Poetry

Descriptive poems are intended to evoke a given subject in ways that linger in the reader's memory. Some of the greatest poems in history have been descriptive poems, focusing on people (many of...

Poets have long written about the things that vex them. The practice of ranting in poetic verse dates back to at least Ancient Greece, where Homer catches Zeus complaining in The Odyssey: "Mortal...

An image poem is a poetic form that uses descriptions of visual images to demonstrate a subject or emotion. Image poetry can often be in narrative form, and its style relies on the flow of the...

Catalogue poems consist of the author's thoughts, observations and feelings of the subject that is being written about. Because these poems have no set rhythm, length or rhyming scheme, the writer...

Descriptive poems tickle your senses, send smells up your nostrils, clap noises in your eardrums, run texture over your fingertips and paint settings before your eyes. Purveying that setting and...

Simply put, a haiku is a Japanese form of poetry with the syllabic meter (syllables per line) reading 5-7-5. This means that the first line contains five syllables, the second contains seven, and...