We’ve rounded up 40 moving poems to read at a funeral, share with someone who has lost a loved one or help you mourn. Some of ...

I’d named him Dagr Nott, old Norse for “day and night” but for short, I called him “Dag”. It was a silly little joke to let ...

For this would we give thanks. A simple, short poem with a fixed refrain, Hattie Howard’s “Let Us Give Thanks” gets to the core of what makes this holiday very special: good company ...

Watch popular children's rhyme 'Aidu Cikka Varnaranjita Batukoligalu' in Kannada. For popular children rhymes, kids songs, ...

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 ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Short track is form of speed skating contested around an international-sized hockey rink, 111 meters in length. Athletes race simultaneously, jockeying for position for the duration of the multi-lap ...

Services held every 11 November to mourn British soldiers killed in First World War and all subsequent conflicts ...

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