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My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski ... Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme ...
When you spend time with poetry, you expect a certain kind of relationship between author and reader. That’s only part of ...
Poetry written especially for children is perfect for those developing brains: because poems for children tend to be short, ...
Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.
It might be relevant that the term of art for this kind of rhyme is masculine ... and your circumstances. This poem is about Aunt Jennifer’s constrained life and eventual death, but it ...
"Just as in the cowboy life ... their stories in rhyme because they were easier to remember." Since the 1960s, commercial fishing vessel radios have helped popularize fisher poetry.
The fast rhythm and rhyme give the narrative poem its energy ... So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family. Free verse and narrative poems can sometimes seem ...
J.M. Allen’s traditionally published book “Real Rhyming Poems” is available at the Rochester Public Library, some area schools and coffee shops. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area ...