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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
[’Twas the new moon!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
I Am Like a Leaf Yone Noguchi 1921
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019
The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Brenda Hillman 2018
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
Vivien’s Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2017
Dear Exile, Mai Der Vang 2017
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë Charlotte Brontë 2016
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
Darling Coffee Meena Alexander 2015
Next Time Ask More Questions Naomi Shihab Nye 2015
A Bird Song Christina Rossetti 1873
A Short History of the Apple Dorianne Laux 2011
The Dead Mina Loy 1920
To Night Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
Hallow-E'en, 1914 Winifred M. Letts 1916
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
The Thread of Life Christina Rossetti 1881
5 & 7 & 5 Anselm Hollo 2001
Goodbye Geoffrey Brock 2025

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