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!

Christopher Roe (1943 - 2018) was an artist, author, and poet. He studied art and graphic design at the school of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, spent a semester at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, and spent four years at the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth. After an award-winning forty-four year career in advertising as an art director and graphic designer, Chris retired to pursue art and writing full time. He published a memoir and multiple volumes of poetry, and his paintings are in private collections across the United States, Canada, and Europe.