The best things arrive
when you're not looking.

Sometimes: A Poem Arrives

The Garden

What wondrous life is this I lead!

Ripe apples drop about my head;

The luscious clusters of the vine

Upon my mouth do crush their wine...

— Andrew Marvell

Poetry: when conditions align.

Sometimes reader screen showing The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Sometimes archive in dark mode listing saved poems by Wordsworth, Whitman, Frost, and Poe.
Sometimes reveal screen showing the poem line This world of dew is a world of dew.
Sometimes dark reader screen showing Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie.

How it works

Poems arrive with
the hour and the season

No feeds. When a forecast is available, the weather helps choose the poem. Each arrival remembers the conditions it arrived in.

Widgets

Poetry on your home screen and lock screen.

Notifications

Beautiful alerts when poetry arrives for you.

Favorites

Save verses that move you. Build your anthology.

Share

Send poems to friends as image cards.

Offline

Everything on your device. Poems need no internet; only the weather note does.

Private App

No app tracking. No accounts. Just you and poems.

Availability

Built for iPhone and iPad. Also runs on Apple‑silicon Macs (iPad app).

Compatibility

Requires iOS / iPadOS 17 or later.

Weather

Optional area selection. No location permission required.

Let poetry find you

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