Category Archives: Poems

Democracy

By Langston Hughes Democracy will not come Today, this year   Nor ever Through compromise [...]

Ars Poetica

By Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb [...]

I Dream A World

Langston Hughes I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love [...]

First Footfall

By Chanukya The hush is endless, a silence older than oceans, yet it bends, trembling, [...]

In this short Life

by Emily Dickinson In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much—how little—is [...]

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not [...]

The Yankees

by Robert Lord Keyes The Yankees are in spring training down in Florida. I can [...]

Words

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

Human Family

By Maya Angelou I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us [...]

“Blame”

By Mark Kelley I sure don’t blame the hills Nor do I blame the trees [...]