Category Archives: Poems
The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop – 1911-1979 I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat [...]
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Rainer Maria Rilke Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the [...]
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 [...]