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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
Victoria Chang uses this formal tool in her book Obit, a collection of poems written in the wake of her mother’s death.
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Patrick Dundon, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2026
Voiced by four actors, the performance comprises 50 short poems meditating on life in World War II death camps.
—Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Read two poems by Leigh Lucas from the collection, Splashed Things.
—Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
The project, which is a part of Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, involved hundreds of community members writing poems as a way to share their experiences with gun violence.
—Raymond Strickland, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
In one scene, people who have known Fuentes throughout the years gather at the library to read their poems.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
His poems employ numbers significant to Dine (Navajo) thought and ways of life.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
There’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of poems in my journals that come right after a sad story or a happy story or whatever.
—Jessica Firger, SELF, 23 Mar. 2026
His story is written into the San Jose Unified School District curriculum, where students write poems about his life and work.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
Patrick Dundon, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2026
Voiced by four actors, the performance comprises 50 short poems meditating on life in World War II death camps.
—Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Read two poems by Leigh Lucas from the collection, Splashed Things.
—Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
The project, which is a part of Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, involved hundreds of community members writing poems as a way to share their experiences with gun violence.
—Raymond Strickland, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
In one scene, people who have known Fuentes throughout the years gather at the library to read their poems.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
His poems employ numbers significant to Dine (Navajo) thought and ways of life.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
There’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of poems in my journals that come right after a sad story or a happy story or whatever.
—Jessica Firger, SELF, 23 Mar. 2026
His story is written into the San Jose Unified School District curriculum, where students write poems about his life and work.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poems
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Rap artists shouted out Bambaataa in their verses.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2026
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Some of the guest verses feel superfluous on otherwise glorious, upbeat cosmic funk.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
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But those are two very different movies, and there aren’t enough achingly tender John Prine songs in the world to paper over the gap between them.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2026
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Who would have thought a suite of songs that cover being annoyed at TV chef Jamie Oliver and some rich Tesla driver moving into an old flame’s flat would be so comprehensively devastating?—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Newman often seems to be reciting his lyrics, even incanting them, reverent and repetitive.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
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At times, that means dense lyrics that almost feel unwieldy, which Taub cleverly addresses early on.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
8 Apr. 2026
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If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.—
Nicole Fraenkel,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Poems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poems. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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