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
Madrigal for the newly pregnant	Alice Notley	2023
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, CXIX	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XIV	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
Edensong	Peter Cole	2022
New Year’s Chimes	Francis Thompson	1897
Wicaŋhpi Heciya Taŋhaŋ Uŋhipi	Gwen Westerman	2020
At The Corner of New Orleans and Frontier - At Disneyland	Matt Mason	2022
Song of the Exiles	Holly Karapetkova	2022
Why Adam Sinned	Alex Rogers	1922
The Fruits of Death	Ameen Rihani	1921
The End and the Beginning	Ameen Rihani	1921
in our chant of the creation of the world	leilani portillo	2022
My Bornoose	Ameen Rihani	1905
Columbian Ode	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Retrospection	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Burden, old story.	francine j. harris	2021
Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals	Carolina Ebeid	2021
Bread and Wine	Countee Cullen
Meditations at Tabexa Wakpa (Frog Creek)	M. L. Smoker	2009
The Book of the Missing, Murdered and Indigenous—Chapter 1	M. L. Smoker	2020

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