Category Archives: Poems

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 [...]

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 [...]