More by Genevieve Pfeiffer This article was originally published with the title “Prayer to Fireflies” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 333 No. 1 (July/August 2025), p. 103 ...

A Father’s Prayer A poem By Gioncarlo Valentine Courtesy of Gioncarlo Valentine ...

Peter Dazeley/GettyImages An abecedarius is a specific type of acrostic poem in which successive lines or verses begin with each letter of the alphabet in order. Geoffrey Chaucer’s 23-verse poem ...

St. Patrick’s Breastplate, St. Patrick's prayer of Ireland's patron saint has come down through the centuries and remains popular today and given the current reality of the Coronavirus pandemic ...

With Ó Tuama’s example in mind, this column is my own prayerful poem — or maybe poetic prayer — for embracing a civic vision of sheltering one another. Tomorrow is upon us. E-Day. Election Day.

A n " acrostic poem" is a poem in which the first letter of each line — read vertically — spells out a word or a message. The word “ acrostic " comes from the Greek words “akros" (outermost) and ...

The poem is a story, the memory of a story and a reflection of that memory all at once. Told in six stanzas, the poet speaks about going out into the snow with their younger brother.

The “I am” math poem template is an example of poetry before math. The prompts used in the template allow the teacher to incorporate students’ interests when learning math in the future.

A Prayer for the Past by George MacDonald All sights and sounds of day and year, All groups and forms, each leaf and gem, Are thine, O God, nor will I fear To talk to Thee of them. Too great Thy heart ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2023 issue. speaking only to water. Dallas poet and educagtor Kim Nall co-curates and emcees the raising Our Voices Alumni Reading Series for Carlow ...

A common poetry form rolled out when a school requests a focus on values is the acrostic poem. This is where you write the word down the left-hand side of the page and then start each line using a ...