Category Archives: Poems

AFTER THE THRILL IS GONE

The Eagles Same dances in the same old shoes Some habits that you just can’t [...]

For You O Democracy

By Walt Whitman Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most [...]

Ars Poetica

By Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb [...]

Furry Bear

A. Milne If I were a bear, And a big bear too, I shouldn’t much [...]

Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors

What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop [...]

Evening

Dorianne Laux Moonlight pours down without mercy, no matter how many have perished beneath the [...]

Risk

By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in [...]

Ode to the West Wind

By Percy Bysshe Shelley I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, [...]

A Psalm of Life

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist [...]

The Weight of a Word

by Kate Slaughter McKinney Have you ever thought of the weight of a word That [...]