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There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.

When Silence is Heard

March 30, 2026

Spring

March 26, 2026

The Spring

March 26, 2026

At the Equinox

March 25, 2026

Our Garden of Forever

March 23, 2026

Ode on Adversity

March 17, 2026

Hymn To Adversity

March 17, 2026

Ambition Over Adversity

March 17, 2026

Overcome Adversity by Damien Smith

March 17, 2026

Your Best by Barbara Vance

March 9, 2026

February by Margaret Atwood

February 2, 2026

February by Ralph Hodgson

February 2, 2026

The Language

January 21, 2026

Colors passing through us

January 20, 2026

If only life was a colouring book

January 20, 2026

Colouring Book

January 20, 2026

Colouring Under The Light

January 20, 2026

The Human Seasons

January 19, 2026

Poetry and Spoken Word: Where Words Come Alive

Poetry and Spoken Word: Where Words Come Alive

January 15, 2026

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

January 14, 2026

Laziness

January 14, 2026

Twenty First Night Monday

January 14, 2026

In the Green Mountains

January 9, 2026

The Brook

January 9, 2026

The Woodpecker

January 9, 2026

Sea Fever

January 9, 2026

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

January 9, 2026

Im Not Really 60

January 5, 2026

The Ballad Of Rum

January 5, 2026

Ode Written On The First Of January

January 1, 2026

31st December

December 31, 2025

December 31st by Marina

December 31, 2025

December 31st

December 31, 2025

Mother To Son

December 30, 2025

When Tomorrow Starts Without Me

December 29, 2025

Psalm 150 By Jericho Brown

December 29, 2025

On Saturday The Sandman Sets A Silver-Plate

December 27, 2025

How To Acquire Peace

December 27, 2025

An Interview

December 26, 2025

December by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

December 26, 2025

December by Rebecca Hey

December 26, 2025

December Days

December 26, 2025

Fragment 3 Come, come thou bleak December wind

December 26, 2025

Holy Sonnet VIII If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnet VII At the round earth’s imagind corners

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnet V I am a Little World made Cunningly

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnet IV Oh my black soul

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnet II As Due By Many Titles I Resign

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnet VI This is my plays last scene

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnets Thou hast made me and shall thy work decay

December 15, 2025

Holy Sonnets Batter my heart three persond God

December 15, 2025

Paradise Lost

December 14, 2025

M-a sunat aseară mama

December 14, 2025

The Rose Family

December 12, 2025

A Brook In The City

December 12, 2025

A Time To Talk

December 12, 2025

A Prayer In Spring

December 12, 2025

A Soldier

December 12, 2025

A Late Walk

December 12, 2025

Acquainted With The Night

December 12, 2025

A Question

December 12, 2025

Fire and Ice

December 12, 2025

The Road Not Taken

December 12, 2025

A Coffin is a Small Domain

December 11, 2025

Heaven Has Different Signs & Mdash; to me

December 11, 2025

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

December 11, 2025

Heaven is What I Cannot Reach

December 11, 2025

A Bird Came Down

December 11, 2025

A Book

December 11, 2025

Faith Is A Fine Invention

December 11, 2025

Why Do I Love You Sir?

December 11, 2025

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

December 11, 2025

When You Come

December 10, 2025

Remembrance

December 10, 2025

On The Pulse Of Morning

December 10, 2025

Million Man March

December 10, 2025

Insomniac

December 10, 2025

Human Family

December 10, 2025

Weekend Glory

December 10, 2025

Savior

December 10, 2025

Refusal

December 10, 2025

Momma Welfare Roll

December 10, 2025

A Conceit

December 10, 2025

The Lesson

December 10, 2025

Passing Time

December 10, 2025

Men

December 10, 2025

Woman Work

December 10, 2025

Touched by An Angel

December 10, 2025

Caged Bird

December 10, 2025

Still I Rise

December 10, 2025

O from what power hast thou this powerful might (Sonnet 150)

December 9, 2025

Canst thou O cruel say I love thee not (Sonnet 149)

December 9, 2025

Love is too young to know what conscience is (Sonnet 151)

December 9, 2025

O me what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148)

December 9, 2025

In loving thee thou knowst I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)

