So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and ...

One of America’s foremost Black poets, Hughes writes that dreams are essential to a happy life. That the powerful play goes ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

Although his approach departs somewhat from Rilke’s — the speaker in these poems may not always love the questions quite as ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about ... of The Twelve Days Of Christmas as a song, but it started life as a poem. Here, just to make sure you know all the gifts you ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles ... perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem.