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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
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
This Morning Charles Simic 1994
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Days of Me Stuart Dischell 2003
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Duplex for the Sick & Tired Kay Ulanday Barrett 2024
This Too Shall Pass Kim Addonizio 2024
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
Beeches David St. John 2021
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
When Fannie Lou Hamer Said Mahogany L. Browne 2020

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