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
First Probe	Barry Ballard	2003
The Question of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Barbara Hurd	2003
Lupine Ridge	Peggy Simson Curry	1955
Outside Abilene	Harley Elliott	1975
Nocturne: Georgia Coast	Daniel Whitehead Hicky	1950
A Walk Along the Old Tracks	Robert Kinsley	1998
blessing the boats	Lucille Clifton	2001
Passing Through Albuquerque	John Balaban	1991
A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach	Fleda Brown	1993
Jerimoth Hill	Tom Chandler	2002
My Soul	Ember Ward	2003
To People I Hear Talking Loudly on Their Cell Phones	James Stevenson	2003
Write About a Radish. . .	Karla Kuskin	2003
God Went to Beauty School	Cynthia Rylant	2003
Harriet Tubman	Eloise Greenfield	2003
And You Thought You Were the Only One	Mark Bibbins	2003
Stealing The Scream	Monica Youn	2003
[Where do words come from?]	Vénus Khoury-Ghata	2003
Cicada	John Blair	2003
Monologue for an Onion	Suji Kwock Kim	2003

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