They’ve vanished now, although Two common, everyday realities Stay put and visible like winter birds: The suffering and death of innocents; Love’s presence, unavailing, undeterred. This poem appears ...

Mallika Bhaumik’s poetry abounds in metaphors – of time, birds, fireflies, the morning raga, Ahir Bhairav, including very ...

Oh, bird, as you’re flying over my home, Before you leave and after you roam, Say hi to those whom I left behind Give them my love if you’re so inclined. . Tell them the nights here are too ...

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in ...

Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic and freelance writer. His first book of poems, "Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems," won the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published by the ...

Cynthia Benjamin, in Pottersville, sent us an original poem about the birds she's been watching and listening to this spring: it's called For The Birds.

Bird began writing poetry as a child but it wasn't until her undergraduate writing course, run by someone from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop who introduced her to a roster of contemporary US poets ...

They can seem daunting to write but are wonderful to receive so here are a handful of tips to write your own love poem.