'You look as though you wished the place in Hell,' My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well, I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said.

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

April 12, 2006— -- Poetry was an integral part of the culture of the Kennedy family. Caroline Kennedy remembers that she and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr. would copy classic poems for gifts for ...

The poet Grace Nichols introduces and reads some of her best-known poems for children: Sun is laughing In this poem Grace Nichols imagines the sun as a moody, teenage girl. For forest Uses ...

The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this poem Uses a series wild and wonderful similes to describe the writer. The hearer of this poem ...

Of Flanders and France in a storm of pains. To the mellifluous voice of a far-off song, They have gone on a journey of ages long. They have left behind their earthly name, And their earthly body, to ...

VietNamNet Bridge – “It’s storming outside/but no matter what it’s like/our family love will last forever/wall of love nothing can sever.” VietNamNet Bridge – “It’s storming outside/but no matter what ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...