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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 this poetry collection, Vilariño strips poetry to its essence—distilling love, loss, and the inexorable passage of time into spare yet searing verses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Some people say these verses hold women back.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
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According to the lawsuit, the pair filed notices of termination in 2022 to reclaim the rights to those songs, which were released by its subsidiaries Next Plateau London Records.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
9 Nov. 2025
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Using his falsetto vocals, this was one of the songs of the summer, blending '80s synth-pop and new wave, with touches of '70s-era funk and blues.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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Harbour also recently made headlines following the release of estranged wife Lily Allen's latest album, West End Girl, which contained references many interpreted as pointing toward alleged unfaithfulness on Harbour's part, though the actor isn't explicitly named in the lyrics.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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Three songwriters from each category will be selected, celebrating artists whose lyrics and melodies have made a lasting impact on music.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Nov. 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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