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
Twilight	Marigloria Palma, Carina del Valle Schorske	2020
Vest	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
The Bowl	Jane Hirshfield	2020
As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Song of the Moon	Priscilla Jane Thompson	1907
I wanted to be surprised.	Jane Hirshfield	2020
On the Fifth Day	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Ledger	Jane Hirshfield	2020
A Moment Alone	A. Van Jordan	2020
Portland Parish/ The Blue Mountains	C. S. Giscombe	2020
Labyrinth	Kenyatta Rogers	2020
Other Women’s Children	Amaud Jamaul Johnson	2020
The Want of You	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
The Flower at My Window	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
When Fannie Lou Hamer Said	Mahogany L. Browne	2020
Men Keep on Dying	Michael McGriff	2020
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me	Monica Sok	2020
The Pedestrian	Tommye Blount	2020
Einstein’s Mother	Tracy K. Smith	2020

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