She Was a Phantom of DelightBY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She was a Phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely Apparition, sentTo be a moment’s ornament;Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair;But all things else about her drawnFrom May-time and the cheerful Dawn;A dancing Shape, an Image gay,To haunt, … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04302024
A cicada shell by Matsuo Basho a cicada shellit sang itselfutterly away Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04292024
Ode on the Spring BY THOMAS GRAY Lo! where the rosy-bosom’d Hours,Fair Venus’ train appear,Disclose the long-expecting flowers,And wake the purple year!The Attic warbler pours her throat,Responsive to the cuckoo’s note,The untaught harmony of spring:While whisp’ring pleasure as they fly,Cool zephyrs thro’ the clear blue skyTheir gather’d fragrance fling. Where’er the oak’s thick branches stretchA … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04282024
homage to my hips BY LUCILLE CLIFTON these hips are big hipsthey need space tomove around in.they don’t fit into littlepetty places. these hipsare free hips.they don’t like to be held back.these hips have never been enslaved,they go where they want to gothey do what they want to do.these hips are mighty hips.these hips are … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04272024
A Tear And A Smile by Khalil Gibran I would not exchange the sorrows of my heartFor the joys of the multitude.And I would not have the tears that sadness makesTo flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile. A tear to purify my … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04252024
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Well, son, I’ll tell you:Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.It’s had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.But all the timeI’se been a-climbin’ on,And reachin’ landin’s,And turnin’ corners,And sometimes goin’ in the darkWhere there ain’t been no light.So boy, don’t … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04232024
Introduction to Poetry BY BILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s roomand feel the walls for a light … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 04142024
Expect Nothing by Alice Walker Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need. Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul. … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 03092024
CLASSIC POETRY Blues In the nightin my half hournegro dreamsi hear voices knocking at the doori see walls dripping screams upand down the hallswon’t someone openthe door for me? won’t someone schedule my sleepand don’t ask no questions?noise.like when he took me to hishome away from home placeand i died the long sought afterdeath he’d … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 03012024
The Song of the Idiot by Rainer Marie Rilke Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01272024
Imitation Poet: Edgar Allan Poe A dark unfathomed tideOf interminable pride –A mystery, and a dream,Should my early life seem;I say that dream was fraughtWith a wild and waking thoughtOf beings that have been,Which my spirit hath not seen,Had I let them pass me by,With a dreaming eye!Let none of earth inheritThat vision of my … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01192024
Heroes Weep Before Leaving by CS Crockett We love stories that speak of adventure,Ones that tell us “You too could be a hero!You must set out from your homeAnd see all the wonder that lies before.”We hear the call, but many may weepUpon the news of our leaving. This makes it hard for us to … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01182024
Hope Is The Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all – And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –And sore must be the storm –That could abash the little BirdThat … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01052024
Changing The Past by Donna The past is the past for a reason.That is where it is supposed to stay,But some cannot let it go.In their heads it eats away Until all their focus becomesThe person they used to be,The mistakes they made in their life.Oh, if only they could see That you cannot change … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01042024
Renewed By The Morning Light by Patricia A Fleming I sit upon my front porch stoopBeneath the morning sun.Grateful for the moment spentAway from everyone. The air is fresh and slightly chilled,The sky is blue and clear.The silence that surrounds me nowIs music to my ears. I love the morning best of all,It’s my most … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01032024
Faith And Courage In Life by Angie M Flores In life there are people that will hurt us and cause us pain,but we must learn to forgive and forget and not hold grudges. In life there are mistakes we will make,but we must learn from our wrongs and grow from them. In life there are … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01022024
