Poems regarded as forming a division of literature, Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in vivid imagery or rhythmic sound, An imaginative, artistic, and metrical collocation of words so marshaled and attuned as to excite or control the imagination and the emotions; the language of the imagination or emotions metrically expressed

A writer of poems, One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer, One who composes or indites a poem_ an author of metrical compositions

Plural form of poem