Poems

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
Song for Baby-O, Unborn	Diane di Prima	1990
Dear Demeter—Dear Earth (where Hades is the non-custodial parent)	Heid E. Erdrich	2017
At The Dinner Table With God And My Father	b: william bearhart	2014
A Pile of Fish	Tomás Q. Morín	2020
A Prayer	Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.	1918
My dad buried two dogs in the backyard:	Barbara Fant	2020
My Mother, My Mother	Luther Hughes	2020
Little Brown Baby	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
Benediction	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Our Date	Maria Lisella	2013
The Story Nabakov Wrote about my Autistic Son	Rosemarie Dombrowski	2019
Because People Ask What My Daughter Will Think of My Poems When She’s Sixteen	Beth Ann Fennelly	2008
Flower	Susan Landgraf	2017
Pietà	Evelyn Scott	1920
A Wyandot Cradle Song	Bertrand N. O. Walker	1924
On Growth	Rae Armantrout	2020
You Rode a Loop	Rosa Alcalá	2020
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster	Deborah Paredez	2020
Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild	J.P. Grasser	2020
I Cannot Sing	Edward Nathaniel Harleston	1907

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1990