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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
Starlight William Meredith 1997
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
Haiku Ambulance Richard Brautigan 1989
The Specific Ocean Jenny Browne 2026
Proof Cornelius Eady 2026
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
Orange Noel Quiñones 2025
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
Imagination William Rose Benét 1914
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
Love in a Time of Covid-19 Craig Santos Perez 2022
Changing Is Not Vanishing Carlos Montezuma 1916
The Owl Edward Thomas
Tomorrow Is a Place Sanna Wani 2021
[I come weary,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Why I Love Thee? Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017

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