Poems

West Wind In Winter Another day awakes. And who – Changing the world–is this? He comes at whiles, the Winter through, West Wind! I would not […]

Your Own Fair Youth Your own fair youth, you care so little for it– Smiling toward Heaven, you would not stay the advances Of time and […]

Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land Gi’e me a lass with a lump of land, And we for life shall gang thegither; Tho’ […]

Katy’s Answer My mither’s ay glowran o’er me, Tho she did the same before me, I canna get leave To look to my loove, Or else […]

My Peggy Is a Young Thing My Peggy is a young thing, Just enter’d in her teens, Fair as the day, and sweet as May Fair […]

The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy Now wat ye wha I met yestreen Coming down the street, my Jo, My mistress in her tartan screen, Fow […]

136 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center Tail turned to red sunset on a juniper crown a lone magpie cawks. Mad at Oryoki in the shrine-room […]

A Desolaltion Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my […]

A Supermarket in California What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious […]

America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America […]