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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.

Title Author Year
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Afton Water Robert Burns 1791
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
Gitanjali 45 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Sonnet XLIV Charlotte Smith 2021
A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood Suzi F. Garcia 2021
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Riddle Jericho Brown 2019
To My Brother Vera Brittain 2018
No Longer Ode Urayoán Noel 2018
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
The Fool’s Song William Carlos Williams 2017
Daedalus, After Icarus Saeed Jones 2017

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