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Friends, Family, and Finding Your Place
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Friends, Family, and Finding Your Place

Poems about family, friendship, community, and the meaning of home.

147 poems

A Covered Bridge in Littleton, New Hampshire
Stephanie Burt
A Far Country
Leslie Pinckney Hill
A Locked House
W.D. Snodgrass
A Mojave Lullaby
Bertrand N. O. Walker
A Prayer
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
A Song of a Navajo Weaver
Bertrand N. O. Walker
A Talk with My Grandson, Age Six
Wanda Coleman
A Time to Talk
Robert Frost
A Wyandot Cradle Song
Bertrand N. O. Walker
Abandoned Farmhouse
Ted Kooser
About Standing (in Kinship)
Kimberly Blaeser
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Vachel Lindsay
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