Welcome to Poetry Verse
The poetry website where you'll find the most beautiful poems written by the best poets from all around the world.
Poems about love, poems about life... and poems about everything else.
Also, you can find short stories collected from all corners of the world, by many traditions, cultures, and religions.
Stories to inspire, stories to motivate, stories to make you think.
Most Popular Poems
A Servant To Servants
by Robert Frost
I didn’t make you know how glad I was
To have you come and camp here on our land.
I promised myself to get down some day
And see the way you lived, but I don’t know!
With a houseful of hungry men to feed
I guess you’d find…. It seems to me
I can’t express my feelings any more
Than I can raise my voice or want to lift
My hand (oh, I can lift it when I have to).
Did ever you feel so? I hope you never.
It’s got so I don’t even know for sure
Whether I
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the crunch
by Charles Bukowski
Too much
too little
or not enough.
Too fat
too thin
or nobody.
Laughter
or tears
or immaculate
non-concern.
Haters
lovers.
Armies running through streets of blood
waving wine bottles
bayoneting and fucking virgins.
Or an old guy
in a cheap room
with a photograph
of Marilyn Monroe.
Many old guys
in cheap rooms
without any photographs at all.
Many old women
rubbing rosaries
when they'd prefer
to be rubbing cocks.
There is a loneliness in this world
so great
that you can see it
in the slow
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don't go back to sleep
by Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
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