On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, rap battles are performed to the accompaniment of lute and fiddle. The head-to-head ...

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An ode is a celebratory poem, meant to express gratitude and appreciation for some idealized notion, whether it be love, beauty, or a special hero. With roots in ancient Greece and Rome ...

Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you?

As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics into my diary. I treasured the lyrics found on thin crinkly paper ...

But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire. So, if you’re looking for the perfect words for your loved one this year, why not share one of these poems ...

But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire. So, if you’re looking for the perfect words for your loved one this year, why not share one of these poems, which attempt ...

The cascading rhymes and trippy images conjure a kind of aesthetic rapture that’s not so different from falling in love. With the poem or the poet? Is it always so easy to tell? Diane Seuss’s ...

"Maybe religion’s not so bad," he concluded with yet another dismal rhyme, "To keep you ... last November's poem was supposed to be "about love." It speaks of galactic blazes and uses the ...