Category Archives: Poems

Introduction to Poetry

BY BILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to [...]

The Hollow Men

By T. S. Eliot  We are the hollow men  We are the stuffed men  Leaning [...]

A Litany for Survival

By Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the [...]

A Light exists in Spring

By Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any [...]

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In [...]

The Summer Day

By Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? [...]

EQUALITY

By Maya Angelou You declare you see me dimly Through a glass which will not [...]

In Time’s Swing

by Lucy Larcom Father Time, your footsteps go Lightly as the falling snow. In your [...]

Wondering Who You Are

Robert Rorabeck Strange goddesses walk Floridian parks at midnight. They talk to themselves In the [...]

TREES

By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a [...]