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
I Too Was Loved by Daphne	Judith Baumel	2010
Adam Lay Ibounden	Anonymous	1400
Lament for the Makaris	William Dunbar	1460
From a Woman of a Distant Land	Tada Chimako	2010
Vague Cadence	Geoffrey G. O'Brien	2011
Things Come On: An Amneoir [my mother lives under the ground]	Joseph Harrington	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
Spring and All, XIV	William Carlos Williams	1962
Fairbanks Under the Solstice	John Haines	1993
September Elegies	Randall Mann	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing]	Bhanu Kapil	2008
Death, Is All	Ana Božičević	2010
Body Mostly Flown	Terese Svoboda	2010
RR Lyrae: Matter	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2009
Winter in Gold River	Catie Rosemurgy	2010
Father Lynch Returns from the Dead	Jean Valentine	2004
Release	Peter Makuck	2010
About Death and Other Things	Aleksandar Ristovic	2010
please advise stop [I might travel his death a creaking and swaying beneath me stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008

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