I’m A Person Too

Dawn Mazzola Here I lie in bed again, Awaiting my next meal. A worker barges in my room, As if [...]

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

By Mary Elizabeth Frye Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. [...]

Still I Rise

By Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in [...]

The New Colossus

By Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here [...]

Unable are the Loved to die

By Emily Dickinson Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity – Unable they [...]

Why Are Your Poems So Dark?

By Linda Pastan Isn’t the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn’t the white page seem unfinished without [...]

A Winter Bluejay

Sara Teasdale Crisply the bright snow whispered, Crunching beneath our feet; Behind us as we walked along the parkway, Our [...]

Winter Birds

By Andrew Jackson Downing Fair is the sky, for the cloud-rack is lifted- Bright will the day be, though dark [...]