How to Use poem in a Sentence

poem

noun

• He wrote a poem about his parents.
• Armitage wrote the poem last year to mark the death of the prince.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
• Part of the poem is painted on the side of a building near the new store.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2022
• The sadness of the turn the poem took takes us by surprise.
  — Mónica De La Torre, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• Watch the video of Pelosi and read Bono’s poem in full below.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2022
• Along with the poem will be all the names submitted by those from around the world.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The task, after all—the business at hand—is to write a poem.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
• There were a whole bunch of poems that were just a riot.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• The poem Hannah reads in the film came out of a pile of poems in the classroom.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
• Thadeus writes a poem for the woman and child transfixed by the cave mouth.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
• This is the first time the poem has appeared in English.
  — Robert Walser, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Here is the poem: For hikes on the trails and coffee in hand, A friend like you is simply grand.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• In one poem, Clare writes in the voice of a plot of land, and the land itself is nostalgic.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• In the last week of his life, Tommy was working on a long poem.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
• The first stanzas of the poem describe the remaining echoes of his late wife.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• This poem ached to swoon at the skill and ardor laid at her passerine feet.
  — Laura Reece Hogan, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• But the birth of a poem can be just as personal for the poet.
  — Monitor Contributing Poets, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
• That just means good stories for the most part, or good poems, and having fun in the classroom with the books.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• To mark the occasion, Thurston shared a sweet poem for her boyfriend.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• The poem then touched on the death of Lisa Marie’s son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2023
• And then the last poem of the book is a fortune-teller telling me my mother has died.
  — James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
• There’s actually a line from a Lucille Clifton poem that opens the script and sets the tone of the film.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• Speak to your loved one from the heart by writing a heartfelt love song or poem.
  — Devi Jags, Women's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• The group left with their poem, headed back to their classes.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
• Gronk had written the poem, of course, though Daddy typed it up.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
• Miss West Virginia performed a poem in jeans and a T-shirt.
  — Rory Satran, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2021
• Change things up at bedtime and read one of these quirky poems rather than a story.
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2023
• As the video continued, a spoken poem played in the background.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• With each body, a poem by the Argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik marks the scene of the crime.
  — Adriana Gallardo, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
• Memorizing a poem first thing in the morning became a way of attuning me to a different logic.
  — Charley Locke, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Mar 2025