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
The Parakeets	Alberto Blanco	1995
Tear It Down	Jack Gilbert	2001
Ballad of the Goodly Fere	Ezra Pound	1956
Song of Myself, 20	Walt Whitman	1891
What Seems Like Joy	Kaveh Akbar	2017
To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse	Burlee Vang	2016
A Litany in Time of Plague	Thomas Nashe	1600
When Mama died, I lost my air	DéLana R. A. Dameron	2025
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Hum	Ann Lauterbach	2005
Season of Grief	Khadijah Queen	2023
a brief meditation on breath	Yesenia Montilla	2020
On Self-Knowledge	Kahlil Gibran	1923
9th and 2nd	Joy Ladin	2018
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.	Donika Kelly	2017
Emergency Haying	Hayden Carruth	2006
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball	Christopher Merrill	2001
Loneliness	Fanny Howe	2015
A Song on the End of the World	Czesław Miłosz	1944

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