December 9, 2025

My Love is as a Fever Longing Still (Sonnet 147)

December 9, 2025

Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep (Sonnet 153)

December 9, 2025

Those lips that Loves own hand did make (Sonnet 145)

December 9, 2025

Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)

December 9, 2025

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154)

December 9, 2025

Death by Brandi Young

December 8, 2025

I Want To Die

December 8, 2025

A Poet’s Death Is His Life Iv

December 8, 2025

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

December 8, 2025

Time Moved Quickly by Micron Jan

December 8, 2025

When Great Trees Fall

December 8, 2025

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

December 8, 2025

A Child of Mine

December 8, 2025

Death is Nothing at All

December 8, 2025

Nothing Gold Can Stay

December 8, 2025

Walking In Snow

Walking In Snow

December 5, 2025

Wanderers

Wanderers

December 5, 2025

My Father and I in The Time of Water

My Father and I in The Time of Water

December 5, 2025

Photograph of You Walking on a Frozen Lake

Photograph of You Walking on a Frozen Lake

December 5, 2025

A Prayer for my Daughter

A Prayer for my Daughter

December 5, 2025

The Soldier

The Soldier

December 4, 2025

Four War Poems

Four War Poems

December 4, 2025

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

December 4, 2025

Two Poems From The War

Two Poems From The War

December 4, 2025

Dulce et Decorum Est

Dulce et Decorum Est

December 4, 2025

Be not Sad by James Joyce

Be not Sad by James Joyce

December 3, 2025

Dirge by William Shakespeare

Dirge by William Shakespeare

December 3, 2025

And Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream

And Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream

December 3, 2025

Clown in the Moon

Clown in the Moon

December 3, 2025

A Sad Child

A Sad Child

December 3, 2025

On December 21 by Amos Russel Wells

On December 21 by Amos Russel Wells

December 1, 2025

December By Drew Osmond

December By Drew Osmond

December 1, 2025

Bittersweet December by Christina

Bittersweet December by Christina

December 1, 2025

December by Joseph Herron

December by Joseph Herron

December 1, 2025

December by Harvey Carson Grumbine

December by Harvey Carson Grumbine

December 1, 2025

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

November 28, 2025

‘Kind Hearts are the Gardens’ 

‘Kind Hearts are the Gardens’ 

November 28, 2025

Kindness Matters

Kindness Matters

November 28, 2025

Kindness by Sylvia Plath

Kindness by Sylvia Plath

November 28, 2025

Kindness by Edgar Albert Guest

Kindness by Edgar Albert Guest

November 28, 2025

Greater Love by Wilfred Owen

Greater Love by Wilfred Owen

November 28, 2025

The Obit by Ethelbert Miller

The Obit by Ethelbert Miller

November 25, 2025

Love is More Thicker Than Forget

Love is More Thicker Than Forget

November 25, 2025

These Inward Trials

These Inward Trials

November 25, 2025

A Prayer for Victory over Temptation

A Prayer for Victory over Temptation

November 25, 2025

A Prayer For You

A Prayer For You

November 24, 2025

The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

November 24, 2025

5 Poems About Prayer

5 Poems About Prayer

November 24, 2025

The Year Outgrows The Spring

The Year Outgrows The Spring

November 21, 2025

Withered Leaves by Peter Burn

Withered Leaves by Peter Burn

November 21, 2025

The Circling Year by Ramona Graham

The Circling Year by Ramona Graham

November 21, 2025

In Time’s Swing by Lucy Larcom

In Time’s Swing by Lucy Larcom

November 21, 2025

The Seasons by E.F Hayward

The Seasons by E.F Hayward

November 21, 2025

The Mirage Machine by Lord Bechard

The Mirage Machine by Lord Bechard

November 20, 2025

What A Rose Can Say Poem by Margie Driver

What A Rose Can Say Poem by Margie Driver

November 19, 2025

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Poem by Pablo Neruda

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Poem by Pablo Neruda

November 19, 2025

Phenomenal Woman Poem by Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman Poem by Maya Angelou

