Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there ...

Dame life, tho' fiction out may trick her, And in paste gems and frippery deck her; Oh! flickering, feeble, and unsicker I've found her still, Ay wavering like the willow wicker, 'Tween good and ill.

Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.