Poem
By Cameron Awkward-Rich
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside...
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Techniques
A comparison that is made without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than.” Read More
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- PoemBy Peter O’LearyIn a windthe lake's scissoring surfaceand the Sun's vernal glarethe gulls cut to curlsin their turns...
- PoemBy Sri ChinmoyUltimately everything Becomes boring.Even great miracles Become boring.Even the tremendous powers of...
- PoemBy Ada LimónMy brother holds a snake by its head. The whole length of the snake is the length of my brother’s body...
- PoemBy Ada LimónIs it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones— is it okay not to look out this window, but...
- PoemBy Ada LimónI pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the...
- ArticleBy Peter O’Leary
One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
- PoemBy R. L. SwihartThe young man says, “Alan can do anything he wants”“Not fly,” I sayThe young man returns a puzzled look...
- PoemBy Cornelius EadyI’m here to tell you an old story. ThisAppears to be my work. I live in the world,Walk the streets of...
- PoemBy Cornelius EadySome folks will tell you the blues is a woman,Some type of supernatural creature.My mother would tell...
- PoemBy Sri ChinmoyWithin, without the cosmos wide am I;In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.A birthless, deathless...
- PoemBy Stephen Ratcliffelight coming into fog against invisible top of ridge, blue jay on redwood fence in foreground, sound...
- ArticleBy Tyler MaloneFor a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
- PoemBy Frank X. Walker...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
- PoemBy Cole Swensena river slips in shifting leaves sifting. a river sifts and falls to pieces in which not seen (this ...
- PoemHe was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
- PoemBy John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
- PoemBy Paisley RekdalHow horrible it is, how horrible that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped with a fly inside his...
- PoemBy David RoderickI wear a flower in my lapel. I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose. A carnation, the fool’s flower...
- PoemBy Helene AchanzarI wish I had hiked the frozen hill tonight for reception, called to tell you I had a good time hearing...