A tongue-in-cheek children’s poem which advises a little girl against killing her brother has been blasted as “absolutely disgusting” and “horrifying” by angry moms. They’re demanding ...

April is Poetry Month. I am not suggesting that you sit down and read poems for Poetry Month, but that you write your own poem for someone whom you dearly love.

This poem it really helped me cope. Will you please print it for all your readers who have ever lost a child? Still Hurting in Kentucky Dear Kentucky Friend: I printed this poem several years ago.

It may not be published on a piece of paper, but the presence of poetry is interwoven throughout our days, author Sylvia Vardell writes.

Freda Denis-Cooper reads her poem "Cocoa Beans," dedicated to the children of Cote Dvoire, West Africa, to bring attention to the issue of child labor. Cooper lives in Durham, N.C. Her collection ...

“I’ll lend you for a little time a child of mine,” He said, “For you to love the while she lives and mourn for when she’s dead. “It may be six or seven years, or twenty-two or three, ...

Blank Space If you opened Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, and asked it to write a poem about anti-wokeness like a seventh-grader, you'd likely still get something better than the drivel the multi ...

Scottish schoolgirl among child cancer survivors who inspired poem about courage Former children’s laureate Joseph Coelho was assisted by the youngsters to write Courage Looks Like Me.

Three-year-old Samuel Chelpka became an Internet sensation when a video of him reciting a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins was posted on YouTube. Over the weekend Samuel, now 4, and ...

Shel Silverstein is remembered for his children's poetry, but the themes often dealt with more adult themes. In these 30 Shel Silverstein poems, it's evident that even through his child-like prose ...