This site exists for one purpose only: to help dispel the ugly and absolutely untrue myth that poetry is boring. Granted, a lot of poetry is boring, but you won't find it here. At Your Daily Poem, you'll find poetry that is touching, funny, provocative, inspiring, uplifting, and surprising. It may punch you in the gut, it may bring tears to your eyes, it may make you laugh out loud, but it most assuredly will not bore you! Visit our home page every day to see a different poem.

Poetry on YDP—by poets living and long dead, famous to completely unknown--is specially selected for accessibility and appeal. Thanks so much for visiting—and remember: a poem a day keeps the doldrums away!

Pat Hale is happily retired from a career in telecommunications. Her publications include Seeing Them with My Eyes Closed, Composition and Flight,  and, most recently, Dry Lightning, a chapbook covering her years doing honeybee disease research in Laramie, Wyoming. Pat's prize-winning poems appear in a variety of journals and have been anthologized in Forgotten Women, Waking Up to the Earth, and elsewhere.  She lives in Connecticut in a little house surrounded by tall trees, serves on the board of directors for the Riverwood Poetry Series, and is an associate editor of Connecticut River Review.