Category Archives: Poems

On the Pulse of Morning

Maya Angelou A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked [...]

Casey at the Bat

Ernest Lawrence Thayer 1863–1940 The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The [...]

Trees

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

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 [...]