And while grief softens over time, you always miss your mom. These poems about the loss of a mother express how it feels when ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, "Decide to Forgive." I was struck by how timely it is. The message is much ...

This poem is also the opposite of everything I ... willing to defer gratification until a more suitable time. This person is a master of compartmentalization. Each of the first four lines ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Reality can be so excruciating. This collection could be just what the poetry doctor prescribed. By the way, I had a fabulous time last week during my talk at Bethany Village. About seventy ...

Do this in bits, pausing every few words, so that you don't give yourself too much to remember each time. Keep doing this until you can say all of the lines in the first part of the poem without ...

It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem. It is not exactly a happy one, either. Instead, it celebrates commitment to devotion: “Love’s not time’s fool,” perhaps its most famous phrase ...

He even looks at how the specific words the author chooses for the poem can change how the audience interpret it. Allow time for the children to respond with their likes and any dislikes as well ...

Princess Aiko, the only daughter of the emperor and empress, attended the poetry reading for the first time and presented a composition about her thoughts last spring upon graduating from ...