Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Cento Between the Ending and the End

by Cameron Awkward-Rich[Excerpt]“it is like the worldhasn’t happenedwhen I call outall my friends are thereeveryone we loveis still alive gatheredat..

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Silhouette

by Janice Lobo Sapigao[Excerpt]”more and more of my friendsare becoming parents or partnersto plantsi have lived long and short enoughto remember the..

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To The Oppressors

by Pauli Murray“Now you are strongAnd we are but grapes aching with ripeness.Crush us!Squeeze from us all the brave lifeContained in these full..

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i want to apologize

by rupi kaur“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautifulbefore i’ve called them intelligent or bravei am sorry i made it sound as..

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A Time To Talk

by Robert Frost“When a friend calls to me from the roadAnd slows his horse to a meaning walk,I don’t stand still and look aroundOn all the hills I..

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Love and Friendship

by Emily Bronte[Excerpt]“Love is like the wild rose-briar,Friendship like the holly-tree—The holly is dark when the rose-briar bloomsBut which will..

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Comrades Four

by Claude McKay[Excerpt] “Dear comrades, my comrades, My heart is always true;An’ ever an’ ever I shall remember you.We all joined together, ..

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acknowledgments

by Danez Smith[Excerpt]“at the function, i feel myself splitting into too many rooms of staticyou touch my hand & there i am•do you want to be..

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1383

by Emily Dickinson“Long Years apart – can make noBreach a second cannot fill –The absence of the Witch does notInvalidate the spell –The embers of a..

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Red Brocade

by Naomi Shihab Nye[Excerpt]“The Arabs used to say,When a stranger appears at your door,feed him for three daysbefore asking who he is,where he’s..

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On Friendship

by Khalil Gibran[Excerpt]“And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered. He is..

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Sybil

by Julia Ward Howe[Excerpt]“Your head is wild with books, Sybil, But your heart is good and kind—I feel a new contentment near you, A..

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My Friends

by Ali Power[Excerpt] “why be evasivewhen you can listen to an audio bookabout a biologiston a mysterious expeditionto Area Xan area cut off from..

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To All My Friends

by HAUNTIE[Excerpt]“To all my friends who have been with me in weaknesswhen water falls rush down my two sidesTo all my friends who have felt me in..

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What is the greatest gift?

by Mary Oliver[Excerpt]“What is the greatest gift?Could it be the world itself—the oceans, the meadowlark,the patience of the trees in the wind?Could..

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In The Company Of Women

by January Gill-O’Neil[Excerpt]“Make me laugh over coffee,make it a double, make it frothyso it seethes in our delight.Make my cup overflowwith your..

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Alone

by Maya Angelou[Excerpt]“Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one..

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Conches on Christmas

By Mike ChasarDiluvian, draggled and derelict posse, thisbarnacled pod so palesnext to everything we hear of red tides and pilot whalesthat a word..

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Advent Calendar

By Gjertrud SchnackenbergBethlehem in Germany,Glitter on the sloping roofs,Breadcrumbs on the windowsills,Candles in the Christmas trees,Hearths..

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Christmas, 1970

By Sandra M. CastilloWe assemble the silver tree,our translated lives,its luminous branches,numbered to fit into its body.place its metallic rootsto..

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The Burning Babe

By Robert Southwell SJAs I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And..

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To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris

By Helen Maria WilliamsWhat crowding thoughts around me wake,What marvels in a Christmas-cake!Ah say, what strange enchantment dwellsEnclosed within..

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[little tree]

By E. E. Cummingslittle treelittle silent Christmas treeyou are so littleyou are more like a flowerwho found you in the green forestand were you..

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Mistletoe

By Walter de La MareSitting under the mistletoe(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),One last candle burning low,All the sleepy dancers gone,Just one candle..

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The Oxen

By Thomas HardyChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in..

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