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Poets and Poems: J.P. Dancing Bear’s “The Abandoned Eye”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poets and Poems For Abandoned Eye

The poems in J.P. Dancing Bear’s “The Abandoned Eye” cut like razor blades, removing what we use to hide and obscure.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Humanity Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat’s “Love, Etc.”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Red flower love etc poems

Love Etc. reminds us what eternity is, and what part of it is contained within ourselves.

Filed Under: book reviews, Books, L.L. Barkat, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews

Ode to the Ode

By Marjorie Maddox 15 Comments

ode to a frog

Whether its in praise of a stapler, an old t-shirt or a frog, Marjorie Maddox tells us we need the “cadence of praise.” We need the Ode.

Filed Under: Animal Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Nature Poems, Ode Poems, Poems, poetry

Coming Home to Scotland and Scottish Poetry

By Ann Kroeker 39 Comments

Castle Clouds Scotland Scottish Poetry

Surprised by Scotland, a writer finds herself taken by her past, her present with Scottish poets, and maybe (who knows) her future.

Filed Under: Blog, George MacDonald, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, poetry, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Poetry

Poetry Classroom: Dona Nobis Pacem

By Todd Davis

Poetry Classroom Love Poems Todd Davis Poems

Our poetry classroom is a wonderful way to discuss and enjoy poems, with published poets and teachers. Up today: Dona Nobis Pacem.

Filed Under: Blog, Family Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Doors & Passageways: Playlist & Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 33 Comments

Red Door Poems Red Door Poetry

Listen to our new Doors & Passageways playlist, then write a doors or passageways poem, including a line of the lyrics if you like.

Filed Under: Blog, Doors Poems, love poems, love poetry, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, Train poems, writing prompts

Night Poetry: Stopping by Woods and Promises

By L.L. Barkat 39 Comments

Night poems Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost

Night poetry can be the poetry of promise. In the darkness, we can focus on what is most pressing, we can dream, we can make promises to ourselves or others

Filed Under: Blog, Courage Poems, love poems, love poetry, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Night Poetry: Playlist and Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 34 Comments

Night Poetry Night Poems

Night poetry easily lends itself to being love poetry. Like Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty.”

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Literary Tours: Poets House, New York City

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Poets House Lucille Clifton

Poets House is a place of reclamation, of your past and of your future.

Filed Under: Anniversary Poems, Blog, Friendship Poems, Hope Poems, Literary Tour, love poems, love poetry, Nature Poems, New York Literary, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry

Poets and Poems: R.S. Thomas’s “Poems to Elsi”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Poets and Poems: Poems to Elsi by R.S. Thomas

Poets and Poems looks at “Poems to Elsi” by R.S. Thomas, which provides insight into the Thomas marriage of more than 50 years.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poets

Ghazal Poetry: Sing the Old Songs

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

Ghazal Poetry Oryx in Desert

Ghazal poetry was traditionally a sung form, invoking other traditional symbols like the gazelle. Invoke an old song image for your own?

Filed Under: Blog, Ghazal Poems, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects

Exploring Poetry: Penning a Ghazal

By Seth Haines 3 Comments

Seth Haines tries his hand at penning a ghazal, a form of poetry that’s new to him, and finds himself sinking into its rhythms.

Filed Under: Blog, Ghazal Poems, love poems, love poetry

Twitter Party: The Poetry Home Repair Manual 2

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Six additional poems from Tweetspeak Poetry’s recent poetry jam on Twitter, prompted by line from Ted Kooser’s “The Poetry Home Repair Manual.”

Filed Under: love poetry, Poems about poetry, poetry, Twitter poetry

Poets and Poems: Sam Willetts and “New Light for the Old Dark”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poets and Poems highlights “New Light for the Old Dark” by Sam Willetts, which combines individual and family history for an effect both personal and universal.

Filed Under: book reviews, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Twitter Party: The Poetry Home Repair Manual

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Tweetspeak Poetry’s recent poetry jam on Twitter used Ted Kooser’s “The Poetry Home Repair Manual” for prompts — with some surprising results.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, Poems, Poems about poetry, poems about writing, poetry, Twitter poetry

Tattoo Poetry: Ode on a Grecian Urn Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

Tattoo poetry

Tattoo poetry is permanent poetry—captured by the body that bears it. There’s a sense in which it is locked in time and form, much the way the painted Greek lovers were perpetually locked to the vase in “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

Filed Under: Adam and Eve Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Ode Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Tattoo Poetry: Inked with an Author Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

Tattoo Poetry

Get inked with your author; give us a poem that tells the tale.

Filed Under: Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Tattoo Poems, Tattoos, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Top 10 Funny Poems

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

Cute Girl Laughing Top 10 Funny Poems

What makes for funny poems? Maybe the same things that make any writing funny. Enjoy a laugh and these ten funny poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, Children's Poetry, Dog Poems, Funniest Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems

Bottled & Canned: Surprise Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 17 Comments

Dolls in Cans Poetry

Have you ever opened a can, only to find something unexpected? Now’s your chance.

Filed Under: Blog, Bottled & Canned, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Top Ten Poems from Every Day Poems

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

top ten poems

Every weekday morning, we send a carefully-chosen poem, along with beautiful artwork, out to eagerly awaiting inboxes around the world. Here are our top recent Every Day Poems.

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Courage Poems, Every Day Poems, Family Poems, Father Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, love poems, love poetry, poetry

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