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The Miracle of Morning — Amanda Gorman	I thought I’d awaken to a world in mourning. Heavy clouds crowding, a society storming. But there’s something different on this golden morning. Something...	16,220 views Rate it
Taxi man — Peter Huang	road i cannot drive on the apartment cannot prolong the tires forever enveloped, and the enginge rusted in the molden insides of the blizzard....	7,905 views Rate it
The Female of the Species — Rudyard Kipling	When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends...	6,554 views Rate it
Tommy — Rudyard Kipling	I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an'...	5,579 views Rate it
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout — Shel Silverstein	Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out. She'd wash the dishes and scrub the pans Cook the yams and spice the hams, And though her...	5,274 views Rate it
Coming — Philip Larkin	On longer evenings, Light, chill and yellow, Bathes the serene Foreheads of houses. A thrush sings, Laurel-surrounded In the deep bare garden, Its...	4,076 views Rate it
Alone — Edgar Allan Poe	From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common...	3,268 views Rate it
* गोथां मिथिंगानि जोलै *** — BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR	* गोथां मिथिंगानि जोलै* By - Bangbula Brahma Uzir * साननि ओंखारनायाव सोरांनि रिफिनायजों बोला जेननाय मिथिंगानि हासार गोनां हायाव निजोम...	3,262 views Rate it
Ode To A Nightingale — John Keats	My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute...	2,844 views Rate it
Casey at the Bat — Ernest Lawrence Thayer	The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, And then when Cooney died at...	2,735 views Rate it
Lucy Gray — William Wordsworth	Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary...	2,607 views Rate it
THE TREEHOUSE — Gerald Logie	I finally agreed when he turned eight To build his ' Castle in the sky' With wooden steps nailed up the side Just so he could climb that high. Four...	2,410 views Rate it
Song of the Prettybird — Shay Alexi Stewart	I've lived 20 prettybird years Of this great big prettybird life And i think i pretty pretty pretty bird bird pretty much know what im talking about ...	2,136 views Rate it
A Senryu Tale of Genji — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A senryu poem About Prince Minamoto, The renown Genji. His life and journey In Japan’s Heian period In Old Kyoto. A Golden Era. The eleventh...	2,133 views Rate it
no breathing in class — michael rosen	Strict. We had a teacher who was so strict, you weren't allowed to breathe in her lessons. She used to stand out the front going, "No...	1,967 views Rate it
For whom the Bell Tolls — John Donne	PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better...	1,649 views Rate it
The Rainbow — William Wordsworth	My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow...	1,598 views Rate it
America for Me — Henry Van Dyke	'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, To admire the crumblyh castles and the statues and...	1,537 views Rate it
* अन्थाइ टापानि गोजा थैसाम * — BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR	* अन्थाइ टापानि गोजा थैसाम * By :- Bangbula Brahma Uzir * बै हाजो सेरफां हालामनि दैसा जिरि निजोरायाव नोंनि सोलेरनि गोजा थैआ दैसारि सिख्लाजों...	1,476 views Rate it
First Day at School — Roger McGough	A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, other children? So noisy? So much at home they...	1,437 views Rate it
Peace or Happiness…let it enfold you — Charles Bukowski	I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated. I had bad blood, a twisted mind, a precarious upbringing. I was hard as...	1,411 views Rate it
The Creation — James Weldon Johnson	And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely-- I'll make me a...	1,381 views Rate it
The Clans — Richard Calmit Adams	When the waters were so mighty As to reach the mountains high, And it seemed that all creation Surely then was doomed to die, Came the turtle to...	1,374 views Rate it
Will You II — Nobody Nose	Shall we title this poem Question Mark "?" For...	1,344 views Rate it
The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot	"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν...	1,305 views Rate it