Our goal was to post one poem per day. These bonus poems are additional submissions that we received.
On being told I don't speak like a Black Person by Allison Joseph
Emphasize the “h,” you hignorant ass,
was what my mother was told
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Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
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The Jaguar by Ted Hughes
The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun.
The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut
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Mouse's Nest by John Clare
I found a ball of grass among the hay
And proged it as I passed and went away.
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Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
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