Poems of Today

W.H. Auden (1907-1973) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports ...

August Kleinzahler (1996) He was watching, looking down at the park from the 14th floor, waiting. There is an hour, an afternoon light well ...

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so. His set of...

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) I've been scarred and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, sun has baked me. Looks ...

Wallace Stevens (1954) At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that ...

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Who lies here with no stone to mark the place. As a boy r...

Kay Ryan (2000) Every day you say, Just one more try . Then another irrecoverable day slips by. You will say ankle , you will say knuckle ; ...