Poem-a-Day

The only daily poetry series publishing new work by today’s poets.

Poem-a-day

^{as Emanuel Morgan}

How terrible to entertain a lunatic!
To keep his earnestness from coming close!

A Madagascar land-crab once
Lifted blue claws at me
And rattled long black eyes
That would have got me
Had I not been gay.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on November 15, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

Title	Author	Date
By Night with Torch and Spear	Timothy Donnelly	10/27/2011
A Young Poet	Jane Miller	10/26/2011
Nights On The Peninsula	D. Nurkse	10/24/2011
The Helmsman	H.D.	10/23/2011
Water	Ralph Waldo Emerson	10/22/2011
The Bus through Jonesboro, Arkansas	Matthew Henriksen	10/21/2011
Potentially Interesting & Secretly Devastating	Tina Brown Celona	10/20/2011
[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]	Katie Ford	10/19/2011
My Pentagon	Heather Christle	10/18/2011
Bright Felon DVD Extra/Alternate Ending	Kazim Ali	10/17/2011