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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
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
Diving into the Wreck Adrienne Rich 1973
To the Sea Anis Mojgani 2023
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman 1891
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus William Carlos Williams 1962
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
Hangman Poem: One Player Puzzle Anacaona Rocio Milagro 2025
Caliban Theory Malcolm Friend 2025
alameda point David Maduli 2025
What’s Left Jan Schreiber 2013
Ghazal: Sea Moira Egan 2025
Sea Love Charlotte Mew 1921
Expectancy William Moore 1923
Return to Sea Langston Hughes 1927
January Aldrin Regina Valdez 2025
Fantasy Tennessee Reed 2024
Meetings Elizabeth Woody 2024

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