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
From “The Southland’s Charms and Freedom’s Magnitude” (35)	Albery Allson Whitman	1901
South Street	Lewis Grandison Alexander	1927
Before Two Thresholds	Arthur Fauset	1927
El Hajj Malik Shabazz	Mari Evans	2007
Carolyn Rodgers	Mari Evans	2007
The Flag Is Bleeding, 2019	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2020
Indeterminacy	Charif Shanahan	2023
No Room to Form	John S. Blake	2023
Auf Wiedersehen	Donald Jeffrey Hayes	1927
Inscription	Donald Jeffrey Hayes	1927
The Black Madonna	Albert Rice	1927
Neoteric Kama No Sutra	Frank X Walker	2023
Self-Care	Faylita Hicks	2023
her aint even at de funeral	avery r. young	2023
St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said	Lynne Thompson	2023
Paradox	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
Grass Fingers	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
To an Icicle	Blanche Taylor Dickinson	1927
That Hill	Blanche Taylor Dickinson	1927
Revelation	Blanche Taylor Dickinson	1927

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