There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

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Children's Day Poem in English: Childhood is a magical time, a period of wonder and innocence. It's a time when we explore the world with curious eyes and open hearts. Every child, a unique and ...

The audience for 91-year-old Agnes Andreasen’s poetry just keeps growing. At first, her audience was limited to family members, starting with siblings and then growing to include her husband, Bernard; ...

Author John Kenney says becoming a parent changed everything for him and his wife of 13 years. And, for Kenney, the best way to process his feelings about parenting two kids, ages 10 and 7, was to ...

'I chose this amusing poem because it just sums up that when things go wrong, they can go wrong in a big way and we all have days like these, but hopefully we can smile afterwards about the silly ...

So many things rhyme with spring: ring, sing, wing, bling -- even the youngest of readers will catch the notion after leafing through this season's richly rhythmic offerings. Blazing Words Cool and ...

More than 50 years after her grandmother saw the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famed “I Have a Dream” speech, 9-year-old Leontyn Gbegan spent her Sunday morning in a room overlooking the ...

My folks could beg or borrow. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s ...

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.