Poetry from Steve Bloom



     
     
Steve's Poems

I collect here all the poems I have written that I'm willing to share with the world. The only exceptions are available through the "Special Features" section of this website. The poems appear below in alphabetical order by title. I have marked a selection with asterisks that I would like to suggest might be included in a compilation of "The Essential Steve Bloom." I do this with some trepidation since if you are simply browsing at random and choose to select only those poems that I have marked in this way, you might miss the one that I wrote specifically with you in mind (even if I was unaware that I was doing so at the time). Let me urge you, therefore, to include some of the unmarked poems in your random browsing as well. You never know what you might discover. 

It's my hope that there are at least a few great poems here, my belief that most of the rest are at least worth your time and attention. You may feel as if a few are merely interesting attempts at poems but I choose to share them with you anyway because they are, well, interesting. 

All poems reserve the right to change without notice.
     
     

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A Birthday Greeting *

A Different Point of View
A Country Walk
A Funny Language
A Poem Is
A Republican Member of Congress Speaks about January 6, 2021
A Rusted Bottle Cap
A Sonnet Ruthlessly Stripped of All Non-Essential Words *
Abraham Lincoln
Advice or Philosophy *
After
Alive
Almost *
Although Sometimes
Americana
An Athiest Contemplates the Death of a Squirrel
And Then for Something Completely Different
And You Thought *
Angry Bull Steakhouse *
Another Country
Another Driving While Listening to Verdi Poem *
Another Question for You to Ponder *
Ants
Appetites *
April 10, 2006, New York City *
April Snow
April Window
Archipelago Day *
As *
At the Saturn Poetry Reading
At the Window
Atilla *
Audiovisual Poem *
Back Home
Bargain
Basic Training
Beaver
Because *
Becoming
Bee Watching
Belfast, Northern Ireland *
Belfast, Northern Ireland-II
Bio *
Bird Thought
Blindfolded *
Book Review *
Bottom Feeders
Candles and Lists and Rats *
Cascade Falls *
Central Park Counterpoint
Changes
Chester Vermont *
City Life *
Cleanliness
Clock Speed *
Clouds
Coffee Bar *
Collision Course *
Colorful *
Committing Serial Poetry *
Compare and Contrast
Confirmation by Translation
Confluence *
Conspiracy of Flowers *
Contemporary Times *
Contest of Faith
Courage *
Crab Spiders
Credo *
Curriculum Vitae *
Dark Ages
Dawning

Day of Remembrance
Death and Privileges *
Definition *
Definition II *
Dialogue *
Dialogue II
Dinner among Friends
Discards *
Distant Shore
Dreams of Immortality *
Ears and Hearts *
Encounter *
End of the Rainbow *
Every Poem *
Except You *
Explain This
Exploration Leads to Discovery
Faithful
Far from the Madding Cow
February Beach *
Fences
Final Page
Finally I Understand Why *
Fireflies *
Floods
Flower Plots *
Fog *
For a Song *
For What It's Worth
Four Stanzas in Search Of *
Freedom
Gazing

Genius Relativity *
Global Warming
gniknihT
Gold *
Great Circle of Life *
Green Ribbons
Greetings
Growing
Guitar
Half a Dozen Candles *
Hammer
Hard to Imagine
Harriet and Flo
He Was the Kind of Man Who
Hear! Hear! *
Historical Note
Home is Where *
Horizons *
Horse Shit
How can I Tell You
How to Get Rich *
How, What, Who
I Do not Know *
I Don't Understand
I Have Heard it Said *
I Have no Need to Curse You *
I Predict
I Think I Am Just Going to Sit
I Think of You
I Wake Up
If I Told You
I'll Think of a Title for This Poem Some Other Time
Illegal Border Crosser *
Imagine
In a Name
In Memoriam *
In the City
In the Forest
In the Meadow
In the Men's Room at Carnegie Hall *
Infrequently Asked Questions *
Inside Out
International Tour
Invisible *
Isotopical
It Is During that Season
It Makes You Wonder
It Takes a Lifetime
January 15
January 20, 2001 *
Just in the Nick of Time
Life Is (not)
Like a Sunset Sky *
Liszt Poem
Loneliness *
Looking Forward
Losses *
Lost and Lost
Love Child *
Love Poem #573
Madness *
Making Friends *
Mapuche *
May Day Trilogy *
Meditation *
Meditations 1-6
Message
Metaphysical Speculation
Minutes *
Miscellaneous
Missing in Reaction *
Missisquoi
Mississippi *
Modern Times
Moments *
Monday, February 9, 7:55 pm

