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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 Lion’s Mouth Randall Mann 2013
Kontur Igor Gulin 2024
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
Lacrimosa Traci Brimhall 2024
Love Poem Starting and Ending with Couplets Borrowed From the First Book on Electric Lighting Jean Prokott 2022
After Some Years Robert Hillyer 1923
The Good Willis Barnstone 2015
Daybreak with Jean-Louis Kérouac Willis Barnstone 2015
Room on the Roof of the Spanish Refugee Children’s Orphanage, 1946 Willis Barnstone 2015
Why I’m Not a Carpenter Tony Barnstone 2014
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home) Patrick Rosal 2024
Epithalamium Anthony Walton 2019
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Love Poem Attempt 3/? Taylor Byas 2023
Crossing the Line E. Ethelbert Miller 2022
Jellyfish Olympics Cristina M. R. Norcross 2021
When We’re in Bed and You Take Out Your Mouth Guard, I Know It’s On Melissa Crowe 2020
We Were Women, We Were Already Receding Billie R. Tadros 2020
The Marriage We Carried in Our Pockets Doug Ramspeck 2018
Sonku [what i want] Sonia Sanchez 2018

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