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
[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm]	Lue Hughes	2022
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel	Catherine Pierce	2020
Dawn	Elsa Gidlow	1923
The Grey Thread	Elsa Gidlow	1923
At the Lindens Shiver in Autumn Dreams	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Dear Aleph,	Solmaz Sharif	2022
Melancholia	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Night of Love	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Social Note	Dorothy Parker	1926
Sick Room	Langston Hughes	1926
Acedia Sestina	Rohan Chhetri	2022
Meditation in the Open-Air Garage	Carol Moldaw	2021
Appalling Heart	Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven	1920
On an Island (New York City)	Joseph O. Legaspi	2021
Offering	Donika Kelly	2021
Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)	Ruth Muskrat Bronson	1922
A Song on the Water	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	2021
Afroinsularity	Conceição Lima	2021
UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021. / DOUBLE SONNET after A.J., C.S.D., C.G., J.B., D.R., P.C., M.B., K.G., K.W., M.E., K.B., E.G., M.D. & R.S.	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2021
Sea Slant	Carl Sandburg	1922

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