Category Archives: Poems
The Weight of a Word
by Kate Slaughter McKinney Have you ever thought of the weight of a word That [...]
TO THE THAWING WIND
By Robert Frost “Come with rain, O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; [...]
The Old Horse In The City
By Vachel Lindsay The moon’s a peck of corn. It lies Heaped up for me [...]
The Power Of Words
Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, [...]
Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous [...]
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863 – 1940) The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that [...]
Vocabulary
– Jason Schneiderman I used to love words, but not looking them up. Now I [...]
The Rape of Persephone
(Inspired by the sculpture of “The Rape of Persephone” by Bernini, in the Villa Borghese, [...]
A Legend of Truth
Rudyard Kipling Once on a time, the ancient legends tell, Truth, rising from the bottom [...]
Eating Poetry
by Mark Strand Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness [...]