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
Monologue of a Mother	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits	Rachel Zucker	2017
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
To My Mother	Lucretia Maria Davidson	1841
My Mama moved among the days	Lucille Clifton	2017
Return	Dorianne Laux	2017
I Ask My Mother to Sing	Li-Young Lee	2017
Holding On	Brenda Hillman	2017
Sitting at Night on the Front Porch	Charles Wright	2017
The Blue Dress	Saeed Jones	2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born	Nicole Sealey	2017
Apologue (1)	Maggie Smith	2017
Where Honey Comes From	Maggie Smith	2017
At the Metropolitan Museum	Matthew Siegel	2017
The Time Machine	Laura Kasischke	2017
His Speed and Strength	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath	Natasha Trethewey	2016
The Laughing Child	W. S. Merwin	2016
conflict with a god	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2016
gathering words	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2016

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