Poetry and Song Lyrics

Poems

• Art
  • Five Paintings by Georgia O'Keefe (NEW!)
    • Blue Flower
    • Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur
    • Bella Donna
    • Bear Lake, New Mexico
    • Horse's Skull with White Rose
  • The Yokohama Museum Poems
    • Picta Fragmenta (wall paintings from Pompei)
    • Für schlaflose Nächten (oil painting by Kitawaki Noboru)
    • Femme à la tête de roses (statue by Salvador Dali)
  • The Death of Miroslav Holub
  • To Marilyn Hacker

• The Problem of Lesbian Sheep

• Writing On Skin

• Rap In Blue

• Heather at The Pink Poodle

• Love
  • Tabby
  • Tight
  • I Miss You
  • Lynch Mob
  • 5 Haiku
  • Holly Hurst
  • Paganki
  • Lightning Rod
  • Comet
  • Trickle-down Theory

• Non-Jealousy
  • Green-Eyed Monster
  • Climbing Free
  • 3/4

• The Temples of Kamakura
  • Tokei-ji
  • Bug Hot
  • The Riddle of the Lotus

• Genesis

• Reflections

• Mary Anne's Garden

• Haiku

• "The wall between myself and bliss"

• High School & College Poems
  • Friday Night / Saturday Morning
  • Saturday Night / Sunday
  • San Gregorio
  • San Gregorio II
  • "cold never causes mirages, so"
  • Sabbath
  • Your Name (7 Haiku)
  • To Colleen

My Translations Of Other Poets

• Wang Wei (699-759)
  • Deer Park Cottage

• Francesco Petrarca a.k.a. Petrarch (1304-1374)
  • Sonnet CXL

• Yuan Huang-tao (1568-1610)
  • Climbing Mount Hua

• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870)
  • Rimas (98 poems)

• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
  • Letters to a Young Poet, 1903-1908 (in progress)
  • The Book of Hours, 1905
    • "I find you there in every single thing"
  • New Poems, 1907
    • Love Song
    • Eranna to Sappho
    • The Olive Orchard
    • Song of the Women to the Poet
  • New Poems, 1908
    • Archaic Torso of Apollo
  • uncollected poems, 1913-1918
    • "We know not ...", March 1913
    • To Music
  • Duino Elegies, 1923
    • The First Elegy (draft)
    • The Second Elegy (draft)
  • appendix to Duino Elegies
    • Antistrophes
  • The Sonnets to Orpheus, 1923 (55 poems)
  • uncollected poems, 1923-1926
    • Duration Of Childhood

• Emmy Hennings (1885-1948)
  • Dancer
  • Morpheine (draft)
  • "I am so multiple"

• Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
  • Song of the Seven Maidens

Poetry By Others

• Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
  • Simplex Munditiius

• Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
  • Arab Love-Song

• W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
  • The Song of Wandering Aengus
  • A Drinking Song

• E. A. Robinson (1869-1935)
  • Eros Tyrannos

• Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)
  • The Picket Fence (adapted by G P Skratz)

• G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
  • The Great Minimum
  • The Last Hero
  • Love's Trappist
  • The Strange Music

• Jean Arp a.k.a. Hans Arp (1887-1966)
  • Kaspar Is Dead (translated by G P Skratz)

• Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)
  • Ode To Joy

• Andrew Harvey (1952-)
  • He That Regardeth The Clouds Shall Not Reap

My Songs

• And I'm Yours

• Anyone Could Fall In Love Tonight

• Brighter Day

• Desert Varnish

• Heart Like A Dove

• Maybe, But

• Merry Meet and Merry part

• Shout Out Loud

• Some Distant Star

• Time To Prune The Roses

• Too Many Times (1997 original)
  Too Many Times (1998 revision)

• Way Beyond The Flesh

• Weaver Of Love

• What Do I Mean To You?

• Words Fail