Ahead, we’ve rounded up 30 poems about life ... Whitman opens his American epic with the three-line excerpt above (the full ...

This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated ... you find a common theme or through line. Or better yet, head to your local poetry reading. Shihan Van Clief and ...

have specific rules. An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, vertically. A limerick is a funny five-line poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA. A haiku has three ...

Just three lines long, five syllables, then seven, then five, like this: 'An old silent pondA frog jumps into the pondSplash. Silence again.' It may seem like poems have lots of rule, but they don ...