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
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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
Classic
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
Contemporary Poems
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.
3 A.M. by Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones founded Lost Prophet Press in 1992 and published the literary magazines Thin Coyote and Knuckle Merchant: the Journal of Naked Literary
Someday I’ll be dead and as for pizza by Gale Acuff
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. His poems have appeared in Ascent, Reed, Arkansas Review, Poem, Slant, Aethlon, Florida Review
From New to Old
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
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
Classic
John Donne–Meditation XVII
John Donne was an English poet born in 1572. He died in 1631. Donne has had a major influence on many generations of poets especially of the metaphysical variety.
When I was a Bird–Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was born in 1888 and died in 1923. Prominent in the modernist movement as a short fiction writing, her poetry is lesser know.
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
To Celia by Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) To Celia Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove’s nectar sup, I would not […]