How to Use poem in a Sentence

poem

noun
  • He wrote a poem about his parents.
  • Along with the poem will be all the names submitted by those from around the world.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There were a whole bunch of poems that were just a riot.
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The first stanzas of the poem describe the remaining echoes of his late wife.
    Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • This poem ached to swoon at the skill and ardor laid at her passerine feet.
    Laura Reece Hogan, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • That just means good stories for the most part, or good poems, and having fun in the classroom with the books.
    Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There’s actually a line from a Lucille Clifton poem that opens the script and sets the tone of the film.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Change things up at bedtime and read one of these quirky poems rather than a story.
    Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2023
  • As the video continued, a spoken poem played in the background.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The program features poems that have been set to music.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2023
  • Reading her poems is like being led by the hand through the streets of Los Angeles.
    Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Don’t get stuck in the traditional ideas and structures of a poem.
    Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
  • Yet Fiennes, with his pale glare, channels the poem like a human mood ring.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The poem was written by an aunt and two cousins of a young woman named Theresa Insana.
    Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 6 May 2023
  • Maybe today a smart kid might quit school To teach my computer how to write my poem.
    Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • If a play or poem — or book, as in Voskanian’s case — emerges from her classes, that’s great.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But the poem is a tribute to persevering in the face of hardship and criticism, and Biles is no stranger to that.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Yet as the poem reveals its contours, love reveals its, too.
    Bhanu Kapil Anne Boyer, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The poet then wrote a poem for each of them, which Charity and Joey read to one another.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • It’s thought to be the only poem Chandler attempted as an adult.
    Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The poems lament gentrification, meditate on nature, and find joy in the gross and the weird.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Rhyming poems, like Reed’s, have fallen out of style this century in favor of free verse.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Then the poem writing, which occurs in his second chapter, becomes a sort of refrain in a way.
    Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • The girl takes the tin and the poem’s lyrics are revealed later in subtitles over a simple, haunting piano tune.
    Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Better for the echo of Brahms to fill Funkhouser’s hallway than for the hallway to remain silent, and better for her poem to take the place of an empty page.
    Erica Funkhouser, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
  • This poem is in conversation with Agnes Martin’s work of the same title.
    Victoria Chang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2024
  • One is a relatively simple story, more of a poem than a plot.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Thich Nhat Hanh published more than 100 books, including poetry, and many of his poems will be set to music for the event.
    Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Short said Brown’s children and godchildren asked him to read a poem to remember him.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • That poem was published in 1808, just three years before the Luddite rebellion took shape.
    Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023

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