This Is A Daily Reminder by Nicolette This is a daily reminderTo relax,To not get angry over small things,To stay calm. This is a daily reminderTo be yourself,To not care what people think,To know you can be anything. This is a daily reminderTo love yourself,To not hurt yourself,To not work yourself up. This is a … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 01012024
Burning the Old Year BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Letters swallow themselves in seconds.Notes friends tied to the doorknob,transparent scarlet paper,sizzle like moth wings,marry the air. So much of any year is flammable,lists of vegetables, partial poems.Orange swirling flame of days,so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 12312023
CLASSIC POETRY The Spires of Oxford by Winifred M. Letts (1882 – 1972) I saw the spires of OxfordAs I was passing by,The gray spires of OxfordAgainst the pearl-gray sky.My heart was with the Oxford menWho went abroad to die. The years go fast in Oxford,The golden years and gay,The hoary Colleges look downOn careless … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 12302023
CLASSIC POETRY GRAVITY Center, how from all beingsyou pull yourself, even from those that flywinning yourself back, irresistible center. He who stands: as a drink through thirstgravity plunges down through him. But from the sleeper falls (as though from a motionless cloud)the abundant rain of the heavy. Rilke, Rainer Maria. Ahead of All Parting (p. … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 12292023
POETRY As Much As We Argue by Zach Watson As much as we argue,As much as we fight,We always turn it around by the end of the night. I really do love you.I really do care.I really hope you will always be there. Zach Watson. “As Much As We Argue.” Family Friend Poems, September 4, … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 12282023
CLASSIC POETRY – INSPIRATIONAL You Will Never See Me Fall BY Joyce Alcantara You may see me struggle,but you won’t see me fall.Regardless if I’m weak or not,I’m going to stand tall.Everyone says life is easy,but truly living it is not.Times get hard,people struggleand constantly get put on the spot.I’m going to wear the biggest … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 12262023
Imitation by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin I saw the Death, and she was seatingBy quiet entrance at my own home,I saw the doors were opened in my tomb,And there, and there my hope was a-flittingI’ll die, and traces of my pastIn days of future will be never sighted,Look of my eyes will never be delightedBy dear … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10232023
You Smiled, You Spoke, And I Believed by Walter Savage Landor You smiled, you spoke, and I believed,By every word and smile deceived.Another man would hope no more;Nor hope I what I hoped before:But let not this last wish be vain;Deceive, deceive me once again! Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10222023
Cross by Langston Hughes My old man’s a white old manAnd my old mother’s black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If ever I cursed my black old motherAnd wished she were in hell,I’m sorry for that evil wishAnd now I wish her wellMy old man died in a fine big … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10212023
A Death Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,Whah de branch ‘ll go a-singin’ as it pass.An’ w’en I’s a-layin’ low,I kin hyeah it as it goSingin’, ‘Sleep, my honey, tek yo’ res’ at las’.’ Lay me nigh to whah hit meks a little pool,An’ de watah stan’s … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10102023
A Scrap of Time by Susan Williams I need to find time-a scrap of timeunnoticedby the demands of everyday lifethat chews up every morsel of time it can find. I want to meditate on these stray birds of thought-I want to know that my lifewas more than washing dishesand waiting for the phone to ringbearing … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10092023
Hope Your Happy by Jessica Anonymous I hope your happy with your lifeI hope your happy with your wifeI hope you see what you have doneI hope you see that this is all wrong I hope you realise that your not perfectI hope you see that money’s not worth itI hope you realise that family … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10082023
On Verge Of Autumn by Nosheen Irfan Sultry heatA tad bit softenedBut concrete is still burningWith rays of summerTrees are getting readyFor autumnA radical discolorationA jaw-droppingTransformationThat would leaveThe worldWide-eyedWith a slight melancholyTeasing the thoughtsChange is comingAre you ready for changeA whisper cuts the airLike a new knifeAre you ready to let goThe question dropsFrom nature’s … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10072023
Changes by Susan Williams changes in the warmth of the soilfrom spring to summer to autumn to winterchanges in the fall of rainfrom warm and pattering to cold and slashingchanges in the sunlightfrom falling through the leaves to tracing patterns on our skin to fading to grey..change has been in the windfor a long long … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10062023
