Best Poetry Articles

Looking to win a poetry contest? With so many poetry contests available both online and in poetry journals, you don?t have to look too hard to find one that suits your writing style and your wallet. But before you go entering contests, there are a few important tips considerations to make.

When most people think of love poems, they think of serious and soulful expressions of passion. Long sonnets by Shakespeare or romantic poems by Browning and Lord Byron are the norm for love poetry. However, funny love poems can be good for a laugh. They may not be romantic, but they do give your friends something to enjoy. Here are 5 funny limericks from anonymous authors.

?[Henry David] Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowed to witness.? ? Nathaniel Hawthorne (Journal entry, September 1, 1842) Most of the greatest poets were not recognized for their work until they had long been laid to rest. Many suffered g...

James Elroy Flecker was almost exactly a contemporary of Rupert Brooke. Both died in 1915 ? Brooke on a troopship bound for the Dardanelles and Flecker in a Swiss sanatorium. Both of them fantasised about death, Flecker more so because he was diagnosed with consumption in 1910.

Since Mohamed Ali?then Cassius Clay?announced that he had written ?The world?s shortest poem,? I have known that I would be a poet. ?ME? WHEE!? His triumphant proclamation evoking shivers within my troubled teenaged identity, for I reasoned in rhyme.

Ballet is a beautiful form of dance that has captivated audiences for many years. Typically performed in a theatre, ballet is a powerful art that combines beauty and grace to tell a story. Ballet dancers must work very hard for many years to become good enough to perform in a professional ballet company, but this doesn't stop many little girls from dreaming that they can become the next prima ballerina.

In Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene', Books 11 and 111 The Bower of Bliss and the Garden of Adonis might look similar from a distance; their geographical form is certainly similar, and the tour on which Spenser takes us seems to follow the same kind of route. But their ostensible similarity, and their juxtaposition in two adjacent books of 'The Faerie Queene' only serve to highlight their differences.

This poem was inspired by two lines in a movie well known to most of you, "Bridges Over Madison County". First there is the powerful emotion of Meryl Streep's character asking, "I wonder if anyone can see the beauty of it", and then the best line, "I'll only say this once. I've never said it before. This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime", by Clint Eastwood's character. This is more than love, it is a deep unexplainable connection, a true gift: "This kind of certainty".

Recent deaths in the family found me searching the Internet trying to locate eulogy or funeral poetry. What I found was often very inspiring, but I couldn't find exactly the right poem. Having the same problem? Here are a couple of poems for you.

Love poems, an emotional phrase that gives all of us some deep thoughts, weather you like lyrics or not. As you are reading this I assume that you like poetry. Do you read or listen? I like to do both. Beautiful written texts are always remarkable reading. On the other hand...listening to a verse by a master narrator is also delightful. This article is about poems on audio books. You will also find some quotes from the authors.