But, if you're curious about limerick poems — maybe even considering how to write your own, we're sharing some of our ...

it doesn't matter – but please cap your poems at 10 lines. (Click here to read examples of ekphrastic poems – and see the paintings that inspired them.) Sponsor Message Alexander will take ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

On the contrary, poems often wrongly described as "occasional" -- Yeats' "Easter, 1916" and Auden's "September 1, 1939" are two prominent examples -- were written after the occasion they ...

Compose your own poetry. Start with a subject you’re enthusiastic ... Here are a few striking samples that highlight the raw emotional depth and passion infusing the genre.

The temporary nature of the art gets taken pretty far with Poetry Camera. Another sample poem. Image Credits: Poetry Camera “We don’t save any of the images or the poems digitally. There are a ...

Poetry is older than writing ... Our ears hear four heavy beats. As these examples suggest, there’s a lot of variation within the basic pattern — longer or shorter lines, snappy or languorous ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... This is not a very common form in English; the best-known examples come from the Renaissance — from Donne, the Elizabethan sonneteer Sir ...

cited a number of studies (some with small sample sizes, admittedly) showing various health benefits from reading, writing and listening to poetry and creative nonfiction. They have been shown to ...