Among the poems in his collection “Pomes Penyeach” (1927) is the 1913 poem “A Flower Given to My Daughter.” In two quatrains rhymed abab, the poem moves through a progression of increasing frailty: a ...

Poem: A sorrowful flower A poem from a Century High School graduate. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay. By Amina Hasan. November 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM. Share Share this article.

The World Is Breaking in Flowers the Breath of Things. By Precious Okoyomon. Our love is a blue instant and forward-looking sky Every dream is a moment of freedom Bliss hovering above the void ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

In “Tree Fall with Birdsong,” Kendall Dunkelberg’s fourth poetry collection, we are continually witnessing the melody of the natural world. From warblers to crows to the lakes and swamps of ...

Flowers, like those behind, sprang up ahead, As if to vouch for some primordial promise. He’d stop short, and the past would not be dead, Nor would the flowers—in their imperfect beauty, Imperfect ...

Hernandez’s first collection of poems, “Flower Grand First,” was published in 2021 by Moon Tide Press. His two-year appointment as poet laureate of Orange County started Jan. 1.