1
: a composition in verse
2
: something suggesting a poem (as in expressiveness, lyricism, or formal grace)
The house we stayed in … was itself a poem.—
H. J. Laski
H. J. LaskiExamples of poem in a Sentence
He wrote a poem about his parents.
your assignment is to write two poems about springtime
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About 11 years after Burns first wrote the poem to his friend, the song collector George Thomson set it to music.
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Saleen Martin, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
Literature lovers will want to step inside Dove Cottage, where William Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy, his wife, and their three children, while writing some of his most notable poems.
—Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
This volume of Kemp’s translations includes my favorite Darío poems; their rhymes are lost, but their dreamlike, hypnotic quality is preserved.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
One night, the poet Chase Twichell read a suite of poems.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
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“Poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poem. Accessed 29 Dec. 2025.
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