Butterflies Poem by Scarlet ….. a symbol of changea symbol of freedoma symbol of lighta sign of beautya warning for the coming calmfor I lay and dreamdreams about these wonderful creaturesI watch them flutterI watch them flow throw my mindthey are so beautiful with there wings spread freedoes that mean change is to come my … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10052023
September Changes by Jessica Millsaps September is like no otherIt’s days change color and weatherNo other month can say quite the sameFor every day, I can feel the change It’s cool breezes start out warm,Changing to cold throughout every stormThe leaves change and fallAs the Summer leaves and Autumn kisses us all September maidens feel … Continue reading Poem of the Day -10042023
Change by SALINI NAIR Change is a challengeChange is a fearChange is the change of mindChange is a change of attitudeChange is a change of way of lifeChange is the change of recognizedChange is the change of mysteriousChange is the change to solitudeChange is the change to perfectionChange is the change to unknown ethicsChange is … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10032023
THE MAGICIAN by Rainer Maria Rilke He calls it up. It shudders and begins. What does? The Other; all that he is not comes into being. And the whole being turns a sudden face, far realer than he thought. Magician, oh endure, endure, endure! Make equilibrium. Stand upon one scale with all you own, and … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 10012023
Peace by Naseer Ahmed Nasir A beautiful singing birdImprisoned in a golden cageWaiting to be freedSince the hominoid age! Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09302023
What’s The Use Of A Title? by Charles Bukowski They don’t make itthe beautiful die in flame-suicide pills, rat poison, rope what-ever…they rip their arms off,throw themselves out of windows,they pull their eyes out of the sockets,reject lovereject hatereject, reject. they don’t make itthe beautiful can’t endure,they are butterfliesthey are dovesthey are sparrows,they don’t make … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09292023
Divine Family by Kumarmani Mahakul Family is a familiar word, everybody does know,It is a set of relation, can you say no?The set is just combination of children and parent,There members of households and relatives are inherent. It means to group of person closely related by blood,It includes parents, children, uncle and aunts in one … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09282023
CLASSIC POETRY Peace Xviii – Kahlil Gibran The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The stars appeared as broken remnants of lightning, but now silence prevailed over all, as if Nature’s war had never been fought. At that hour a young woman entered … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09272023
CLASSIC POETRY Egypt, Tobago by Derek Walcott There is a shattered palmon this fierce shore,its plumes the rusting helm-et of a dead warrior. Numb Antony, in the torporstretching her inertsex near him like a sleeping cat,knows his heart is the real desert. Over the dunesof her heaving,to his heart’s drummingfades the mirage of the legions, … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09262023
As I Grew Older Poem by Langston Hughes It was a long time ago.I have almost forgotten my dream.But it was there then,In front of me,Bright like a sun—My dream.And then the wall rose,Rose slowly,Slowly,Between me and my dream.Rose until it touched the sky—The wall.Shadow.I am black.I lie down in the shadow.No longer the light … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09242023
CLASSIC POETRY The Rebel by Mari Evans When I die I’m sure I will have a Big Funeral … Curiosity seekers …coming to see if I am really Dead … or just trying to make Trouble … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09202023
CLASSIC POETRY Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule-From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE- out of TIME. Bottomless vales and boundless floods,And chasms, and caves, … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 09192023
Marie Rainer Rilke’s Faces Have I said it before? I am learning to see. Yes, I am beginning. It’s still going badly. But I intend to make the most of my time. For example, it never occurred to me before how many faces there are. There are multitudes of people, but there are many more … Continue reading Poem of the Day
ANGEL DUST by GIL SCOTT-HERON He was groovin’and that was when he coulda swornthe room was movin’But that was only in his mindHe was sailin’he never really seemed to noticevision failin’’cause that was all part of the highSweat was pourin’ —he couldn’t take itThe room was exploding —he might not make it.Angel Dust/Please, children would … Continue reading Poem of the Day
One of the things I enjoy doing other than writing poetry is reading it. This weekend while I was reorganizing my library, I discovered this gem I would like to share with you. If We Must Die POETRY – BY CLAUDE McKAY If we must die—let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an … Continue reading Poem of the day – National Poetry Month
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