A collection of “tanka” poems about the COVID-19 pandemic that Gendai Tanka Kyokai (The association of contemporary tanka poets) published recently gives us a look back on the last three years.

Instead, she dealt with the pain by writing tanka, a traditional form of Japanese poetry using only 31 syllables. One of her poems translates to, "Friends missing during hide-and-seek. I live ...

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

But, if you're curious about limerick poems — maybe even considering how to write your own, we're sharing some of our ...

They can also be about anything, from a small feeling to a huge war. There are lots of examples of poems where people disagree about what it means or what it is about – even the poet!

These poems contain some sort of counting, usually counting backwards from ten. Watch this video to see an example of a counting poem. When you are writing anything (for example, a story or a poem ...

If there was anything Shakespeare could do well, it was to write immortal literature, and this lesser-known poem is one example. Shakespeare used allegory and elegy to describe complex themes ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's "seriocomic" ode to Missouri includes plenty of references you'll ...

Here are eight examples of mutualistic relationships. True gobies (Gobiidae) are a family of about 2,000 species of fishes. Most of them are quite small and live on the seafloor. In some cases, gobies ...