poem format

If it is true, what the Prophets write, That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for the sake of being polite,…

You were forever finding some new play. So when I saw you down on hands and knees In the meadow, busy with the new-cut hay,…

Thou still unravished bride of quietness! Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flow’ry tale more sweetly than…

Long, vast shapes cooled and flushed with darkness lidless windows glazed with a flashing luster from a little, pert café chirping up like a sparrow.…

light passes ridge to ridge flower to flower the hepaticas widespread under the light grow faint the petals reach inward blue tips bend toward the…

What are we set on earth for? Say, to toil; Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines For all the heat o’ the…

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.…

Tanka is a form of poetry from Japan, using only 5 lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables respectively. Tanka usually express emotions about a lover or a…