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Album

Death has a life
of  its own. See
how its album
has grown in
a year and how
the sharp blot of it
has softened
till those could
almost be shadows
behind the
cherry blossoms
in this shot.
In fact you
couldn’t prove
they’re not.

41,493

poems

4,155

poets

207

poetic terms

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By feeling

Grief, desire, revolt, wonder. Start where the poem meets your life.

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Selected

Poems worth returning to

POEMS BY A CHILD …

Hilda Conkling

Running on Highway 30, the last leg …

Neal Bowers

the wind hits and returns it is easy to personify …

Robin Blaser

He, sad brother of darkness, …

William Davidson

O precious codex, volume, tome, …

Franklin Pierce Adams

VoL. XV …

Edwin Ford Piper

As the extinguished. …

Joshua Corey

I would rather grind my teeth to powder, …

Henry Zolinsky

The glossary

The language about poetry

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.

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