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Confession
By Countee Cullen
If for a day joy masters me,
Think not my wounds are healed;
Far deeper than the scars you see,
I keep the roots concealed.

They shall bear blossoms with the fall;
I have their word for this,
Who tend my roots with rains of gall,
And...
Love
Heartache & Loss
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Fall
Social Commentaries
Race & Ethnicity
Living
Sorrow & Grieving
For All Ages
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November Sunday Morning
By Alvin Feinman
And the light, a wakened heyday of air
Tuned low and clear and wide,
A radiance now that would emblaze
And veil the most golden horn
Or any entering of a sudden clearing
To a standing, astonished, revealed . . .

That the actual streets I...
Nature
Fall
Trees & Flowers
Post Truth
By David Tait
A week of autumn snow, and today the sun,
the buildings fizzy with melting, the beggar
draping his sheets over the bank's homeless-spikes.

My daughter runs under the sycamore trees,
shouts look it’s still snowing, it’s still snowing,
clumps of old snow falling around her.

Who...
Nature
Fall
Trees & Flowers
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Living
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Verse Forms
Sonnet
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August 15
By Zakaria Mohammed
Translated By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
I await the end of August and the murder of September.
I am here, tardy Autumn, waiting for you. I’ve prepared you a wheat porridge and lit a fire. Come with your wind and sweep away the shameless sun. Lift its...
Nature
Fall
A Mabon Crown
By Annie Finch
Our voices press
from us
and twine
around the year's
fermenting wine

Yellow fall roars
Over the ground.
Loud, in the leafy sun that pours
Liquid through doors,
Yellow, the leaves twist down

as the winding
of the vine
pulls our curling
voices—

Glowing in wind and change,
The orange leaf tells

How one more season...
Nature
Summer
Fall
Trees & Flowers
October
By May Swenson
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A smudge for the horizon
that, on a clear day, shows
the hard edge of hills and
buildings on the other coast.
Anchored boats all head one way:
north, where the wind comes from.
You can see the storm inflating
out of the west. A dark hole
in...
Nature
Fall
Animals
Weather
The Body
Relationships
Family & Ancestors
And Now It’s September,
By Barbara Crooker
and the garden diminishes: cucumber leaves rumpled
and rusty, zucchini felled by borers, tomatoes sparse
on the vines. But out in the perennial beds, there’s one last
blast of color: ignitions of goldenrod, flamboyant
asters, spiraling mums, all those flashy spikes waving
in the...
Nature
Fall
Trees & Flowers
Autumnal Equinox
By Joseph Massey
Sober for once, for what—
for the words to budge.

We spent summer propped up
by each other's stuttering.

There are seasons here
if you squint. And there's

relief in the landscape's
sloughed off cusps of color

fallen over the familiar
landmarks, the familiar

trash—things that last.
Nature
Summer
Fall
Social Commentaries
Cities & Urban Life
Town & Country Life
Living
Joy & Contentment
fallen leaves
By John Brandi
fallen leaves
the abbot sweeps
around them
Nature
Fall
Religion
Activities
Verse Forms
Haiku
Joy & Contentment
Jean Rhys
By Sandra Lim
It’s now within
an hour of sundown of a late
November afternoon.

It was a beautiful day,
the cold burned
down any indignation.

What won’t degrade:
the sick and distant, or near and black,
bad-natured tides of want.

Jean Rhys is saying
If I could jump out of the window
one...
Nature
Fall
Living
Life Choices
Arts & Sciences
Poetry & Poets
Reading & Books
Disappointment
Grief
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I Saw This Day Coming
By Stacy Szymaszek
I saw this day coming         class would end       and it would be night
            time to attach         bike lights               tonight I lit my way
with a cigarette
                    I asked if petticoat ding a ling         was a fun bar
NO...
Nature
Fall
Relationships
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Poetry & Poets
Halloween
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Thirst
By Antonia Pozzi
Translated By Amy Newman
Now you want me to tell you
a history of fish
while the lake clouds over?
But don’t you see
how thirst beats in the throat
of the lizards on the crushed leaves?
On the ground
autumn’s dead hedgehogs
have plunged through the periwinkles.
And you chew
the parched stalks:
already...
Nature
Fall
Animals
Landscapes & Pastorals
Living
Time & Brevity
Relationships
Anxiety & Insecurity
Melancholy & Despair
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Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

Today the moon sees fit to come between a parched earth
    and sun, hurrying the premature darkness. A rooster in the yard
            cuts off its crowing, fooled into momentary sleep.
               And soon the Perseid showers, broken...
Nature
Fall
Stars, Planets, Heavens
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Cities & Urban Life
Race & Ethnicity
History & Politics
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Death
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Arts & Sciences
Independence Day
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Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower
By Bradley Trumpfheller
From up here in the leaves’ no-kidding goldishness
you’d guess everyone was already in lovely w/ each
others’ cheekbones. Infinity scarves
& vanilla coffee, mint tea, warm whatever.
Cozy becoming the coming-at-the-seams, a couplet
of verbs mid-bodily inexperience.
That man doing cartwheels is not wearing a...
Love
Desire & Passion
Nature
Fall
Trees & Flowers
Social Commentaries
Gender & Sexuality
Religion
The Spiritual
Relationships
Family & Ancestors
Arts & Sciences
Language & Linguistics
Joy & Contentment
Optimism
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The Death of a Soldier
By Wallace Stevens
Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.

He does not become a three-days personage,
Imposing his separation,
Calling for pomp.

Death is absolute and without memorial,
As in a season of autumn,
When the wind stops,

When the wind stops and,...
Nature
Fall
Weather
Social Commentaries
War & Conflict
Living
Death
Sorrow & Grieving
Memorial Day
Grief
Melancholy & Despair
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Gathering Leaves
By Robert Frost
Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.

But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.

I may load and...
Nature
Fall
Trees & Flowers
The Mind
Doubt & Contemplation
Stanza Forms
Rhymed Stanza
Disappointment
Sports and Outdoor Activities
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The Census-Taker
By Robert Frost
I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening
To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house
Of one room and one window and one door,
The only dwelling in a waste cut over
A hundred square miles round it in the mountains:
And that not dwelt in now by...
Nature
Fall
Trees & Flowers
Social Commentaries
Town & Country Life
Living
Sorrow & Grieving
Time & Brevity
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The Comedian as the Letter C
By Wallace Stevens
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The World without Imagination

Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
Of snails, musician of...
Nature
Spring
Fall
Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Living
Parenthood
The Mind
Doubt & Contemplation
Relationships
Home Life
Activities
Travels & Journeys
Arts & Sciences
Humor & Satire
Language & Linguistics
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Blank Verse
Anxiety & Insecurity
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Six Quatrains
By Ursula K. Le Guin
AUTUMN

gold of amber
red of ember
brown of umber
all September

MCCOY CREEK

Over the bright shallows
now no flights of swallows.
Leaves of the sheltering willow
dangle thin and yellow.

OCTOBER

At four in the morning the west wind
moved in the leaves of...
Nature
Spring
Fall
Winter
Landscapes & Pastorals
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Time & Brevity
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Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today
By Emily Jungmin Yoon
I read a Korean poem
with the line “Today you are the youngest
you will ever be.” Today I am the oldest
I have been. Today we drink
buckwheat tea. Today I have heat
in my apartment. Today I think
about the word chada in Korean.
It...
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August 15

Jean Rhys

Thirst

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower