A floret growing from bud to bloom is a wonderful metaphor for personal growth, while the way a flower wilts and dies is a ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

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By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Take these lines from the middle of “In the Middle of My Life,” a poem in Jennifer Chang’s recent collection “An Authentic Life”: She quotes a little more from James Longenbach’s book ...

To help, we've collected our favorite “I love you” quotes from the likes of William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and a host of poets and writers whose eloquence ...

Recently, I harvested some giant sunflowers. It is one thing to sow a seed and watch it grow yourself, but quite another to share the process with others. What started as a joke comment turned into ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

National Girl Child Day 2025: The day spread awareness about the inequalities that girls face in the society of India due to gender bias. It was initiated by the Ministry of Women and Child ...

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti 2022: Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897, Cuttack, Orissa. He is known for his special contribution to India's freedom struggle. This year, the ...