poem
- noun
- /poʊəm/
- The author has written a beautiful poem that captures the essence of love.
- write poems
- read poems
- book of poems
I I I think that when a poem can move.
- I I I think that when a poem can move.
- Then you get Joyce Kilmer's poem, The Tree.
- That at some point the poems don't come anymore.
- And then the poem reads The big wave brought you.
- And I was like writing a poem on demand.
- And so that's the basis of this poem.
- So a few of my songs were started from poems.
- The second one is the real, like, party poem.
- And then I, I thought, let me read my old breakup poems.
- So it figures in this poem, the reveal.
- And that kind of those poems are throughout decades.
- And we'll get to your poem in in a few minutes.
- Movies are short stories and and short films are like poems.
Examples
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The poem I wrote for the brothers... about the sun and the creatures of the Earth... please sing it to me.
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When I want to write a poem, I sit and struggle, and nothing comes of it.
Academic text (2011) -
B is a simple poem from a mother to her daughter.
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The bridge is Crane's great poem about America.
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Longfellow used some of the money he made writing poems to buy men, women, and children their freedom.
Academic text (2011) -
We haven't studied any of her poems in school yet, but we will.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is a poem by Corky Gonzales.
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Beyond that, elementary school introduced me to a whole world of poems that rhymed with cat and bat.
Academic text (2011) -
It's a poem.
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In class, we analyzed a famous poem about nature written by Wordsworth.
Synonyms
Writing with a regular rhythm that often rhymes
A short poem that expresses personal feelings in a songlike way
A short poem with matching end sounds
A short poem of 14 lines with a set rhyme pattern often about love
A poem that praises someone or something in a formal, musical way
A long poem that tells the adventures and deeds of a famous hero
A group of four lines in a poem often with a rhyme
A short piece of writing in ordinary sentences that reads like a poem
A short poem that shows personal feelings, often like a song
A poem made of pairs of rhyming lines that often talks about love or loss
A poem in which the words form a picture of the subject
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Etymology
The word poem comes from an old Greek word poema meaning 'something made', from poiein 'to make'. So a poem is a carefully 'made' piece of writing that uses rhythm and style to express feelings and ideas, and it shares the same root as poet.