Category Archives: Poems

WHEN DEATH COMES

By Mary Oliver When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes [...]

Thanksgiving

Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the [...]

Alone

By Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where [...]

“Risk”

by Anaïs Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in [...]

September 1, 1939

H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid [...]

The Bloody Sire

By Robinson Jeffers It is not bad.  Let them play. Let the guns bark and [...]

Words Lyrics

Sylvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off [...]

No Man is an Island

By John Donne No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a [...]

The Truth

-Barrie Wade Sticks and stones may break my bones But words can also hurt me. [...]

Allowables

Nikki Giovanni I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black [...]