William Carlos Williams Poems

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1.
This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
...

2.
The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
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3.
A Sort Of A Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
...

4.
"Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

You sullen pig of a man
you force me into the mud
with your stinking ash-cart!
...

5.
Blizzard

Snow falls:
years of anger following
hours that float idly down --
the blizzard
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6.
Danse Russe

If I when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
...

7.
Dawn

Ecstatic bird songs pound
the hollow vastness of the sky
with metallic clinkings--
beating color up into it
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8.
Complete Destruction

It was an icy day.
We buried the cat,
then took her box
and set fire to it
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9.
Arrival

And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom--
...

10.
Approach Of Winter

The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
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