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
O	Claire Wahmanholm	2020
Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild	J. P. Grasser	2020
December Morning in the Desert	Alberto Ríos	2019
OBIT [The Clock]	Victoria Chang	2018
The Unreturning	Wilfred Owen	1933
Haiku [i count the morning]	Sonia Sanchez	2018
The Average Mother	Camille T. Dungy	2018
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is	Patrick Rosal	2018
Ode to My Hearing Aids	Camisha L. Jones	2018
XXXV [A man saw a ball of gold in the sky]	Stephen Crane	2017
Mistake	Heather Christle	2017
[London, my beautiful]	F. S. Flint	2017
Recollections of My Christmas Tree	Mary Ruefle	2016
gathering words	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2016
The Dreams of the Dreamer	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1918
United	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
My Proteins	Jane Hirshfield	2015
El Beso	Angelina Weld Grimké	1909

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