Category Archives: Poems

On Pain

Kahlil Gibran – 1883-1931 And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.      And [...]

Turning

(In this very short poem, the poet, Victoria Chang, demonstrates that words matter by using [...]

Not Writing – Jane Kenyon Poem about Writer’s Block

A wasp rises to its papery nest under the eaves where it daubs at the [...]

The Starry Night

Inspired by Van Gogh’s painting of the same name, Anne Sexton uses the imagery of [...]

England in 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of [...]

THE THOUGHT FOX

TED HUGHES I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s [...]

If I Had To Live My Life Again

Linda Pastan If I had to live my life again, I would work only in [...]

BLIZZARD

Snow falls: years of anger following hours that float idly down — the blizzard drifts [...]

FOODBANK

Nayma Chamchoun Nayma is a British Moroccan, self-taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced [...]

an angel and her embroidery

My grandma always sang me to sleep Riya Jaiswal     there lived an angel [...]

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