poems

here are some of my favorite poems in the whole world! scroll for more :) I like good love poems and body poems and poems with extensive ampersand use and have a preference for the effect of spontaneity and authenticity that i am sure biases me towards freeform poems. lately I am on the lookout for poems that play with different languages. I only know Chinese, so I've been looking for that.

Scheherazade by Richard Siken
Meanwhile by Richard Siken
Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love by June Jordan
On Seeing and Being Seen by Ama Codjoe
Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong
Threshold by Ocean Vuong
Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out by Richard Siken
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
Little Song by Chen Chen
Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air by Ada Limón
The Yoke by Frank Bidart
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Dysphoria by Oliver Baez Bendorf
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II] by Adrienne Rich
I Ask That I Do Not Die by Ilya Kaminsky
The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel
Pattern by Garous Abdolmalekian, trans. Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh
This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
Lana Turner has Collapsed by Frank O'Hara
Animals by Frank O'Hara
Summer by Chen Chen
我疼你 by Chen Chen (you'll have to scroll a bit and the Chinese etymological information is imperfect but on something I've thought about a bit myself and still very moving I think

I am planning on putting poems I wrote here but first I need to figure out a format!

Poems ⋆˚⟡˖