Category Archives: Poems

DREAMS

Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967) Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is [...]

A VISION

Simon Armitage The future was a beautiful place, once. Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town on [...]

September Song

When I was a young man courting the girls I played me a waiting game [...]

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 [...]