When he finds that you don’t take your troubles to bed “Don’t Take Your Troubles to Bed” flows seamlessly with beautiful rhymes and sharp rhythm to give advice in simple and plain words.

Dato’s love poem “Pagan Passion” exemplifies his mastery of the written word, playing with a melodic rhyme scheme and alliteration to show the joys and torments of flirtation. Nor ever ...

With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride ...

Rhymes and titles are not necessary and in fact are likely to be counterproductive. The purpose is to convey an image, one with a wryly ironic twist. Here are some examples written by WelchM ...

The poem is not, however ... in which humble poverty is pitted against sophistication and manners. The dogs discuss their owners but, as in Henryson's animal fables, we see that often the animals ...

Encourage them to respond to what they find with sketches, doodles, exploratory rhymes, and other fragments (p ... eats traffic signs and the Purple Po (despite otherwise impeccable manners) eats its ...

by which he meant poetry hampered by rhyme and metre. "But for the opera," he declared, that day on Prospect Hill, "I could never have written Leaves of Grass." Whitman was at that time a man of ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it considered necessary to write notes of sympathy about a death on cards specially designed for the purpose? I have given up on finding cards that are acceptable and instead ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a number of friends I regularly meet for meals out, as well as for friends’ birthdays. We’ve been friends for going on 40 years and first began socializing after ...

Bob Kahla is a fourth-generation cowboy from Chambers County. The longtime Stowell, Texas, resident trains horses, writes ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 11-year-old granddaughter wants to register online for birthday gifts for her party. I told her I didn’t think that was appropriate, especially for 11-year-olds.

The Atlanta rapper was known for his hits “Type of Way” and “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)” and his Rich Gang collaborations with ...