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
Wall Street at Night	Lola Ridge	1920
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
Rime Riche	Monica Ferrell	2010
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
The Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
9773 Comanche Ave.	David Trinidad	2010
Lying My Head Off	Cate Marvin	2007
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
Untitled [To see this evil from its core]	Philip Lamantia	2008
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94)	William Shakespeare	1609
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
Dishwater	Ted Kooser	2004
Moon Gathering	Eleanor Wilner	2004
Go Greyhound	Bob Hicok	2004
In the Next Galaxy	Ruth Stone	2002
Love Poem	Gregory Orr	2002

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