Category Archives: Poems
How to eat a Poem
Eve Merriam Don’t be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick [...]
“I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”
Sylvia Plath I thought that I could not be hurt; I thought that I must [...]
Risk
By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in [...]
The Power Of Words
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in [...]
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
By Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul [...]
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not [...]
Introduction to Poetry
BY BILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to [...]
The Hollow Men
By T. S. Eliot We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning [...]
A Litany for Survival
By Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the [...]
A Light exists in Spring
By Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any [...]