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 mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter	Mary Jean Chan	2019
wishing	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
who will be the messenger of this land	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Blood History	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2019
From “Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book”	Christina Rossetti	1915
From “Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book”	Christina Rossetti	1915
A Winter Scene	Henry David Thoreau	1895
Pilgrims	Henry David Thoreau	1895
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	Walt Whitman
Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels	Vijay Seshadri	2019
Paper Cuts	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2019
For Katy	Rodney Jones	2019
Coyote	Alexander Posey	1910
Collude	Bhanu Kapil	2019
Taking the Poem from the Poet	Devi S. Laskar	2019
Fall	Didi Jackson	2019
Flyover Country	Caki Wilkinson	2019
Who Is Less Than a Vapor?	Rowan Ricardo Phillips	2019
From “A Brief History of Fathers Searching for Their Sons” [5. Portrait of a Father After His Son’s Memorial Service]	Rigoberto González	2019
Freedom	Saadi Youssef	2019

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