John W. Cooper's Poetry List
(click top items in table to sort by title, date, or form)
TITLE (or first line)  Date  Form 
A DEMON'S SESTINA OF A DYING MAN'S DREAM  Mar-94  sestina 
A LOVE NOTE TO A SIREN  Oct-94  prose poem 
ANT ELEGANCE 1975  couplets 
BROKEN SONNET OF FIVE HOMELESS  Jan-87  sonnet, broken 
BURNING TREE Oct-99 unclassified
Chapter one -- In a small shaded house  Aug-86  prose poem 
cracked voice  Dec-86  prose blues 
DEAR MISTRESS  Dec-86  sonnet 
dear mr cummings:it gives me  Sep-86  unknown 
DRINKING SONG OF HEROES  Jul-95  roundelay 
DYING DROIGHNEACH OF MY UNDERLYING BITTERNESS Jun-95  droighneach 
EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM Mar-94  villanelle, squashed 
ELEGY Oct-01 unclassified
ENKIDU AWAKES- THE SIXTH DAY Dec-95  grammatic parallelism 
EVERY RESTLESS NIGHT Dec-83  daisy chain 
for softlong hair  Nov-83  unknown 
FOREST  Jun-95  valentine 
- G - Mar-98 unknown
GOOD BOOK, BUT...  1976  hymnal stanzas 
GOSSIP IS MY GARGOYLE  Oct-94  sonnet, Shakespearean 
GUESSING MARLENE  Jun-95 englyn penfyr 
Happy she sits on my laughing shoulders  Dec-85  linked rhyme 
INSPIRATION X  Jun-95  ballad 
JEALOUSY Nov-95  unknown 
LAMINAR ANIMAL  Feb-87  palindromes - letter unit 
LOVE, UNQUOTE  Mar-96  short verse
MANDRAGORA  Nov-87  calligramme 
MESSENGERS  Jan-96  rondeau, broken 
MORNING SONG  Mar-97  sextilla 
MUSE  Feb-95  unknown 
ON QUITTING COFFEE  Mar-97  heroic couplets(?), broken 
On this dark blue rug Apr-84  prose poem 
OUTLINE  Aug-87  outline verse 
PERCHANCE TO DREAM  Jun-96  sonnet, Shakespearean 
PREACHING TO THE CHOIR Dec-89  sestets with repetons 
QUARREL WITH A BIT PART  Jan-96  rondeau redoubled 
ROGUESONG I Mar-84  sestet 
ROGUESONG II Feb-87  sestet 
SAY WHAT YOU WILL  Mar-97  sextilla, rocking meter 
song of a man whose friend  Mar-84  unknown 
TARZAN TRIPS FOREVER Apr-96  sestina 
TERRORWOCKY May-04 parody
THE END OF SUMMER Feb-97  sonnet, Shakespearean 
THE INNOCENCE OF EVIL May-94  haiku stanzas 
THE RAVEN Mar-94  unknown 
THE RING  May-94  unknown 
THE SPACE UNDER THE WINDOW (part of an e-book) Mar-97  heroic sestets, reversed rhyme 
THE SPORK CYCLE  Nov-95  haiku stanzas 
The sun that you see  1975  lyric quatrains 
THE UNFINISHED POEM Nov-90  sestets 
UNPOSTED ORACULARY May-04 parody
THE VIOLATION  Nov-95  sonnet, Shakespearean 
VAMPIRE Mar-97 sneadhbhairdne
VILLANELLE O' THE POET ROGUE  Oct-90  villanelle, Scot 
VILLANELLE OF THE POET'S LOAD 1979  villanelle 
WALKING THOUGHTS  Mar-94  sonnet, Shakespearean 
WATCH Oct-98 sonnet, Shakespearean
Weep softly, waves. Nov-80  palindrome - word unit 
what do you hear, love Apr-84  unknown 
WRITER'S HAZE  Nov-95  sonnet, broken 

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