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poem

[poh-uhm] / ˈpoʊ əm /


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Arriaga’s poem is a long series of names, phrases, lines from politicians and writers that encapsulate America.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

"And the poem just came out. It literally wrote itself," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Instead, the Galway poet was about to discover that a poem she had written seven years earlier, and which was inspired by him, had appeared on the paper.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

He once imagined the poem as a “message in a bottle,” sent out in the hope that it might “wash up on land, on heartland, perhaps.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Based on the poem Desiderata, the lyrics conveyed that everyone in the universe has a right to be here.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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