Category Archives: Poems
Variations On The Word Love
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for [...]
The Secret of the Machines
By Rudyard Kipling (MODERN MACHINERY) We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We [...]
Kindness To Animals
Poet: Unknown They have no voice to ask us For the pity which they need [...]
Advice to a Prophet
Richard Wilbur – 1921-2017 When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of [...]
Stones
by David Wagoner I bring them from the mountains, from the sea, from the edge [...]
The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop – 1911-1979 I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat [...]
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Rainer Maria Rilke Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the [...]
On Pain
Kahlil Gibran – 1883-1931 And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And [...]
Turning
(In this very short poem, the poet, Victoria Chang, demonstrates that words matter by using [...]
Not Writing – Jane Kenyon Poem about Writer’s Block
A wasp rises to its papery nest under the eaves where it daubs at the [...]