Poetry Enthusiast Pillows

"What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin Round Table

"Let me guess – you stayed late at your buddy's place helping him with a, quoth, poem."

Poet's Corner

"It's National Poetry Month, Marion, and by God we're gonna read some poetry."

"Young Robert Frost"

Early Literary Letters - Philip Larkin.

"Are you familiar with the poetry of John Donne?"

The New Colossus

Anteater at zoo points to sign on enclosure and says to family: 'It's not as if that's all I do. I write poetry, I'm very much involved in charity work ... why single out that one thing?'

T.S. Eliot calendar.

A man and a woman discussing poetry

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I got a little freaked out because where did the second road come from??

"Ahh...the beauty of feeling chickens It's an ode. It's a sonnet. It's, it's..." "Sheer poultry in motion."

"Once I start writing a poem, I can't stop."

Samuel Johnson

Emily Dickinson

Self Indulgent Teenager

Rudyard Kipling.

"It's not a very good simile but you'll be like an evening spread out against the sky."

With the aid of an abacus, Elizabeth Barrett Browning counts the ways.

'Poet Laureate' door 'Gone to lunch-back twixt 2 &3'

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"Permission to speak in rhyming couplets, sir!"

"Candice, your eyes are like two crystal-blue pools of habitual judgment."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Owing to an impetuous act of your Great-Great-Aunt Pumpkin's, we now have owls in the family."

"Walt Whitman may well have contradicted himself, Mr. Dobkin, but chances are he wasn't under oath at the moment."

Poetry debate

Pussycat says to Owl: 'This is rubbish, can we PLEASE do Ibiza next year?'

Two More Poems from Ted Hughes

Limerick Airport

Dog reads doggerel