“The Green Rose by Stewart Stafford Through fractured eyes, I see the rose I once plucked, In another man's hands. And mistakes… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I wrought me a lyric of fire and fear, And called on the world to heed — Till strong men blenched at… — Kenneth Rand Copy Share Image
I'm only me.That's all I can be. No more,no less,don't second guess.I live, I laugh,I cry.I've wished sometimes that I could die.… — Wans Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Poem against War Bonfires burn brightly ”I see what you don’t see” Deathly pale rattles the sky. The children have grown old;… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your… — Tanzy Sayadi Copy Share Image
“Sing a song of suspense in which the players die. Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie. When the pie… — Jessica McHugh Copy Share Image
“THE MOON was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I love you in my very own way. Like a stone loves the mosses around it Like a sea loves the pebbles… — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I… — Gerard Nolst Trenité Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“ HOME no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce churro. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept repeating… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Morning Poem" I've got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death in… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few that touch the light “Will… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick… — wilfred owen Copy Share Image
“The wind you hear is the birth of memory when the moment hatches in time’s womb there will be no art talk.… — Keropatse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
“The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford Fading embers of the final Christmas test, No more the frantic angst of dawn, Now it is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Scene: Darkness. Suddenly, a single spotlight illuminates Apollo standing on the front porch of the Big House. The house is a bold… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Objects and Objectives To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our… — Samantha King Copy Share Image
“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA If you hold this Dazzling emerald Up to the sky, It will shine a billion Beautiful miracles… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The world's an incessant transformation, and to meditate is awareness, with no clinging to, no working on, the mind. It is a… — Robert Gray Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the antidote. He who creates chaos,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
![“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I’ve been writing for days, drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere, and I…” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/adrienne-rich-803_long-way_poem-ii-i-wake-up-in-your-bed-i-know-i-h_1124584.png)
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