Poetic Medicine

By Jeremy Rutledge  If you want to pray for Houston you have to pray in her way pray like Beyoncé when she was at HSPVA or Billy a...

By Robert Bly It started about noon. On top of Mount Batte, We were all exclaiming. Someone had a cardboard And a pin, and we all ...

By William Stafford When we first moved here, pulled the trees in around us, curled our backs to the wind, no one had ever hit the moon...

By William Shakespeare  My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then...

By Stephen Colbert Give me your wealthy, your rich, your huddled MBAs yearning to be tax-free. Send these, the English-speaking, fully in...

By William Marr Built at the border of our hearts this wall of the 21st century will grow  drawing nourishment from all dark corners...

By Adrienne Rich Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of reme...

By Anne Sexton It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a ...

By Naomi Shihab Nye Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum: divide becomes multiply so he’d wrestle his parents who defy what he ins...

By Nikki Grimes Dream killers daily stalk the streets of you and I  travel, trying to trip us up, but we can give them the slip. I hav...

By Countee Cullen I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold; Where long will cling the lips of the...

By Octavio De La Paz 1. Did your child lose acquired speech? A fount and then silence. A none. An ellipse between — his breath throug...

By Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,  Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe an...

By Adam Stone I’m not really a summer guy I like winter I like winter because I like snow I like snow like I like my men: Deep ...

By Brenna Richart I hate being a mother. When I saw the plus sign in the window of the pregnancy test I started laughing. Of course thi...

By a Planned Parenthood staffer Dear American "Health Care" Act, I hate the way you don't represent me and the way you st...

By Elena Georgiou Monday Sitting in McDonalds on 103rd & 3rd I notice a couple staring at me and hear them say Indian. They walk ...

After Neruda By Dean Rader America I do not call your name without hope not even when you lay your knife against my throat or lace my ...

By Pablo Neruda When I hold the sword against the heart, when I live with the faulty roof in the soul, when one of your new days pierce...

By Dan Bern On the 19th day of April In 1995 There was the worst car bombing Near 200 people died In Oklahoma City On Wednesday 9:00 They ...