Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...

I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop ...

Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself ... Some things must go wrong your whole life long, And the sooner you know it the better. It is folly to fight with the Infinite ...

How much do we enjoy a love poem? Let us count the ways ... within itself, and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose from the earth lives dimly in my body. I love you without knowing ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

Without a doubt, she is the woman of your life. If you find it hard to express everything you feel, you'll love these poems, as they beautifully and subtly highlight how important your mom is in ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst ... “You Are the Boss of Your Poem.” Children are the boss of very little these days. With few exceptions, their time is ...

While poetry belongs to the humanities, and often focuses on the subjects of love and nature ... of poetry to help clients heal from difficult life events and painful emotions while, at the ...

By Nicholas Casey My friend Ravi introduced me to the love poems of Pablo Neruda ... “Twilight falling in your eyes.” And yet, unlike in the poems, I had no muse, a fact cruelly highlighted ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose ... perseverance, and the love of learning”), and "Southern Bred: A Memoir of Gothic Poems for Adults ...