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
Diary from an AIDS Ward, 1984	Magdalena Gómez	2017
One Year Later	Lucille Clifton	1996
A Song of Hope	Charles Bertram Johnson	1921
Sonnets from the Cherokee (III)	Ruth Muskrat Bronson	1922
Polycystic Study of Intimacy	Aricka Foreman	2020
Like, Comma, Like	Kay Gabriel	2020
November	Lynna Odel	2020
Spring Thunder	Mark Van Doren	1924
When I Am Asked	Lisel Mueller	1996
This Bridge Across	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century	Herman Melville	2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
Jacob and Esau	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget	Anis Mojgani	2019
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: (Sonnet 153)	William Shakespeare	1904
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said (Sonnet 56)	William Shakespeare	1904
Impression du Voyage	Oscar Wilde	2018
Taking Out the Trash	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
now i’m bologna	José Olivarez	2018

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