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
Gunshot	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
Kid, this is Iowa,	Jeffrey Bean	2018
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me (Sonnet 132)	William Shakespeare	1904
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120)	William Shakespeare	1904
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
The Right to Grief	Carl Sandburg
Taking Out the Trash	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
Bitch Instinct	Analicia Sotelo	2018
Burn	Janice N. Harrington	2018
Beginnings	Mahtem Shiferraw	2018
Rituals, Yours—and Mine	Kimberly Blaeser	2018
Opening the Hands between Here and Here	Jane Hirshfield	2011
In the Beginning God Said Light	Mary Szybist	2018
Friendship	Maxwell Bodenheim
Song of a Second April	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
The Battle Autumn of 1862	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
Villanelle with Violin	Marilyn Krysl	2017
Blonde Bombshell	Lynn Emanuel	2016
Pomegranate Means Grenade	Jamaal May	2016

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