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Spring Storm by William Carlos Williams
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spring Storm William Carlos Williams 1883 – 1963 The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls as ...
The Visionary by Emily Brontë
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Visionary Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848 Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep,Watching every clo...
During this year's lunar eclipse by Maggie Devers
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During this year's lunar eclipse Maggie Devers I misplaced my shot glassAnd over-poured my negronisOr what's it called with port instead of vermouth?I...
Storm Chaser by Melanie Hess
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Storm Chaser Melanie Hess last week the riverbed cracked,its veins like autumn leaves,plows and combines idle in fieldsdinosaurs on the verge of extin...
Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861 We cannot live, except thus mutuallyWe alternate, aware or unaware,The reflex act of life: and when we b...
Fides, Spes by Willa Cather
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1873 – 1947 Joy is come to the little Everywhere;Pink to the peach and pink to the apple, White to the pe...
Sunday Recap & Proportions by Maggie Devers
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.May 12 - We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Di...
Dewdrops by Myra Viola Wilds
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dewdrops Myra Viola Wilds Watch the dewdrops in the morning, Shake their little diamond heads,Sparkling, flashing, ever moving, From their silent ...
Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Verse for a Certain Dog Dorothy Parker 1893 – 1967 Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes, Dear little friend of mine, I never knew.All...
Brood by Maggie Devers
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brood Maggie Devers The three hens at my daughter’s schoolAre oblivious to egg pricesConcerned with lunch scrapsAnd the stray termiteAnd their stair...
Letter #14 of 36 from "The Marilyn Rising: Letters to Marilyn" by GiGi
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Letter #14 of 36 from The Marilyn Rising: Letters to Marilyn GiGi Dearest Marilyn,Why didn't you speak up? Why didn't you say something?All of the mom...
The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 – 1950 Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I shall not care;Foolish am I to think about it...
We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Dickinson
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We never know how high we are Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886 We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan...
Sunday Recap & Mother by Maggie Devers
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. May 5 - How often we greet each other with worries by Ma...
What the Thrush Said by John Keats
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What the Thrush Said John Keats 1795 –1821 O Thou whose face hath felt the Winter’s wind,Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist,And the b...
Circe by H.D.
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Circe H.D. 1886 – 1961 It was easy enoughto bend them to my wish,it was easy enoughto alter them with a touch,but youadrift on the great sea,how sha...
Held by Maggie Devers
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Held Maggie Devers The sweetest meat is closest to the boneThe most tender, the most trueThe tissue there is hardest to reach,To manipulate from the o...
For My Daughter by Maggie Devers
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For My Daughter by Maggie Devers Chop off my head and put it on your shield.I will protect you until the day I dieAnd all the days after that.You thin...
Renewal of Strength by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Renewal of Strength Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 – 1911 The prison-house in which I liveIs falling to decay,But God renews my spirit’s streng...
How often we greet each other with worries by Maggie Devers
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How often we greet each other with worries by Maggie Devers I went to the wilderness to escapeAnd there are worries there too.Caterpillars falling fro...
A Lady by Amy Lowell
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Lady by Amy Lowell 1874 – 1925 You are beautiful and faded,Like an old opera tunePlayed upon a harpsichord;Or like the sun-flooded silksOf an eigh...
Radical by Marianne Moore
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radical by Marianne Moore 1887 – 1972 Taperingto a point, conserving everything, this carrot is predestined to be thick. ...
Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who Has Seen the Wind Christina Rossetti 1830 – 1894 Who has seen the wind?Neither I nor you.But when the leaves hang trembling,The wind is passing ...
The Spark by Maggie Devers
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Asking the age old question, where do we start?The Spark by Maggie Devers I try to think where her story starts.When I went to my parents' for the wee...
Announcing One Poem Only
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starting May 1, 2025.Mentioned in this episode:Join the mailing list to be the first to know when OPO submissions open ⬇️🖋️ Read My Newslette...