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Poems found:
Madam and Her Madam by Langston Hughes
I worked for a woman,
Madam and the Phone Bill by Langston Hughes
You say I O.K.ed
Madrigal by Mary Leader
How the tenor warbles in April!
Magdalena Remembering by Maureen Gibbon
When I was young my body was money
maggie and milly and molly and may by E. E. Cummings
maggie and milly and molly and may
Majung Village by Ko Un
Over the steep, panting hills where
Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
Mama's Promise by Marilyn Nelson
I have no answer to the blank inequity
Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong
Mama, come back.
Mambo by Jaime Manrique
Against a topaz sky / Contra un cielo topacio
Mamma didn't raise no fools by Rebecca Wolff
He died before we could honor
Man and Camel by Mark Strand
On the eve of my fortieth birthday
Man and Wife by Robert Lowell
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
Man Carrying Thing by Wallace Stevens
The poem must resist the intelligence
Man in Clown Outfit by Gretchen Mattox
He's waving a plastic pointer, stiff flag enter lot here, parking
Man of the Year by Robin Becker
My father tells the story of his life
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
Mars Being Red by Marvin Bell
Being red is the color of a white sun where it lingers
Mary's Duties by Lola Haskins
He is rid away to the tenant farms
Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale
Mary had a little lamb,
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus [excerpt] by Denise Levertov
Praise the wet snow
Mastectomy by Wanda Coleman
the fall of
May by Kirmen Uribe
Look. May has come in
May Day by Phillis Levin
I've decided to waste my life again,
Maybe He’s Grateful but Get Out of His Way by Deborah Keenan
The Siberian tiger leaps from the back of the truck
Me in Paradise by Brenda Shaughnessy
Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked
Meaningful Love by John Ashbery
What the bad news was
Meat by August Kleinzahler
How much meat moves
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays by Charles Reznikoff
The solid houses in the mist
Medusa by Patricia Smith
Poseidon was easier than most.
Medusa by Frieda Hughes
She is the gypsy
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning
The gray sea and the long black land
Memorandum by Durs Grünbein
Everything continues much as before, especially the war
Memorial Day for the War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
Mennonites by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance
Mermaid Song by Kim Addonizio
Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself
Metamorphosis VIII, 611-724 by Ovid
THUS Achelous ends: his audience hear
Metaphors of a Magnifico by Wallace Stevens
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Mica Schist by Anne Pierson Wiese
St. Nicholas Park in Harlem is one of few spots
Michael's Wine by Sandra Alcosser
Winter again and we want
Migrating Birds by Mónica de la Torre
Victor got a real sense of power
Milton by David Groff
Not the poet—though yes,
Milton [excerpt] by William Blake
And did those feet in ancient time
Minerva Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
I am Minerva, the village poetess,
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Minor Miracle by Marilyn Nelson
Which reminds me of another knock-on-wood
Mirabeau Bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire
Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
Miracle Fair by Wislawa Szymborska
Commonplace miracle
Miracle Ice Cream by Adrienne Rich
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Miracles by Walt Whitman
Why, who makes much of a miracle
Misconceptions of Childhood by Celia Bland
My father was a sidewise Jack,
Miss Congeniality by Maxine Chernoff
Even as an embryo, she made room for "the other guy." Slick and
miss rosie by Lucille Clifton
when I watch you
Missing Is a Stimulant by Jeff Clark
a circuit, bled memory
Mixed Mode by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
The experience of leaving
Mnemosyne by Trumbull Stickney
It's autumn in the country I remember
Mole by Wyatt Prunty
For weeks he’s tunneled his intricate need
Momentum by Catherine Doty
Your friends won’t try to talk you out of the barrel
Mongrel Death Blues by Joshua Weiner
What's that behind my back?
Monkeys by Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman
In another jungle the monkeys fret
Monologue for an Onion by Suji Kwock Kim
I don't mean to make you cry.
Moon Gathering by Eleanor Wilner
And they will gather by the well,
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE DESIGN OF CITIES WILL BE THE DESIGN OF THEIR DECAY by Tessa Rumsey
Where did you grow, before your roots took hold in the garden?
Moreover, the Moon --- by Mina Loy
Face of the skies
Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
Morning News by Marilyn Hacker
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over Wyoming.
Mosquito by Myronn Hardy
She visits me when the lights are out,
Moss Retains Moisture by Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman
Mostly Mick Jagger by Catie Rosemurgy
Thank god he stuck his tongue out.
Mother by Herman de Coninck
What you do with time
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog by Judith Viorst
Mother doesn't want a dog.
Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson
Eternities before the first-born day
Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling
If I were hanged on the highest hill
Mottled Tuesday by John Ashbery
Something was about to go laughably wrong
Mound Digger by Sarah Lindsay
This mound of dirt and the summer are heirs to transfer
Mountain Time [excerpt] by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Up here in the mountains
Mr. Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
Mr. Grumpledump's Song by Shel Silverstein
Everything's wrong,
Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
XXI Dynasty by Thomas James
My body holds its shape. The genius is intact
Muse by Meena Alexander
I was young when you came to me.
Muse, a Lady Cautioning by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
There's fairness in changing blood for septet's
Museum by Glyn Maxwell
Sundays, like a stanza break
Museum Guard by David Hernandez
My condolences to the man dressed
My Aunts by Adam Zagajewski
Always caught up in what they called
My Century by Alan Feldman
The year I was born the atomic bomb went off
My Daughter's First Week by Gennady Aygi
the quietness / where the child is--seems uneven
My Father Is a Retired Magician by Ntozake Shange
my father is a retired magician
my father moved through dooms of love by E. E. Cummings
my father moved through dooms of love
My Father on His Shield by Walt McDonald
Shiny as wax, the cracked veneer Scotch-taped
My Father Told Us Stories. . . by Eula Biss
My father told us stories every night about strange little animals
My Father's Geography by Afaa M. Weaver
I was parading the Côte d'Azur,
My Father's Hat by Mark Irwin
Sunday mornings I would reach
My First Memory (of Librarians) by Nikki Giovanni
This is my first memory
My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker
My friend tree / I sawed you down
My Friends by W. S. Merwin
My friends without shields walk on the target
My Grandma's Love Letters by Hart Crane
There are no stars tonight
My Grandmother's White Cat by Maurice Kilwein Guevara
When fiber-optic, sky blue hair became the fashion, my father began the
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry by James Tate
There's a fortune to be made in just about everything
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
My Hero Bares His Nerves by Dylan Thomas
My hero bares his nerves along my wrist
My House, I Say by Robert Louis Stevenson
My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
My life closed twice before its close (96) by Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close
My Life's Calling by Deborah Digges
My life's calling, setting fires
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often I think of the beautiful town
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My Mojave by Donald Revell
Sha- / Dow,
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer by Mark Strand
When the moon appears
My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
My mother would be a falconress,
My Parents Have Come Home Laughing by Mark Jarman
My parents have come home laughing
My Philosophy of Life by John Ashbery
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson
I now think love is rather deaf, than blind,
My Psychic by James Kimbrell
has a giant hand
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me
My Shoes by Charles Simic
Shoes, secret face of my inner life
My Sin by M. L. Liebler
He came to me
My Sister's Funeral by Gerald Stern
Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it
My Soul by Ember Ward
Sometimes / When I feel like I'm going to fall apart
My Star by Robert Browning
All, that I know
My Wife by Robert Louis Stevenson
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true