Poem Index

The following are poems that may be found on The Poetry of William Hammett. All are copyrighted. You may access them from the list below. You may also access any page on the site from the site map below each poem.

A

African Dream

After Reading Haiku

All Afternoon I Have Been Looking

All Saints' Day

All the Songs I Never Played

Along the Meridian Nerve

Apocalypse

April Mayhem

Artisan

Assumptions

Audacity of Ripples, The

B

Beyond

Big Sky Country

Bird, Branch, Sky

Bird on a Post

Birds on the Wire

Birth

Black Lady Mountain

Black Satin Dress

Blue Jay

Bowery at Dawn, The

Bowl of Fruit, A

Breach

Buddha's Tour Dates Have Been Canceled, The

Busker

C

Calypso

Cardinal

Carny

Carpenter, The

Catch, The

Christmas Eve

Circle

Circles in the Dirt

Coffee

Collateral Damage

Comet, The

Commuter Train

Connections

Continuum

Corner Bar, The

D

Daisy Chain

Dashiell

Day and Night

Dead Are Forever Writing Letters, The

Deeper Music

Deposition

Doppelganger

E

Eight Threads From the Morning Paper

Emily Dickinson, I Love You

Empty Chairs

Equations

Essence of a Poem

Eternity in the Key of C

Evening Is Full of Toads, The

Evenings in B Minor

Every Year

F

Faith

Falling Into You

Far Cry from Innisfree, A

Film at Eleven

Film Archive

Fishing by the Cutbank

Flower in the Desert, A

Footnotes in the Kingdom of God

Front Matter

Frozen Pond

G

Gardening in the Upper Case

Gazing at Sirius

Gemini Rising

Genesis

Gestalt

H

Hallway, The

Hedy Lamarr, I Love You

Herons

Hope

Hot Red Apocalypse

Hours of the Day

Husband Speaks to His Wife, A

I

I Have Heard Tales

Illusion

Importance of Buttered Toast, The

In the Wake of the Whale

In the Wings

Interlude

It Is a Fearful Thing

J

Jazz

Journeyman

K

Kite, The

L

Lake House, The

Lapidary

Lastly

Leaving Las Vegas

Lessons in Humility

Like a Wheel Rolling

Listening to the Beatles

Living in the Desert

Looking at My Bookcase

Lost and Found

Lotus

Lovingkindness

Lucid Dream

Luncheon on the Grass, The

M

Magic

Magnetism

Main Street

Man Who Carried Water, The

Marginalia

Meeting Mr. Tennyson

Memory of You, 1976, The

Meter and Rhyme

Midwest Carnival

Migrations

Miracles

Mona Lisa and the Buddha

Moon-Driven

Mountain Beyond the Meadow, The

Mountain, Plain

Mozart

Multiplication of Verbs and Fishes, The

Multiply the Answer by Pigeons

Multiverse

N

Need to Move On, The

New Beatitudes

New Orleans, April 2023

New York City Subway System, The

New York Times Crossword Puzzle, The

Night on the Ocean

O

Oak Cabinet

Old Man and the Cart, The

Old Sky

On Any Given Day

Once More by the Lake

Outcast, The

P

Paleolithic

Paradise Lost

Peach, The

Peaches

Peasant

Pebble of Bone, A

Perspective

Petal-Yellow Mantras

Philosophical Elm, A

Photograph

Piano Bar

Picasso in My Bedroom, The

Plane, The

Playing the Guitar

Plum-Sweet

Poaching Secrets from the Alchemist

Poet at Minimum Wage, The

Porch, The

Price of Admission, The

Prophet

R

Rag Collector, The

Reaching

Remington

Retrograde

Riding the Saint Charles Streetcar

Rolling Zen

Rue Montclair

S

Sacred Moment

Sacrifice of Isaac, The

Saints

Salvation Army Band

Sanctuary

Saxophone Perfume

Scarecrow

Scorpio

Scrimshaw

Second Time Around, The

Serendipity

Service Station Attendant

Shangri-La

Shed, The

Shotgun House

Silent Poem, The

Silhouettes

Simple Poem, A

Sliver of Moon, A

Small Sparrow

So Much Depends upon a Windowsill

Some Other Day

Some Things Are Never the Same

Spirit

Sounding

Speaking of Mata Hari

Stalemate

Still Life with Flowers

Stone Canyons

Stories

Strange Rivers

Sunset over Lake Pontchartrain

Swords into Plowshares

T

Tales Told to the Water

Tall Pine Trees in a Hurricane

Tapestry

Thousand Sitars, A

Threepenny Opera

Tibetan Slow Dance

Tomorrow I Will Be in Paris

Tracks

Tree in Barcelona, A

Tribe of Dreamers, The

Tryst, The

Turning of the Stars, The

Turning on My Axis

Twisted Symmetry

U

Undiscovered Country, The

Universe and Other Things, The

Upon Awaking

V

View

Vignette Noir

Violet Girl, The

Visiting Paris with Robert Bly

Visiting Saint Joseph Abbey

W

Waiting for the Mandala to Move

Wanderlust

War and Peace

Waterwheel

Wave-Particle Duality

We Write the Endings

Wine-Dark Seas

What If

When the World Goes Digital

Whitewater Bend

Wide River

Wine Country

Wink, The

Winter's Eve, A

Winter's Tale, A

Woman on the Subway, The

Woods at Yuletide, The

Wrestling with an Angel

Writing a Poem

Y

Yearning at the Time of Equinox

Yesterday

Yoga Hippie Chick

Z

Zen

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