Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Poetry is all about making us feel. Happy, sad, amused; it's all about the feelings. Check out these fantastic poems, chosen to make you laugh, cry and smile.

If you are an Andy Griffith fanatic, you know that no one can throw a rock or recite a declaration of love better than Ernest T. Bass. With this being the month of love, we didn’t choose Sonnet 116 by ...

I am not a romantic person. Don't get me wrong, if you want to festoon me with flowers or dump a box of chocolates in my lap, I won't be mad at it. But if a guy were to compose me a love poem and then ...