Poetry-Prompt: Writing a "Thing-Poem"

"The League of Quiet Persons (Mum Is the Word)," by Hans Ostrom

"Song for Billie Holiday," by Langston Hughes

It is Billie Holiday's birthday today.

"The Witch," by W.B. Yeats

"Gothic Fog," by Hans Ostrom

"Between Two Worlds," by Lord Byron

Canto XV, Stanza 99, of Don Juan:

"It Will Not Change," by Sara Teasdale

"She's Checking," by Hans Ostrom

in the Parkway Tavern, Tacoma,
i'd been drinking lemonade
for a half-hour or so.

a different waitress
came to the table. i
wondered if waitresses
and waiters like
to be called servers
now or not. i kept
this question to myself.

anyway, she said,
"what are you drinking?"
i said, "lemonade."
she said, "we don't have
lemonade." i said,
"i have been drinking
lemonade." she said,
"well, i'll check."



hans ostrom

"I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon," by Stephen Crane

"The Poet Speaks," by Georgia Douglas Johnson

"Death and Life," by Robert W. Service

Paranormal Poetry

Here is a list of about 20 "paranormal" poems--reading recorded for Youtube--from a wide range of authors--including Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Witch Wife") and Jorge Luis Borges ("Nightmare"):

Sara Teasdale's Poems

Here is a playlist of recorded readings of six poems by Sara Teasdale: