Crocuses break through frozen soil as magpies watch from rooftops—a lyrical meditation on winter’s patience and spring’s promise in Summers’ evocative seasonal poem
Birds Send Him in Shock by Kushal Poddar
Birds Send Him in Shock” explores the haunting tension and trauma of conflict, using surreal imagery of birds, a porcelain bathtub, and a symbolic broken door
Momentary by Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae’s ‘Momentary’ explores the paradoxical nature of time through vivid imagery and philosophical contemplation. The poem captures fleeting instants as both insignificant and infinite
My Name is Jim and I’m a Poet by Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few
A Day at the Office by Mark Kerstetter
A Day at the Office by Mark Kerstetter Boggled. Paper stacked beneath a box of pencils, paint hardened in tubes, images not rendered fill mental picture frames like engorged intestines. A perimeter of nails, now rusty, encapsulates the unreliable frames. A pummeled palmetto bug drags itself out of the dust only to halt in the […]
The Intersection by Aaron Poochigian
AARON POOCHIGIAN earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A hallucinatory vision of paradise and poetic creation, where Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome becomes a symbol for the power and impermanence of artistic inspiration, blending exotic imagery
She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824) was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism and a poet whose life was almost as dramatic as his works.
They Say This House is Haunted by Stephanie DuPont
This haunting masterful poem from Stephanie DuPont invites readers into the tortured consciousness of a historic New England house, where the echoes of Salem’s dark past intertwine with supernatural visitors and centuries of accumulated secrets.
The Changeling by Charlotte Mew
The poem is narrated by a child who believes they are a changeling – a fairy child left in place of a human child
The Listeners by Walter De La Mare
Walter de la Mare, born in 1873 in Kent, England, began his career as a bookkeeper before transitioning to writing full-time
THE VAMPIRE by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Vampire” tells the story of a foolish man’s infatuation with a woman who doesn’t reciprocate his feelings
THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a haunting narrative poem that tells a tragic tale of love and sacrifice in 18th-century England.
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a narrative poem that tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by goblin merchants selling exotic
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many […]