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When despair for the world grows in me / and I wake in the night at the least sound / in fear of what...

love is believable in every moment of exhaustion in every heartbroken home by Lisa Zaran — Read on Hello Poetry.

Read The Time I Like Best poem by Roger McGough written. The Time I Like Best poem is from Roger McGough poems. The Time I Like Best poem summary, analysis and comments.

Read Longing poem by Sara Teasdale written. Longing poem is from Sara Teasdale poems. Longing poem summary, analysis and comments.

Read Warning poem by Jenny Joseph written. Warning poem is from Jenny Joseph poems. Warning poem summary, analysis and comments.

Read Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye written. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep poem is from Mary Elizabeth Frye poems. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep poem summary,…

If you can't wait to pick a book right now And read it through until the very end To find out who did what, and why, and how, Then—lucky you!—you're a…

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks…

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.   Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen…

& what if hope crashes through the door what if that lasts a somersault? hope for serendipity even if a series of meals were all between us even if…

in your arms it was incredibly often enough to be  in your arms careful as we had to be at times about the I.V. catheter in my hand, or my wrist, or my…

“Where flowers bloom so does hope” — Lady Bird Johnson. Come explore more in our 10th Anniversary Issue: vol 7, i.1...

“Where flowers bloom so does hope” — Lady Bird Johnson. Come explore more in our 10th Anniversary Issue: vol 7, i.1...

For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing…

No, I don’t mean the bread is torn like cotton, I said confetti, and no not the confetti a tank can make of a building.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the…