It was a warm winter day. Any day you can work up a sweat in January is a good day. I was hiking the trails of Johnston Mill Nature Preserve earlier this week with my wife Cindy. It is a lovely place ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Poetry doesn’t rhyme anymore, and the people demand an explanation. There should have been a press ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, now I suppose is as good as any time to talk to you about poetry and rhyme. Does a poem have to ...

Poetry that rhymes relays a message through the music of the spoken word. It gives smoothness and flow to the poem; along with joy of reading. A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

April is National Poetry Month, so it seemed the perfect time to read poetry, which is not my usual genre. “The Lost Spells” by Robert Macfarlane seemed a good place to start with its small size and ...