Moonlight
More about Clocks
Most Important Word in the English Language
Motherless Day *
Mountain Memories *
Name a Cloud after Me *
New Year, Gaza, 2008-2009 *
New York Questions
New York, Upstate, One Day, Three Thoughts
Nine Black Robes
Not Like Everyone Else *
Not Quite a Summer Evening
Note to the Artist
Notice of Baggage Inspection *
Notice *
Nursing Mother
Observation and Proposal *
Obsession *
Ocratization
Okapi
Old Friend *
On an Ice Floe *
On the Bench
On the Road
On the Tree
One Sided
One Step Forward
Other Side of Niagara
Overbaugh Place
Parable of Spiders and Flies
Parable
Partners in Genocide *
Passing the Old Church
Pearls *
Pebbles
Perfectly Legal
Personal *
Philosophical Conundrum *
Photograph *
Pieces
Plattsburth,
NY—April 8, 2024 *
Poetic Justice
Poetry and Tyranny *
Poets Walk
Postcript *
Prison Artist *
Problem Solving
Prophesies *
PTSD
Quarks
Question
Radical
Raincoats
Rainwalkers
Reading Between the Names *
Refuge *
Regulation
Rembrandt
Self Portrait
Resurrection
Riddle *
Rivers
Russain Runs to Glory
Sand and Brick
Sarah's Exercise
Schubert's Trio in  E-flat  Major, op. 100
Searching
Secular Requiem *
Seed for Yourself
Self Expression
Self Portrait *
Self-Reflection
Shadows *
Sharing Poem
Sharing
Shedding Light
Sheer Genius
Simpligance
Sixty-Two Words
Skipping
Smoke Signals
Some
Sometimes

Sometimes You Get a Break
Somewhere
Souvenir de Paris
Spirit of the Ancestors
St. Marks Bookshop *
Standing and Understanding
Stars *
Statement of Context
Steve's Birthday Wish, 2015 *
Steve's Secret to a Long and Productive Life
     I *         II          III 
Still There
Still
Stone Lions
Summer 2009
Super Shooter *
Terror of the Baroque
Thank You Note
Thanksgiving *

The Bakery in Oldenburg
The Bell *
The Clock *
The Debt *
The Disobedient Child
The Garden
The Love for Three Operas *
The Love of Leaves
The Man Had a Theory *
The Missing Pen *
The Storm
The World According to
There Is a Difference *
They Are Coming Back
Things We Can Do for Eight Hours
This Is a Poem About
Thoughtful *
Today I Bumped Into a Friend
Today I Heard the News
Tolling the Future *
Tonight
Top Ten Things I Have to Keep Secret
Tribute
Twenty-Five Years
Twisted
Two Boats
Two Definitions
Two of a Kind
Two Questions
Typo
Unexpected
Unforgettable
Universal Language
Up on an Extension Ladder

Upgrade *
Valentine's Day
Variation on a Theme by Jacques-Lucien Monod
Visitation
Visiting the Falls
Waiting *
Wakes
Walk in Beauty
What I Learned from the 2020 Presidential Election
What I Would Like
What the Wet Paint Sign Does Not Mean
What to Think *
Where You Find Yourself *
White Magic
Whose Memories, Our Memories
Why I Read the Sports Pages *
Why2K *
Wild *
Will It Ever Get Old?

Window
Window 2
Winter Church
Wise Men
Without Strings
You and I *
You Left the Room
Your Country *