Here are a few cat poems to help you through your grief: Who shall tell the lady's grief When her Cat was past relief? Who ...

Readers who enjoy reflective poems will like this one. Where to read: You can read “The Bells” at All Poetry. Poe’s unnerving Ligeia is a grotesque short story that blurs the lines between ...

These short Easter poems reflect a Christian perspective on the holiday, making them great options for children's church and ...

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

D.N. “This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” poem. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

Though Poe lived a nomadic lifestyle in the 1800s, he settled in the Bronx with his ailing wife, Virginia, in 1846. With ...