Life is short, and it’s better to live in the ... If your idea of lighthearted poetry begins and ends with funny ...

In between the funny poems, I share serious poems about kindness ... In "Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life," Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas suggest that ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong ... students’ spirits and to keep them attentive. In between the ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz ... Harrison When I met my wonderful wife Rose, we found it funny that we were both writers. I wrote comedy for television and advertising ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Goines is bringing millions to tears with her beautifully reflective poem on life called 'The Gift-Wrap & The Jewel'.

Drunk (2023) Wang Mun Kiat is a Singaporean-Chinese poet, whose simple poems in his second collection Short Tongue (2023 ... captures an artist’s lust for life. Translated from Chinese by ...

The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante ... Sometimes, the best things in life come short, sweet and simple - as with this lovely little offering from Rainer Maria Rilke.

Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family. Free verse and narrative poems can sometimes seem similar, but they are not the same. One key difference is that ...