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Poem of the DayBy Edward ThomasOften I had gone this way before:But now it seemed I never could beAnd never had been anywhere else;'Twas home; one nationalityWe had, I and the birds that sang,One memory.They welcomed me. I had come...
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poemBy Weldon KeesLooking into my daughter’s eyes I readBeneath the innocence of morning fleshConcealed, hintings of death she does not heed.Coldest of winds have blown this hair, and meshOf seaweed snarled these miniatures of hands;The night’s slow poison, tolerant and bland,Has moved...
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poemBy James SchuylerThe wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool dampAnd lifts its head with twigs and small dead blades of grassPressed into it as you might at the beach rise up and brush awayThe sand. The day...
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poemBy Conor O'CallaghanIt needn’t be tinder, this juncture of the year,a cigarette second guessed from car to brush.The woods’ parchment is givento cracking asunder the first puff of wind.Yesterday a big sycamore came across Firstand Hawthorne and is there yet.The...
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Feast on this smorgasbord of poems about eating and cooking, exploring our relationships with food.
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Poem SamplerBy The Editors
Poems to celebrate and share with your high school or college graduate.
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From the Current Issue of Poetry Magazine
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poemBy John ShoptawUnlike the monarch, thoughthe asteroid also slippedquietly from its colonyon its annular migrationbetween Jupiter and Mars,enticed maybe byour planetary pollenas the monarch by my neighbor’sslender-leaved milkweed.Unlike it even whenthe fragrant Cretaceousatmosphere meteorizedthe airborne rock,flaring it into what mighthave looked to...
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poemBy Adrienne SuWhat would the lovely Yang Guifei,concubine to the emperor,a Helen of China, have madeof our gleaming grocery stores,always awash in berries, melons,tangerines? Her passion for lychees,rushed north by a chain of horsemen,laid waste to a dynasty.She must have understood,at least...
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Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Katherine Robinson
The poet shows how reality and imagination can become one.
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Poem GuideBy Troy Jollimore
Witness the making of a new American poetics.
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