One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here) In movies, you can tell the...

For today's prompt, choose one of the words from the list below and write about how it feels to be that or--even better--to have been...

Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On At eleven, my granddaughter...

What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson published in his 2004 book, illegible address (Luquer Street Press) this is my suicide dress she...

My First Weeks by Sharon Olds Sometimes, when I wonder what I’m like, underneath, I think of my first two weeks, I was drenched with...

I read so many wonderful poems when I went looking (in my collection of poems and poetry books and on online in journals), and am sorry I...

A Readymade by Lucia Perillo Out of nowhere the phone rings, and the voice of a fat man answers: Hell-low bay-bee . . . each syllable its...

I admit it! I begin each day with Wordle, Quordle, and Hurdle, as well as the apps Red Herring and Word Search. And there are many other...

The stars around the beautiful moon by Sappho The stars around the beautiful moon Hiding their glittering forms Whenever she shines full...

Seedlings by Margaret Rozga pubished in Whale Road Review, Issue 26, 2022 First, water the seedlings. Yes, even before coffee, before...

NEW BEGINNINGS ARE OFTEN DISGUISED AS PAINFUL ENDINGS--LAO TZU Although it has officially been spring for weeks, it has only felt like...

End of April by Phillis Levin published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins (and posted here) Under a cherry tree I found a robin’s...

Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett published in Commonweal Magazine, January 2021 The little boy shouts "To infinity and beyond!" and...

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white,...

Was William Shakespeare actually born in April 23, 1564? We don't really know, but this is the date that is generally agreed upon for...

Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn With a first line taken from the tv listings A man is haunted by his father's ghost. Boy meets girl...

I hope you read today's blog poem, "Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew" by Pattiann Rogers before trying this prompt (if not, go read...

Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers published in her book, Splitting and Binding, and in Orion Magazine Out among the wet...

the way and the way things are by nila northSun gramma thinks about her grandchildren they’re losing the ways don’t know how to talk...

Use of the term "Easter Eggs" to refer to something hidden is, according to Dictionary.com, from the 1980s and the video games that I...