Category Archives: Poems
Apostrophe To Man
Edna St. Vincent Millay (On reflecting that the world is ready to go to war [...]
The 19th Amendment & My Mama
Mahogany L. Browne I always took it for granted, the right to vote She said [...]
Drop a Pebble in the Water
by James W. Foley (1874-1939) Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and [...]
“Autumn”
by Emily Dickinson The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; [...]
BREVITY
Patricia L. Cisco Life’s brevity, so bittersweet, depends upon just one heartbeat. Brief as dusk [...]
INVICTUS
By William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit [...]
From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from [...]
The Love Poem
– Carol Ann Duffy Till love exhausts itself, longs for the sleep of words – [...]
Attack
By Siegfried Sassoon At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple [...]
WHEN DEATH COMES
By Mary Oliver When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes [...]