My ship is waiting and I have to go. Yes, this is our farewell. I won't say I'll Return, sweet Princess. But I won't forget The fairest of the maids who dropped their veils And laundry baskets...

Straight Talk for High-Risk Children
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High Risk Children
By Reid Baer

My unipolar mother whistled past the graveyard
or more correctly groaned enviously...

An unpublished poem written by Lillian Leslie Newman roughly around the turn of the century.

Baby baptized in the church: witness Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin People post all kinds of personal things on the web. When writing something, even a poem, it is better not to be...

A difficult poem to recite, without breaking down in tears. I dare you. Go Down, Death Weep not, weep not, She is not dead; She's resting in the bosom of Jesus. Heart-broken...

The movie that played in my mind when I wrote this piece was that of an absentee father whose work took him to witness the problems of the world, only to find out when he retired home that he...

Blissfully, I embrace you my prodigious husband; my sublime love for your soul infused into mine intoxicates me, yielding me into total delectation. Our hearts pound en massed and our breath...

Drowning in a sea of sadness
With all my strength I hold back the tears
My chest aches, my throat tightened,
as a melancholic melody sings in my head.
Always yearning to...

A Kashmiri woman is waiting for her husband from across the border. The day comes when he finally arrives. She welcomes him with a lot of fervour. They eat together after a long time. But this...

video poem presentation English translation: The poem 'Mùa Khổ - Người Đàn bà Phú Yên' invites readers, especially Vietnamese readers, to a narrative poem on the death of a mother in...