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"I Met a Genius" by Charles Bukowski

I met a genius on the train

today

about 6 years old,

he sat beside me

and as the train

ran down along the coast

we came to the ocean

and then he looked at me

and said,

it's not pretty.

it was the first time I'd

realized

that.

"No Swan so Fine" by Marianne Moore

"No water so still as the

dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,

with swart blind look askance

and gondoliering legs, so fine

as the chinz china one with fawn-

brown eyes and toothed gold

collar on to show whose bird it was.

Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth

candelabrum-tree of cockscomb-

tinted buttons, dahlias,

sea-urchins, and everlastings,

it perches on the branching foam

of polished sculptured

flowers--at ease and tall. The king is dead.

"City Trees" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The trees along this city street,

Save for the traffic and the trains,

Would make a sound as thin and sweet

As trees in country lanes.

And people standing in their shade

Out of a shower, undoubtedly

Would hear such music as is made

Upon a country tree.

Oh, little leaves that are so dumb

Against the shrieking city air,

I watch you when the wind has come,—

I know what sound is there.

"Shark's Teeth" by Kay Ryan

Everything contains some   

silence. Noise gets

its zest from the

small shark's-tooth

shaped fragments

of rest angled

in it. An hour   

of city holds maybe   

a minute of these   

remnants of a time   

when silence reigned,   

compact and dangerous   

as a shark. Sometimes   

a bit of a tail   

or fin can still   

be sensed in parks.

"Harlem" by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

 Does it dry up

     like a raisin in the sun?

     Or fester like a sore—

     And then run?

     Does it stink like rotten meat?

     Or crust and sugar over—

     like a syrupy sweet?

     Maybe it just sags

     like a heavy load.

     Or does it explode?

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Welcome to our Public Poetry Project! In attempting to spread our interest for poetry and stimulate conversation with our community or whomever our project may reach, for the next few weeks we will be taping poetry to streetlamps on the University of Illinois Campus in Champaign-Urbana. These poems you happen upon on campus will all be posted here and we encourage everyone to please comment with their reactions or critique and submit/post their own writing and art inspired by these poems. We would love it if you shared recommendations of other poets and poems you enjoy as well. Basically, whatever thought process or stream of consciousness the extensive genre of poetry leads you to. Thanks for visiting us and we hope you share our enthusiasm.