Poem Examples and Samples

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…

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…

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…

*Found poems are composed by finding words and phrases from different sources. ———————— An avatar with a difference is a vibrancy of design like ceremonies…

I swam in the inner ocean watching creatures float by without affection or disdain. I received the tranquility of the ocean’s pulse. Not doing, only…

We are attacked by distractions wanting us to not be ourselves watch the play of illusions with a serene mind peace comes to those who…

Nothing more satisfying than forgetting your name, history, and aspirations The emptiness of pure consciousness is the most joy-giving Don’t fear your life being taken…

Billions of dollars for a ball. To be hit far away. To be juggled. To be put in a hole. To be shot into a…

I am born in a different place each morning haystack city pavilion ocean bottom depends on how much I believe in the science of myself I…

Li Bai Thoughts in the Silent Night Beside my bed a pool of light— is it hoarfrost on the ground? I lift my eyes and…

we create jobs to buy food and shelter when Earth provides it we follow ambition to garner self-worth when we are born with all necessities…

Wrinkles are time-texture. What’s underneath slow, inevitable folds? If we creased them out would the child be there?

  I have not heard silence more than in music   the hollow of a bell the harmony of a singer the puncturing of a…

Let me breathe for you write your fable-life until true reconstruct your body without rule be your mirror and reflection too grandeur in living your…