Poems

Here is a list of my favourite poems. Needs cleaning.

However, I’ve also stored the full text of some poems, either because they were ephemeral, or hard-to-find, or other reasons. Click on the links in the items below to see them.

About horses and ponies

@play-now-my-lord

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds

Ada Limón

After Cardiac Arrest

S. M. Badawi

After the Threesome

Sue Hyon Bae

And death shall have no dominion

Dylan Thomas

And I think in this lifetime, love is listening to you explain what the different drivers on my computer are for

Laura Jean Henebry

And the universe said

Minecraft

Archaic Torso of Apollo

Rainer Maria Rilke

Astrophil and Stella

Sir Philip Sidney

At the Pool

Effie Lee Newsome

...Awakened, he

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

A Brave and Startling Truth

Maya Angelou

A first date at 2x speed

Mina Lucania

A Good Day

Kait Rokowski

A Myth of Devotion

Louise Glück

A Pastoral

Sarah Williams

[A rose has thorns as well as honey,]

Christina Rossetti

A Toast to the Alchemists

Laura Giplin

Beaufort Wind Scale

Before Parting

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Canticle 6

May Sarton

Cyanometer for my Heart

Isabella Streffen

Dante in Sardinia

Aria Aber

Dear Travel

Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay

Don Juan Canto II, IV.

Lord Byron

Ekphrasis On “The New York Times” Headline “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom”

Emily Khilfeh

The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem

@cuttlefish

For twenty-year-olds who have never been loved

@writings-for-winter

Fragment 147

Sappho

From the Point of View of a Cat

Karel Capek

Good Timber

Douglas Malloch

Green Tea Haiku

Neil Whitman

Having a Coke with You (& descendants)

Frank O'Hara, Mark Leidner, @parisol

How Some Of It Happened

Marie Howe

If—

Rudyard Kipling

Immortality

Clare Harner

Instructions for traveling west

Joy Sullivan

Interview with a Falling Angel

Gregory Orr

Invictus

William Ernest Henley

I find myself wishing

@redwinesupernova

I had been used

Unknown

I think I am going to cut my hair

@seravph

I want everybody to live very close

@lordcowboy

I Will Love You

Laura Jean Henebry

La Belle Dame sans Merci

John Keats

Poems

Litany

Rebecca Lindenberg

Lucy Gray

William Wordsworth

Maria and Oceanus

Erin Coughlin Hollowell

My brother, listen, do not be afraid.

birdblogwhichisforbirds

My God, It's Full of Stars

Tracy K. Smith

New Worlds Are Just Around the Bend

Elizabeth Marie Young

New Year

V. H. Friedlaender

Nihil Supernum

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Nocturne

Sadakichi Hartmann

Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats

Oh Boy!

On Marriage

Neil Gaiman

Orphee

Neil Gaiman

Orpheus and Eurydice

@mag200

Oversized peas

@dharmagun

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Passing

Victoria Chang

Physics Poems

Steve Biller

Pi

Wisława Szymborska

plum

@utopians

Portrait of a Lady

T. S. Eliot

Prayer for the Mutilated World

Sam Sax

Qualities of Light

Cameron McLeod Martin

Roses are red

collaborative

Rule #2

@tearlessrain

Selected Poems

Emily Dickinson

She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron

S'i' fosse foco

Cecco Angiolieri

Skull Song

Genevieve Taggard

Teller's Atomic Alphabet

Edward Teller

The Art of Disappearing

Akiko Busch

The Detection of Shocked Co/ Emission from G333.6-0.2

J. W. V. Storey

The ewe

Tom Snarsky

The Last Orgasm

Tobias Wray

The Months

Linda Pastan

the moon is not confused

Jessica Coles

The More Loving One

W. H. Auden

The Old Astronomer

Sarah Williams

The Orange

Wendy Cope

The Purse-Seine

Robinson Jeffers

The Sciences Sing a Lullabye

Albert Goldbarth

the sky is flirting with me

Jessica Coles

The Solitary Reaper

William Wordsworth

The Wayfarers

Rupert Brooke

The Whistler

Mary Oliver

The Wine-Dark Sea

Patrick O'Brian

Tower of Babel

Orlando Ricardo Menes

To Kirsten

Emily St. John Mandel

Tulips

Sylvia Plath

twenty years across the sea

@two-bees-poetry

Unladen

@pencappoetry

Voyager Golden Record

Want

Joan Larkin

Warning

Jenny Joseph

Werewolf fridge poem

@shminsington

What Do Women Want? (A Biology Valentine)

@cuttlefish

Why I Am Not Coming Into Work Today

Jess Zimmerman

Wild Geese

Mary Oliver

You Still Haven't Met All of the People You Are Going To Love

Laura Jean Henebry