Submissions by Saroian, Eric ( 67 texts )
Texts
- yes / no; title: "Six Words"
- Every time this adagio of Mozart's concerto for oboe plays; title: "Music for My Ashes"
- My days are gliding swiftly by; title: "Shining Shore"
- My true love clasped me by the hand; title: "At Home in Staten Island"
- Sit down. Now let us rest the burden here; title: "The Gold Standard"
- I'm learning to be a Buddhist in my car; title: "Commuter Buddhist"
- Long ago there lived a powerful huntress named Helena. She had sworn; title: "Helena and the Moonstone"
- It was déjà vu all over again
- Who’s there? I can’t seem to make out anything or anyone; title: "Is Light Enough?"
- He liked the days he could sit on the couch; title: "Waiting for Snow"
- Johnny Ford come lately; title: "Johnny Love Song"
- Stand there, still; title: "Equinox"
- I read once that they traveled in flocks big as hurricanes; title: "Passenger Pigeon"
- I never knew my mother; title: "How Many Miles to Babylon?"
- Et tu, Brute?
- The dancers are done with the day’s demands—; title: "The Dancers"
- I want to make a neat assortment of my life; title: "The Spice Store"
- I would pass you a can; title: "Canned Fruit"
- Even the lies I tell myself are sometimes true; title: "Even the Lies"
- Dear wild and wandering friend; title: "Henry James letter to Isabella"
- Tokyo/ October 4
- July 19, 1896
- The One/ Alone and white; title: "The Stairway of Jade"
- I will always be on your side; title: "I will always be on your side"
- Feather dusters in the sunset; title: "Housekeeping Song"
- So you have swept me back; title: "Eurydice"
- A star glide, a single frantic sullenness; title: "A Waist"
- You love the roses - so do I. I wish
- Oh, what good is any speech of mine? You won't listen; title: "Oh, what good is any speech of mine"
- The purest and most thoughtful minds
- Oh my poor great fat fool of a father; title: "Oh my great fat fool of a father"
- There is material enough in a single flower
- Looking at stars, which seem eternal; title: "Looking at Stars"
- If I had a wife; title: "If I had a wife"
- What this town needs is beauty; title: "What This Town Needs is Beauty"
- Her hand in my hand; title: "Her hand in my hand"
- Prince, I am the happiest of women; title: "I am the Happiest of Women"
- Let’s go. Let’s be somewhere awhile; title: "Little Trip"
- I was born and bred in Fermanagh; title: "All at Sea"
- So long had he withheld his hands; title: "Desire Like This"
- One year I spent trying to creep; title: "Goat Dance"
- Love me little, love me long; title: "Love me little"
- Once I prayed to god; title: "Got away from Me"
- It was easy enough; title: "Circe"
- She left for good one time
- Oh my lovely ones; title: "Last Lullaby - the Selkie Returns to the Sea"
- Nor skin nor hide nor fleece; title: "Lethe"
- If I could, I would sing you to sleep; title: "A Variation on “To Say to Go to Sleep”"
- the shadow of your sleeping body
- Then came the darker sooner; title: "The Darker Sooner"
- I find you where I found you years ago; title: "Saint"
- Sleep, sleep, my soul, let sorrow close thine eyes; title: "Sleep, Sleep my Soul"
- My father was all but undone by my mother’s death. In the
- My father and my stepmother… fiddled with the interior plans until
- When I dream about Lincoln Illinois it is always the way it was
- Angkor Wat, January 7, 2014; title: "Angkor Wat"
- When we met we spoke of Music; title: "We Spoke of Music"
- I have seen castles and mountains, monuments to; title: "Unfathomable"
- When the city moon appears on the square; title: "When the city moon appears on the square"
- Crescent moon, barely alive, stands on heaven; title: "At Night"
- Night. The city turned calm; title: "Night"
- I know not what to do
- Savior! I've no one else to tell
- To hear an Oriole sing
- Bind me -- I still can sing
- I reason, Earth is short —
- Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —