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a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
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Recent Examples of poems
Mayer resurfaces throughout Lasky’s Memory—regarding her photographs or poems or a pithy quotation—while Lasky considers the memories of her own life.
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Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Her father loved reading poems aloud to the family.
—Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Your identity as a Black man is present in a lot of your poems.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Online in 2016 about how Wade treats her during the February holiday, adding that his poems are among the best gifts she's received.
—Lydia Price, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Later, while Liv took to writing poems in her journal, beginning to struggle with addiction in her teens, Grace found solace at the dojo, first practicing jiu jitsu and then kickboxing.
—Kate Branch, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2025
The anthology’s 21 pieces, including a couple of poems, narrate stories set in WW II that resonate with history, yet are elaborated by the intervention of fantastical forces.
—Michael Williams, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Her father loved reading poems aloud to the family.
—Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Your identity as a Black man is present in a lot of your poems.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Online in 2016 about how Wade treats her during the February holiday, adding that his poems are among the best gifts she's received.
—Lydia Price, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Later, while Liv took to writing poems in her journal, beginning to struggle with addiction in her teens, Grace found solace at the dojo, first practicing jiu jitsu and then kickboxing.
—Kate Branch, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2025
The anthology’s 21 pieces, including a couple of poems, narrate stories set in WW II that resonate with history, yet are elaborated by the intervention of fantastical forces.
—Michael Williams, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poems
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In Sor Juana’s verses, the vicereine is a cruel creature who never reciprocates.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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But the key reason Nebraska was a hit with staying power is that people heard themselves in these songs.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
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While filming, Violette has to apply the makeup in stages, adding in songs, transitions and lip-synching to trending audios and songs.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
1 Nov. 2025
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However, this is not the first time Urban has altered lyrics on stage for his duet partner.—
Sarah Sotoodeh,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Someone keeps calling her on the landline and leaving voice messages and texting her mobile phone—bits of song lyrics, compliments, and emoticons.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 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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