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a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
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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
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Rethinking Charleston Receipts Like other books about Lowcountry life in that era, the pages are peppered with Gullah Geechee verses, the linguistic heritage of the West African descendants who live in the region, along with English interpretations.—
Adrian Miller,
Southern Living,
28 Oct. 2025
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As for Guggenheim, he is best known for being one the architects of the Arrow-verse and has been on a roll of late, selling three pilots in the past six months.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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On the way out, as a staffer closed down the merch stand and the lobby bars’ slushy machines quietly hummed, Donegan brought up the lyric about caviar dreams.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Arriaga’s version simultaneously pays graceful homage to Fender’s original, while, like the rest of the songs on the album, Arriaga stamps every lyric and message with his unique artistry and warm, welcoming vocal tone.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
3 Nov. 2025
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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 4 Nov. 2025.
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