In the third stanza the repetition of "relishing" and "that once" not only place emphasis on these points, but create a building momentum towards the end of the poem. The description of "scuffling ...

So a poem is an easy way to share those feelings. It's often organized into lines or stanzas, I'm gonna show you what that looks like. It may use rhyme or rhythm. I'm gonna show you that today, too.

It’s a poem about an artist — a woman embroidering an image of tigers in the jungle. Over the course of three stanzas, our attention shifts between the tigers and glimpses of the life and ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

One of my dearest college professors, a trim man with a gentle face, elegant attire and the enviable posture of a gentleman — or a soldier — once said, “The only people who understand poetry ...