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Poems about poetry

2026

Madness of Stars
Think
Sweet Sophia
Nothing Says I Love You
The Man Who Speaks Plainly
Too Many Nightingales
Out of Myself
Savage Humanity
Searching for Occupancy
Anima Song
New Adventures
Some Happy Song
What Are They?
Head Held High
Dig For Some Hope
A Man at Last
Take These To Heart
Grains of Salt
Floating Castle
If I Could
Lover and Guide
Shadows
Epilogue
You Have Helped Me
Bitterness
Inexperienced
No Ken At All
Whitman
Blaze II
Stronger Still
Blaze
Hard to Tell
Cleverness
Sufficiently Motivated
Fill In The Blanks
How I Hear It
Contra Kant
Very Lucky
New Mountain
Hors D'Oeuvres
Crown Jewel
Love Left Unsaid

2025

How Are You
Lost Voice
Standard Repertoire?
Demonstration
Talking To Myself
The One That Deserves To Be Heard
Come and See
Coauthor
Not Sole Composer
Bones on the Inside
New Dawn
Wander on Stormy Seas
What Waiting Means
If tomorrow will be any better
Broken Wing
Vassals of Despair
How much love
That Hollow Moon
Labor Pains
Thinking Begins
Yeats' Footsteps
New Hearts
Outside the Law
One More Line
Now and Then

2024

The Task of Man

2023

Doctor of Words
Strangeness of the Ordinary
That which wants to be said
Walking the Line
Rapt Futility
Saying New Sayings
Banishing Night
If He Would Speak Today
As Life May Yet Be
Elite Waters

2022

After "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost
Afterthought on the Romantics
Too Playful
Mingled Being
On this rock
Craftsman
What calls for poetry?
Words

2021

Lost Forest
Making Sausage
Power

2019

I have withdrawn from the world
The New Bird
Milton Usurped

2018

“Romance Revisited,” revisited

2017

A silence that no one has heard
The Muse

2016

After the Fall
A poem
Why write poetry
Three Rivers
Only Begin
Notes for Mr. Pound
Another ending
Valediction to Images
Song
The Choir

2014

Perspicuity (For Example)

2010

As I Wander
The man who knows