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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 moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings. Donika Kelly 2017
Thanksgiving Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2017
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Hope is the thing with feathers (254) Emily Dickinson 1890
Good Bones Maggie Smith 2016
Dead Stars Ada Limón 2018
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney 2016
Enigma Leonora Speyer 1921
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
Greensickness Laurel Chen 2022
In This Place (An American Lyric) Amanda Gorman 2018
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
Morning Star C. D. Wright 2025
This Light Marc Harshman 2025
The Hat B. H. Fairchild 2023
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
Magnitude and Bond Cortney Lamar Charleston 2025
Otway Phoebe Cary 1892
Last Sky World Burn Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2025
what can I know what should I do what may I hope Benjamin Krusling 2025

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