Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethkewas an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1908
CountryUnited States of America
rowing boat breathe
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
shadow visible
The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
pain fire bones
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
bangs kingdoms
In the kingdom of bang and blab.
death suicide mark
Time marks us while we are marking time.
eye longest race running shakes
What shakes the eye but the invisible? Running from God's the longest race of all