“I went out to the hazel wood because a fire was in my head cut and peeled a hazel wand and hooked… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me, If only your heart ever, craves for me or… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't have to be sunny It wouldn't have to be anything else then just that It would really simplify my walk… — Jackie Clark Copy Share Image
“Poem of Thanks Years later, long single, I want to turn to his departed back, and say, What gifts we had of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“ Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of… — Bob Hicok Copy Share Image
“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“She grew tired of shielding her body, For societal expectation and propriety, Double standards and sobriety, Ideologies of prudent cries, And boys… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“THE DANCE OF ANGELS Suzy Kassem He spins and spins and spins To remove all three layers of him And with devout… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE Oh Princess of the Sun. Daughter of nature. Love of the trees. Your eyes are with tears but love… — Victor Vote Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let Small answers be… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“We march through snow and we march through rain With naught to lose and naught to gain Sun and moon and sun… — Sarah Delena White Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Twilight Surprise” poem: “The sky burns down, A rim of coals glowing gold and red, Limned with orange again And kissed with… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“ Apology I didn't mean to say so much to you. I should have thought to let the evening end by looking… — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame,… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Dear Mariched Manansala, who doesn't seem to care.. This poem is for you, I hope you would dare.. I always dream of… — Arvie Reforsado Copy Share Image
“HUG DAY POEM: Wrap me in your hug.. make me feel happy! Hold me tight and close.. not like a pillow or… — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
“The Old Man at the Wheel Measured against the immeasurable universe, no word you have spoken brought light. Brought light to what,… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke remembrances of a carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be.… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
“Marcus’s appearance the day before had been discussed, dissected, analyzed, and—by Lady Sarah Pleinsworth, Honoria’s cousin and one of her closest friends… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“We begin to say something that cannot be said. When you see on the front page a woman in Iraq who's just… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“A YEARNING HEART My heart is hurting right now, I don't know what to do, Father say something to me, I don't… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The Law of the Jungle NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“We almost began a perfect conversation, F. said as he turned on the six o'clock news. He turned the radio very loud… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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