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poems

noun

plural of poem
as in verses
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect your assignment is to write two poems about springtime

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Recent Examples of poems The report included evidence of creepy poems and consistent messages to both employees, neither of whom are named in the panel's findings. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 In a voice at once biting and contemplative, eerie and funny, Kasischke crafts poems in which nothing is ever stable or resolved. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Text The Psalms are sacred songs, or sacred poems, originally written in Hebrew and likely meant to be sung. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026 Cowin has also spliced together photographs of disparate subjects — people, places and things — on broad horizontal panels that suggest narrative progression but instead register as evocative panoramic poems. — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The poet Jack Spicer wrote that poems cannot live alone any more than people can. — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 22 Aug. 2026 Each program explores specific themes by weaving a variety of stories, poems, and sometimes music together. — Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 In her poems, Marson gives voice to many moods of the Jamaican diaspora. — Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 Lawrence Lewitinn is building an AI-native archive for his great-uncle’s works, which will systematize the artist’s sketches, pigment formulas, poems and color diagrams, along with his notes on color, perception and theory. — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poems
  1. verses
  2. songs
  3. lyrics
  4. sonnets
Noun
  • This strophic song in five verses conveys the journeyman’s joyfulness through a jaunty, tuneful vocal line over a steadily striding piano accompaniment.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The range from the verses being super low, the chorus being fully belted out nonstop on the same note, and then that breaking point of the high part.
    — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of verses
Noun
  • A student there named John-Michael Tebelak wrote the book for the show as his master’s thesis, with original songs provided by his friends.
    — Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • But there was another Olivia Benson on the screen that night … the cat Olivia Benson, whom the pop superstar — who boasts 277 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 to date — named after the beloved character played by Hargitay for 27 seasons and counting.
    — Anna Chan, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of songs
Noun
  • For more than 50 years, with a few breaks in between, Squeeze has been making memorable tunes by marrying infectious pop melodies with sophisticated and literate lyrics, often about the complexity of relationships.
    — Craig Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Sunday Night Football’s first game — and the first teams that Underwood shouted out in her weekly changing lyrics — was between NFC East rivals Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of lyrics
Noun
  • People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
  • In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Definition of sonnets

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