Gerald Stern poet from United States was born on February 22, 1925, date of death is unknown. Poems were written mainly in English language. Dominant movement is political.
Poem of the day
The Voice
I was the height of a folio, my bed just
backed on the bookcases sombre Babel,
everything, Latin ashes, Greek dust
jumbled together: novel, science, fable.
backed on the bookcases sombre Babel,
everything, Latin ashes, Greek dust
jumbled together: novel, science, fable.
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Poems by topics
- Age
- Alone
- Amazing
- Anger
- Animal
- Anniversary
- Architecture
- Art
- Attitude
- Beauty
- Best
- Birthday
- Business
- Car
- Change
- Children
- Christmas
- Communication
- Computers
- Cool
- Courage
- Dad
- Dating
- Death
- Design
- Diet
- Dreams
- Education
- Environmental
- Envy
- Equality
- Experience
- Failure
- Faith
- Family
- Famous
- Fear
- Finance
- Fitness
- Food
- Forgiveness
- Freedom
- Friendship
- Funny
- Future
- Gardening
- God
- Good
- Government
- Graduation
- Great
- Happiness
- Happy
- Health
- History
- Home
- Hope
- Humor
- Imagination
- Intelligence
- Jealousy
- Jingle Bells
- Knowledge
- Leadership
- Learning
- Legal
- Life
- Love
- Marriage
- Medical
- Men
- Miracles
- Mom
- Money
- Morning
- Movies
- Music
- Nature
- Patience
- Patriotism
- Peace
- Pet
- Poetry
- Politics
- Positive
- Power
- Relationship
- Religion
- Respect
- Romantic
- Sad
- Science
- Smile
- Society
- Sports
- Strength
- Sympathy
- Teacher
- Technology
- Teen
- Thankful
- Time
- Travel
- Trust
- Truth
- Violence
- War
- Weather
- Wedding
- Wish
- Women
- Work
