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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
Insomniac Tankas Antoinette Brim-Bell 2025
Wedding Day / Boda Octavio Quintanilla 2025
Leaving Childhood Behind Mosab Abu Toha 2022
Season of Grief Khadijah Queen 2023
The Return Arna Bontemps 1927
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
Of a Certain Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
I Have Folded My Sorrows Bob Kaufman 1965
Not Once Sharon Olds 2022
Ways to Disappear Camille Rankine 2021
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925
Flower Song / Flor y Canto / In Xochitl In Cuicatl Francisco X. Alarcón 1992
The Leopard Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
Wild Horses Paisley Rekdal 2020
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Lynn Melnick 2019
Song of Myself, 9 Walt Whitman 1891
Great Art Tim Dlugos 2011
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art (Sonnet 131) William Shakespeare 1904
But wherefore do not you a mightier way (Sonnet 16) William Shakespeare 1904

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