For the last eight years, Mancos resident and former Fort Lewis College education professor Lindy Simmons has produced an original two-hour Thursday night variety show involving day performers ...

Adding Rhyme and Rhythm - Poetry in Education. Sarah B 8 Stories. Friday November 01, 2019, 4 min Read. FOLLOW US.

So some poems that rhyme are a novelty. While others show care through specificity. You might write a poem to make a new lover swoon or write one in remembrance of a loved one gone too soon.

The poem was terribly old-fashioned, and it was about death. My mother’s views back then are now standard. In ancient times, poetry was part of ritual, not only to placate the gods but as to ...

More: Poetry from Daily Life: For a ballad, pick a beat and pick a rhyme, then stick with it. A lot of poetry these days is written in free verse, which doesn’t stick to a steady, repeated ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. You’ll probably know a bit about rhyme already as it is often used in poetry. Refresh your memory with this short ...

Couplets are the most versatile form of rhyming poetry. Whatever your mood or your message, you can start with two lines that rhyme and add other rhymed pairs if you need them to complete your story.

"Minnesota Blue," a wistful poem that celebrates the state's golden fields of wheat and corn shimmering in the early morn, was written by a singer-songwriter in Hawaii who left Minnesota in 1958 ...

For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett ...

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.