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
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
The Trouble Ball [excerpt]	Martín Espada	2011
Sutra	Marilyn Krysl	2011
Renewal [Excerpt]	Chris Abani	2010
Shaving Your Father's Face	Michael Dickman	2010
The Last 4 Things [That hard thread]	Kate Greenstreet	2009
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
My Father	Scott Hightower	2010
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas	Prageeta Sharma	2010
please advise stop [I might travel his death a creaking and swaying beneath me stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father’s arm stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Seurat	Ira Sadoff	1975
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Father	Edgar Guest	1919
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
A Boy and His Dad	Edgar Guest	1921
Lion and Gin	Dennis Hinrichsen	2009

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