Poetry Index

Original Poems
The Collector
Daguerreotype
The Darkest Hour Beckons
Haiku #1
March On
Never Ending Now
Poetry Is
Rudimentary Mechanics for Elementary Minds
Rural Landscape
A Single Cause
Uninvited Guests
World Order

Poems by Outside Authors

The Arrival of the Past by Scott Owens
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
Bread by M.S. Merwin
The Cat by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Cats by Ann Iverson
Citizen of Dark Times by Kim Stafford
Cook by Jane Hirshfield
Discrepancies, Happy and Sad by Li-Young Lee
Elegy for a Walnut Tree by W. S. Merwin
Field Guide by Tony Hoagland
Folding My Clothes by Julia Alvarez
From Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen
Ginkgo Biloba by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History by Andrew Gent
House Hour by Robert Pinskey
In the Community Garden by Mark Doty
Jar of Buttons by Ted Kooser
The Journey by Mary Oliver
Kindness by Stephen Dunn
Learning the Bicycle by Wyatt Prunty
Leaving Early by Leanne O'Sullivan
Leisure by William Henry Davies
Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night (Three) by Mary Oliver
Looking for the Differences by Tom Hennen
The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Morning in May by Rosalind Brackenbury
New Year Resolve by May Sarton
Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda
Ordinary Life by Barbara Crooker
Pancake? by Shel Silverstein
A Perfect Mess by Mary Karr
A Prayer Among Friends by John Daniel
Proclamation at a Birth by Linda Pastan
Public Space by Ken Babstock
Rhubarb by Sheila Packa
September by Linda Pastan
Signs by Luci Sha
Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris
Some Days by Philip Terman
Some Glad Morning by Joyce Sutphen
Some People Think by James Laughlin
Spring by Linda Pastan
Spring Glen Grammar School (An excerpt from) by Donald Hall
Sweater Weather: A Love Song to Language by Sharon Bryan
To Be of Use by Marge Piercy
Today by Mary Oliver
Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Trust by Thomas R. Smith
Unharvested by Robert Frost
Want by Carrie Fountain
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
Winter Grace by Patricia Fargnoli
Winter is the Best Time by David Budbill
The Winter of Listening by David Whyte