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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
Deception Story Solmaz Sharif 2017
Earth Day on the Bay Gary Soto 2016
Dear Melissa: [a curve billed thrasher] TC Tolbert 2016
No Hands Carol Muske-Dukes 2016
Garden Abstract Hart Crane 2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126) William Shakespeare 2016
Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnet 33) William Shakespeare 2016
Ode to Love Jennifer Militello 2015
In the Absence of Sparrows Daniel Johnson 2014
Another Poem on My Daughter’s Birthday Craig Morgan Teicher 2014
Get Up, Please David Kirby 2013
Aunt Helen T. S. Eliot 1915
here rests Lucille Clifton 1991
Here Ed Roberson 2011
Earth Took of Earth Anonymous 1000
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) Marvin Bell 2009
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918

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