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
I Could Be a Whale Shark	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954
Day of the Refugios	Alberto Ríos	1994
My Mother, My Mother	Lue Hughes	2020
Erasers	Meghan O’Rourke	2026
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
To My Mother	Christina Rossetti	1842
The Rookie	January Gill O’Neil	2016
Only as the Day Is Long	Dorianne Laux	2015
Devotion	Tracy K. Smith	2026
This Morning	Luci Tapahonso	2020
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back”	Karla Cordero	2025
Pledge Allegiance	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2020
Red Delicious	Jerome Ellison Murphy	2022
Turtle Soup	Marilyn Chin	1994
Sitting at Night on the Front Porch	Charles Wright	2017
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?)	Evie Shockley	2020
The Maze	Mary-Kim Arnold	2021
My Mother Would Be a Falconress	Robert Duncan	1968
The Laughing Child	W. S. Merwin	2016

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