Category Archives: Poems

“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 [...]

Thanksgiving

Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the [...]

Alone

By Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where [...]

“Risk”

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