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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
Song of Myself, 12 Walt Whitman 1891
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
Day Job and Night Job Andrew Hudgins 2003
Senlin: A Biography (Part I, Section II) Conrad Aiken 1918
From “. . . Again” Mark Nowak 2023
Vintage Vanity Terrance Hayes 2025
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
Red Cross Work Amelia Josephine Burr 2018
Loving Working Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
Cream City / Doodooshabo’enaande Oodena Margaret Noodin 2015
Work Sally Bliumis-Dunn 2015
Sky Burial Ron Koertge 2014
Resistors Brandon Som 2022
Moving Men John Warner Smith 2016
Cannery Town in August Lorna Dee Cervantes 1981
After Striving Corrie Lynn White 2023
From “The Land” [Shepherds and stars are quiet with the hills] Vita Sackville-West 1926
Maid Poem #7: HR Jan-Henry Gray 2016
These Hands, These Roots John Olivares Espinoza 2017
Report on the Most Recent Survey of Morale Carrie Shipers 2017

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