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 —

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