as in verse
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
your assignment is to write two poems about springtime
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Recent Examples of poem
There in the dark, a poem by my grandmother pops into my head.
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Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Members of a youth orchestra outside of Kyiv know the new sounds of their country well and are working on a sonic poem about it.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Advertisement At the debriefing after a major event, maybe the bedside nurse can share a poem that gives them solace or strength.
—K.j.s. “sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
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Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Members of a youth orchestra outside of Kyiv know the new sounds of their country well and are working on a sonic poem about it.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Advertisement At the debriefing after a major event, maybe the bedside nurse can share a poem that gives them solace or strength.
—K.j.s. “sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poem
Noun
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But a few months ago, different types of verse began flowing out of her.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Have another look at the opening verses of the Aeneid (especially Book I, line 28).—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The lyrics can confuse you, too.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, guys have more than rap lyrics on their mind and soon share their feelings on climate change and the war in Ukraine.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Seconds later, Siwa was back to performing a song about her haters, wearing a homemade jersey bedazzled with her own name.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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The song combines love at first sight, drugs, and death.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2025
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poem. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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