Poetry and Prose: A Poetry Blog
Through Poetry
“Oh, there isn’t any, when you put it that way,” gasped Anne, rather as if somebody had thrown cold water over her. “I suppose that’s how it looks in prose. But it’s very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it’s nicer…” Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed…”to look at it through poetry.”
Anne of Avonlea, L. M. Montgomery
A blog on Poetry and Prose.
Here is looking at it all
through poetry, through rhyme
and the shine of unshed tears and
unsaid words, birds of fleeting emotions flitting by, just as alive
as the everpresent eagle.
For words might lie, shy away from reality, try, try harder
words might cry tears of desperate ink,
try again
but words never die.
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Poems About September: The First Breeze of Autumn Is Here
The first breeze of Autumn…it’s here now. The leaves turning orange as summer waves goodbye to us. Many writers, poets, artists have tried to re-create the September they saw onto the paper or canvas in front of them. I’m just trying to re-create it too. On your phone screen. Let’s…
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How to Live in the Now? a Journaling Prompt
In this weird little rant, I write about how to live in the now. I also suggest you some journaling prompts to help you find yourself. I went from worrying constantly about the future of being so laser-focused on the present moment in life that nothing else seemed to matter…
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Poems About Rain—13 Heartfelt Works By Classic Poets
Have you ever looked out the window at a pouring sky and found absolution? The leaves turn unimaginably bright, the warm scent of fresh soil, the cool breeze of wandering clouds—it all seems otherworldly on a rainy day. There is peace in this scene, there is melancholy, there is joy…
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Poems About Finding Yourself: How I Discovered Myself in These Verses
Do you know yourself? Have you found yourself? Obviously, there are moments in ordinary days when out of nowhere we begin feeling lost, disconnected from our own reality. Read some highly introspective poems about finding yourself below, verses that speak to the soul with courage, convince us to come out…
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Embracing the Summer Aesthetic Vibes: Poems and Prompts
We’re halfway into the year and halfway into summer! I recently wrote a post 31 Poems about Summer to Read this July, and am honestly stunned by how people are loving it! That has got me to believe that everyone loves summer—its warm days, youth, beauty, freedom, luxury and wanderlust.…
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Magical Poems about Growing Up
Magical Poems About Growing Up and Growing Older. Growing up is that one bit that doesn’t ever change in our lives. When we’re five, we’re scared of growing up. When we’re fifty, we’re scared of growing old. Somewhere along, the feeling gets lost in the haze of it, actually. You…
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Poems about Courage: 8 Reminders to Take the Jump Now
But you gotta have courage, you know? You can’t just sit and stare at the mountain forever, you can’t just hope forever that someone comes to save you from something you need to conquer yourself. You can’t just hope someone gives you the courage to jump. No. No, you have…
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Magical Poems About May: Capture the Surrealism
Hellow! May is (almost) here! And I’ve got my birthday coming up, maybe that’s why I’m always so excited about this particular month. In the honor of it being my birthday month, I’ve compiled this collection of all poems about May that remind you of the freedom, love, laughter, beauty,…
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Poems About Girlhood: From Plath to Dickinson
There are girls. Then there’s their girlhood. And then, there are poems about girlhood. Somehow, even after girls grow up and become women, these poems stay with them, just like the thought of girlhood does, like the nostalgia, the memories, the happy dreams and the summer days and the muddy…
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“21 Day Poem-Reading Spree” Sign up For the Free Newsletter
A poem a day keeps the mundanity away. I made that up, yeah. But here’s me introducing a poem-reading challenge to you. Because reading a poem every single day of your life is actually going to take you to places anything else might not. Why? Because this history has shown…
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31 Poems About Summer to Read this July: Classic and Classy
Hello! Summer’s gonna be here soon, and heaven knows I’m sick of winter (partly because I caught cold some, four times last season). To welcome this amazing, uplifting, hopeful-looking summer of 2025 I’ve compiled this post of 31 poems about summer that celebrate the beautiful, lush early mornings, windy evenings…
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Letters in Pride and Prejudice: A Short Essay
Letters are important in the world of Pride and Prejudice, the 1813 novel by Jane Austen. Letters start everything and letters end everything. Letters seems like important, private conversations. Letters in Pride and Prejudice do more than just convey words—they unravel secrets and expose someone’s vulnerabilities, and keep the story’s…