Poems begining by K

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Kenmare River

© Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

'Tis pretty to be in Ballinderry,

 'Tis pretty to be in Ballindoon,

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Killing The Love

© Anne Sexton

When a life is over,
the one you were living for,
where do you go?

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Krinken

© Eugene Field

Krinken was a little child,--
It was summer when he smiled.
Oft the hoary sea and grim
Stretched its white arms out to him,

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Kissing time

© Eugene Field

'T is when the lark goes soaring
And the bee is at the bud,
When lightly dancing zephyrs
Sing over field and flood;

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Kangaroo Power

© Henry Lawson

NOW, Yankee inventors can beat a retreat,

And German professors may take a back seat,

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Kiss

© Ruth Padel

He's gone. She can't believe it, can't go on. She's going to give up painting. So she paints Her final canvas, total-turn-off
Black. One long
Obsidian goodbye. A charcoal-burner's Smirnoff, The mirror of Loch Ness Reflecting the monster back to its own eye.
But something's wrong. Those mad Black-body particles don't sing Her story of despair, the steel and

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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties

© Hilaire Belloc

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

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Killing Flies

© Vernon Scannell

Compelled by their black hum

And accidental mischief, I

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Kooroora

© Henry Kendall

The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark,

A torrent beneath them is leaping,

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King Solomon And The Queen Of Sheba

© Vachel Lindsay


[The men’s leader rises as he sees the Queen unveiling
and approaching a position that gives her half of the stage.]

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Knowlt Hoheimer

© Edgar Lee Masters

I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
When I felt the bullet enter my heart
I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail
For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary,

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Kinsey Keene

© Edgar Lee Masters

Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank;
Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus;
Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading church;
A.D. Blood, several times Mayor of Spoon River;

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King Trisanku. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Viswamitra the Magician,
  By his spells and incantations,
Up to Indra's realms elysian
  Raised Trisanku, king of nations.

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Knowledge

© Louise Bogan

Now that I know
How passion warms little
Of flesh in the mould,
And treasure is brittle,--

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Kitanomaru Park

© Sukasah Syahdan

two-three Japanese frogs
suspended their croaks
and returned the quiet
to the nearby loch

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Kemang Afternoon Blues

© Sukasah Syahdan

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Had it not been for the traffic jam
You'd have thought being elsewhere
Most the niceties seemed so foreign
Speaking a tongue so unfamiliar

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K. A.

© Sukasah Syahdan

When my sun rises I don’t mind perishing
As long as I can embrace you till the end
And my heart can shout loud: I have loved.

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Keeping Going

© Seamus Justin Heaney

Piss at the gable, the dead will congregate.
But separately. The women after dark,
Hunkering there a moment before bedtime,
The only time the soul was let alone,
The only time that face and body calmed
In the eye of heaven.

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Key economy

© Ivan Donn Carswell

Words today are
how’d you say,
in sad retreat,
or obsolete?

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Krishna And His Three Handmaidens

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

AND where he sat beneath the mystic stars,
Nigh the twin founts of Immortality,
That feed fair channels of the Stream of Trance,--
To Krishna once his three handmaidens came,