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!

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!

Sarah Sadie is the author of five collections of poetry and winner of a Pushcart Prize. She lives perched between two rivers, next door to the Baraboo Ridge in Wisconsin, where she grows tomatoes in buckets, makes homemade ice cream, writes poems, and writes "An Inviting Space" on Substack.