
15 Beautiful Birthday Poems
Whenever I ask my students what their favorite month, they always always choose the month of their birthday. But I can’t really blame them. October is my favorite time of year for exactly the same reason. Some people love them. Other people hate them. But we all have them. Whether looking for a way to reflect on your birthday or finding some words to celebrate a lover or friend, here are 15 birthday poems. From thoughtful and sweet to funny and sarcastic, I hope you find the birthday poems you’re looking for this year.
birth-day by Lucille Clifton
Excerpt: today we are possible. the morning, green and laundry-sweet, opens itself and we enter blind and mewling.irreplaceable by rupi kaur
Birthday Lights by Calef Brown
Excerpt: Light bulbs on a birthday cake. What a difference that would make! Plug it in and make a wish, then relax and flip a switch!A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
Excerpt: My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water’d shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.The Party by Jason Shinder
Excerpt: And that’s how it is; everyone standing up from the big silence of the table with their glasses of certainty and plates of forgiveness and walking into the purple kitchen; everyone leaning away from the gas stove Marie blows on at the very edge of the breaking blue-orange-lunging- forward flames to warm another pot of coffee, while the dishes pile up in the sink, perfect as a pyramid. Aaah, says Donna, closing her eyes,Birthday by Andrea Gibson
We Are All the Same by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Excerpt: We are all the same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart Hear them speak of lost friendsBirthday by Sukasah Syahdan
At Twenty-Eight by Amy Fleury
Excerpt: It seems I get by on more luck than sense, not the kind brought on by knuckle to wood, breath on dice, or pennies found in the mud. I shimmy and slip by on pure fool chance.30th Birthday by Alice Notley
Excerpt:
May I never be afraid
especially of myself
but
Muhammed Ali are you telling
the truth?
Well you’re being true aren’t you and
you talk so wonderfully in your body
that protects you with physique of voice
raps within dance
May I never be afraid