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 [...]