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 [...]