Poems
Poem of The Day
By Dorothea Grossman
Among other things,
thanks for explaining
how the generous death
of old trees
forms
the red powdered floor
of the forest.
thanks for explaining
how the generous death
of old trees
forms
the red powdered floor
of the forest.
Poem of The Day
By Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in...
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in...
Poem of The Day
By Rose Zinnia
i’m evolving from sadtrans to joytrans & g-d is my pokémon trainer
i only expect i will have a final form by the circumstance of my being
perishable when i enter a room my brain calculates how many ppl might be clocking me & how
i am trying to let wonder & uncertainty dom me every day
sometimes i’m feral napcore audhd hyporheic…
i only expect i will have a final form by the circumstance of my being
perishable when i enter a room my brain calculates how many ppl might be clocking me & how
i am trying to let wonder & uncertainty dom me every day
sometimes i’m feral napcore audhd hyporheic…
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Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong
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An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth. See Sandra McPherson’s “Triolet” or “Triolets in the Argolid” by Rachel Hadas.
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From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemBy Carmen GiménezIn Lima, my mother screams from her bed and from a garden
and in the parlor of her nursing home, and… - PoemBy Nikki GiovanniI watched Mommy
Cook
Though I cooked
With Grandmother
With Grandmother I learned
To pluck chickens
Peel carrots
Turn chittlins inside out
Scrub pig feet
With Mommy I watched
leftovers for stew
Or vegetable soup
Great northern beans
Mixed collards turnips and mustard greens
Garlic cloves Bay Leaves
Very beautifully green
Stiff so fresh
With just a... - PoemBy Tayi TibbleRinsing the sea salt out of our bikinis
with the drinking water and getting a slap
upside the head from your mother with her
House & Garden magazine reserved especially
for fanning away mosquitoes and sighing
because we know that this is how
it’s always going...
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