Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
The Moving Truck Poem	Andru Defeye	2017
Seed of Mango, Seed of Maize	Lynne Thompson	2007
Langston Won’t Stay In His Grave	Lynne Thompson	2018
I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One	Xan Forest Phillips	2022
Lineage Anagrams II	Lillian-Yvonne Bertram	2022
from “Consequences of a Heavy Heart”	Jennifer Firestone	2022
I, New York	Lam Lai	2022
The Treasure	Robinson Jeffers	1925
More Letters Found Near a Suicide	Frank Horne	1922
On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church	Frank Horne	1922
Toast	Frank Horne	1922
To a Persistent Phantom	Frank Horne	1922
Immortality	Frank Horne	1922
West Coast Sounds—1956	Bob Kaufman	1965
A Birth Mother Wears A Costume Her Daughter Will Never Fit In	Lynne Thompson	2020
When Nothing Else Will Do	Lynne Thompson	2021
Sea Ranch Psalm	Julia B. Levine	2021
Netherland	Julia B. Levine	2014
Psalm with Near Blindness	Julia B. Levine	2021
Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me	Waverley Turner Carmichael	1922

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