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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
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Wedding Dress Michael Waters 2006
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
Spirit Maggie Nelson 2005
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Standup Sonnet Zeina Hashem Beck 2025
disagreement María Auxiliadora Álvarez 2025
“[Lady of all powers]” Enheduana 1994
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Faceless Tongo Eisen-Martin 2017
Not Dead, but Sleeping Clara Ann Thompson 1908
Displaced Mosab Abu Toha 2022
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood Henry David Thoreau 1943
Rainy Night Dorothy Parker 1926
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
Sea Charm Langston Hughes 1926
The Waiting Jane Wong 2021

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