Category Archives: Poems

Freedom

by Ambrose Bierce Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every [...]

The Star Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key (1814) Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What [...]

The Power of Words

By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in [...]

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 [...]