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
Love Song	Elsa Gidlow	1923
At the Lindens Shiver in Autumn Dreams	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Dusk Song	William H. A. Moore	1922
By Your Hand	Haʻåni Lucia Falo San Nicolas	2022
Reflections	Ameen Rihani	1921
Discovered	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Somebody’s Song	Dorothy Parker	1926
The Spellin' Bee	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
To Midnight Nan at Leroy's	Langston Hughes	1926
Meditation in the Open-Air Garage	Carol Moldaw	2021
Appalling Heart	Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven	1920
A Poem	Jos Charles	2021
One Summer	Ann-Margaret Lim	2021
From “Passage”	Shara McCallum	2021
Afroinsularity	Conceição Lima	2021
From “In the After”	Tonya M. Foster	2021
Life As We Know it	Edwin Williamson	2021
UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021. / DOUBLE SONNET after A.J., C.S.D., C.G., J.B., D.R., P.C., M.B., K.G., K.W., M.E., K.B., E.G., M.D. & R.S.	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2021
Born. Living. Will. Die.	Camonghne Felix	2021
Reflections in a Pool of Hair	francine j. harris	2020

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