November 19, 2025

New Year by Bei Dao

New Year by Bei Dao

November 19, 2025

Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes

Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes

November 18, 2025

Aubade by Philip Larkin

Aubade by Philip Larkin

November 18, 2025

Character of the Happy Warrior

Character of the Happy Warrior

November 18, 2025

An Exequy by Peter Porter

An Exequy by Peter Porter

November 18, 2025

Crusoe in England

Crusoe in England

November 18, 2025

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

November 17, 2025

The Brain — is wider than the Sky

The Brain — is wider than the Sky

November 17, 2025

Friday by Theresa Ann Moore

Friday by Theresa Ann Moore

November 14, 2025

Thank God it’s Friday

Thank God it’s Friday

November 14, 2025

Friday’s at yours by Shannon

Friday’s at yours by Shannon

November 14, 2025

Listening to Cicadas

Listening to Cicadas

November 11, 2025

A Bird Came Down the Walk

A Bird Came Down the Walk

November 11, 2025

A Minor Bird by Robert Frost

November 11, 2025

The Tyger by William Blake

The Tyger by William Blake

November 11, 2025

Autumn Crows by Kimiko Hahn

Autumn Crows by Kimiko Hahn

November 11, 2025

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

November 11, 2025

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

November 10, 2025

A Wish for Peace

A Wish for Peace

November 7, 2025

Friendship by Henry David Thoreau

November 6, 2025

A Friend by Gillian Jones

November 6, 2025

Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old

November 6, 2025

Alone by Maya Angelou

November 6, 2025

Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte

November 6, 2025

November by Charles L Cleaveland

November 4, 2025

A November Night by Sara Teasdale

November 3, 2025

November By Emily Dickinson

November 3, 2025

She Walks in Beauty

October 31, 2025

Reading Books By Vivian G. Gouled

October 30, 2025

The Reading Mother By Strickland Gillilan

October 30, 2025

Read to Me By Jane Yolen

October 30, 2025

Adventures with Books By Velda Blumhagen

October 30, 2025

I am Thankful for by Nancy J Carmody

October 29, 2025

Gratitude by Edgar Albert Guest

October 29, 2025

A Poem of Gratitude by Traveling Mitch

October 29, 2025

The Most Important Things In Life

October 29, 2025

Gratitude by Cornelius Eady

October 29, 2025

Peace by Matshona Dhliwayo

October 28, 2025

Peace Is Holy Sacred by Terence George Craddock

October 28, 2025

I Love Peace Mohammad Younus

October 28, 2025

Peace by Gerard Manley Hopkins

October 28, 2025

Making Peace by Denise Levertov

October 28, 2025

Peace by George Herbert

Peace by George Herbert

October 27, 2025

Let Peace Prevail In This World

Let Peace Prevail In This World

October 25, 2025

Rain by Edward Thomas

Rain by Edward Thomas

October 21, 2025

The Darkling Thrush

The Darkling Thrush

October 13, 2025

Autumn by John Keats Poem

Autumn by John Keats Poem

October 6, 2025

Be Thankful

Be Thankful

October 2, 2025

June’s Coming by John Burroughs

June’s Coming by John Burroughs

June 3, 2025

Cant by Edgar Albert Guest

Cant by Edgar Albert Guest

May 21, 2025

The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear

The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear

May 12, 2025

Absalom And Achitophel

Absalom And Achitophel

February 17, 2025

Defeat by Khalil Gibran

Defeat by Khalil Gibran

January 27, 2025

Good Books by Edgar Guest

Good Books by Edgar Guest

January 20, 2025

Year’s End by Richard Wilbur

Year’s End by Richard Wilbur

January 1, 2025

December by Thomas Parsons

December by Thomas Parsons

December 3, 2024

It is November by Elizabeth Shield

It is November by Elizabeth Shield

November 19, 2024

A Psalm of Life

A Psalm of Life

October 14, 2024

June’s Coming by John Burroughs

Before The Throne Of Beauty by Kahlil Gibran

October 9, 2024

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken

September 30, 2024

The Dark Ages by John Reade

The Dark Ages by John Reade

June 26, 2024

On Prayer – Kahlil Gibran

On Prayer – Kahlil Gibran

June 11, 2024

Psalms 105 – Oh Give Thanks

Psalms 105 – Oh Give Thanks

June 11, 2024

June’s Coming by John Burroughs

June’s Coming by John Burroughs

June 3, 2024

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