Penny's Poetry Blog

9/11 We adore images, we like the spectacle Of speed and size, the working of prodigious Systems. So on television we watched The ter...

The History of the Airplane And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented something that could make peace on earth when th...

  T h e P e n n y B l o g 's poem for September 11:  World Trade Center , by Julia Vinograd I am an old woman in a black dress Kneelin...

School His seat was by a window. So he dreamed. How could he study while the sunlight gleamed In small, sweet shapes, like wild things ...

The School Boy I love to rise in a summer morn,       When the birds sing on every tree; The distant huntsman winds his horn,      And...

T h e P e n n y B l o g 's featured  poem for September 2026: The Names , by Billy Collins [...] I started with A, with Ackerman, as i...

    Penny's Top 20 The most-visited poems on   T h e P e n n y B l o g in August 2026:   1.  Afterglow , George J. Dance   2.  4 poem...