Reply to the Question: “How can You Become a Poet?”
by Eve Merriam take the leaf of a tree trace its exact shape the outside edges and inner lines memorize [...]
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most [...]
The Smile
Ted Hughes Began under the groan of the oldest forest It ran through the clouds, a third light And it [...]
“AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS”
By Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do [...]
Sonnet – To Time
by Sylvia Plath Today we move in jade and cease with garnet amid the clicking jeweled clocks that mark our [...]
To a Blank Sheet of Paper
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leaf To me looks more than deadly pale, Unknowing what may stain [...]
To Her Father with Some Verses
Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) Most truly honored, and as truly dear, If worth in me or ought I do [...]
Tell All The Truth
Emily Dickinson Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our inform delight [...]