed My love once more I shout New day Hold the air and gasp in...
Close to me / The Cure I've waited hours for this I've made myself so sick I wish I'd stayed asleep today I never thought this day would end...
Lovesong / The Cure Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am home again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am...
The Crack-Up / F. Scott Fitzgerald February, 1936 Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side...
Masters Of War / Bob Dylancome you masters of war, you that build the big guns, you that build the death planes, you that build all the bomb...
Street Spirit (Fade Out) / Radiohead Thom YorkeRows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these thin...
İstanbul / Michel ButorISTANBUL I woke up in the train, which was still moving. I lifted the curtain and looked out. I had never in my life...
Slaughter House Five / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are ur...
Seventeen Seconds / The Curetime slips away and the light begins to fade and everything is quiet now feeling is gone and the picture disappe...
Funeral Blues / Wystan Hugh AudenStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pia...
O Tell Me the Truth About Love / Wystan Hugh AudenSome say that love's a little boy, And some say it's a bird, Some say it makes the world g...
Everybody Knows / Leonard Coheneverybody knows that the dice are loaded everybody rolls with their fingers crossed everybody knows that the...