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
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Oklahoma City: The Aftermath	Ira Sadoff	1995
Door in the Mountain (audio only)	Jean Valentine	2009
[Toward the empty earth] (audio only)	Osip Mandelstam	2009
In Despair (audio only)	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Living by the Red River (audio only)	James Wright	1977
Song for the Clatter-Bones	F. R. Higgins	1935
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui)	Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna	1913
The Lady That Loved a Swine	Anonymous	1900
Caesarion	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Adam's Curse	W. B. Yeats	1903
Roanoke and Wampumpeag	Susan Wheeler	2005
The Green Stamp Book	Susan Wheeler	2005
Rhyme of My Inheritance (audio only)	Joan Larkin	2009
Susan's Photograph (audio only)	Jean Valentine	2009
Los Dos Rancheros (audio only)	Charlie Smith	2009
Real Time (audio only)	Charlie Smith	2009
[Time (Outside the Quincunx)] (audio only)	Jeffrey Yang	2009
Triggerfish (audio only)	Jeffrey Yang	2009
Parrotfish (audio only)	Jeffrey Yang	2009

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