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
Nighthawks	Yusef Komunyakaa	2020
Ink-Light	Natalie Diaz	2020
who will be the messenger of this land	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
i know the grandmother one had hands	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Elegy with Sympathy	Emily Skaja	2019
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Amores (VIII)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Christmas Day	Christina Rossetti	2018
The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life	Susan Rich	2018
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74)	William Shakespeare	1904
Let me confess that we two must be twain. (Sonnet 36)	William Shakespeare	1904
Lullaby (with Exit Sign)	Hadara Bar-Nadav	2018
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way	Martín Espada	2018
No Longer Ode	Urayoán Noel	2018
Love in the Ruins	Jim Moore	2018
The Things That Count	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1919
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.	Patricia Smith	2018
Mercy, Mercy, Me	John Murillo	2018
Television Prevents Me From Seeing the World as It Really Is	Carmen Giménez	2018
A Gate	Donna Masini	2018

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