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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
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] Frank O’Hara 1964
Sick Shel Silverstein 2003
Chansons Innocentes II E. E. Cummings 2023
In a Disused Graveyard Robert Frost 2023
Humility Mark Gibbons 2021
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
Poem Without Love Tarfia Faizullah 2023
[Title of Poem] Bob Holman 2013
The Author’s Picture Thomas Blacklock 1754
A Sick-Room Idyll William Gay 1911
Bang-Bang Tango Kenward Elmslie 1975
Bio Kenward Elmslie 1975
Sappho for Everybody Maxe Crandall 2023
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, LVI Al-Ma‘arri 1920
Prayer of the Shy Forest Jennifer L. Knox 2023
Continental Breakfast Nkosi Nkululeko 2023
Puck Goes to Court Fenton Johnson 1927
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Canadian Born Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
[Whenever I Make a New Poem,] Lew Welch 2012

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