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a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
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Recent Examples of poems
And around the same time, the pumpkin became a symbol of old-fashioned ways of living — a touchstone in poems and genre paintings as urbanization took hold in the United States.
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
His name graces snippets of poems and songs graffitied in alleyways.
—Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
When Oxford High School was the site of mass shooting in 2021, her students wrote poems for students there.
—John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
All three poems featured in The Dial touch on the endangerment of the Welsh language.
—Robert Minhinnick, The Dial, 2 Oct. 2025
Roger Latham of Fort Worth has written many poems in his life.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
—Audiofile Magazine
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Her tapestries have the intimacy of Sylvia Plath poems crossed with forensic police reports.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
The Harlem Renaissance was filled with poetry and song—and with performance, as enshrined in Greaves’s footage which features many spontaneous, thrillingly theatrical recitations of poems by Bontemps, Hughes, Cullen, and McKay.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
His name graces snippets of poems and songs graffitied in alleyways.
—Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
When Oxford High School was the site of mass shooting in 2021, her students wrote poems for students there.
—John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
All three poems featured in The Dial touch on the endangerment of the Welsh language.
—Robert Minhinnick, The Dial, 2 Oct. 2025
Roger Latham of Fort Worth has written many poems in his life.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
—Audiofile Magazine
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Her tapestries have the intimacy of Sylvia Plath poems crossed with forensic police reports.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
The Harlem Renaissance was filled with poetry and song—and with performance, as enshrined in Greaves’s footage which features many spontaneous, thrillingly theatrical recitations of poems by Bontemps, Hughes, Cullen, and McKay.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poems
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Throughout the song’s undulating, fluid melodies, Kali and Mariah trade verses about the importance of loyalty in love, all while maintaining their own otherworldly vocals in the process.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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In those times, young people who self-described as gangsters fought for territory, and one of their subversive acts was to tag the walls of the city with the verses of cumbia songs.—
Karla Gachet,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
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Why does one hard working fan have to buy seven different versions of an album instead of just having all of the songs be on one complete album?—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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One of Lipa’s most significant attributes is the husky tone of her mezzo-soprano, lending a gritty roughness to her songs’ pop polish.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2025
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Some of Swift's best work comes from her self-deprecating moods, and this track, with its self-loathing but super catchy lyrics, is no exception.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
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As for the lyrics that Swifties are connecting to Kelce and Nicole's tense interaction?—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
4 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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The captive—and Cervantes—found something moving in those sonnets, something that gave them the will to hope.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Poems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poems. Accessed 11 Oct. 2025.
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