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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
To My Brother Vera Brittain 2018
Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil] Sonia Sanchez 2018
Black Swan Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2018
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
Brooding Grief D. H. Lawrence 2017
The River Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams 1917
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 1935
5 & 7 & 5 Anselm Hollo 2001
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
Daughters, 1900 Marilyn Nelson 1990
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Robert Lowell 1976
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
There are inanimate things out there loving each other francine j. harris 2025
Ghosts Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917

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