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!

An English professor who became a lawyer, until he retired, David Clowers served two masters, actively practicing law while teaching poetry and reading theatre classes in a Learning in Retirement program. For nine years, he lived on thirty acres of woods in Door County, Wisconsin in a small, self-built cabin--without electricity or running water. (He lasted three times longer thanThoreau!) Now in retirement, David lives in a comfortable condo on the shore of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, where he writes every day. David's poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' Pandemic Poetry Collection. After receiving several honorable mentions in WFOP's annual contests, he finally won first place as an "Emerging Poet" the same year he turned 80.