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 [...]