Poems can also validate your emotional anguish or provide a different perspective to ease your pain in the darkest moments. Use these sympathy poems in cards, messages, texts, or other ways to ...

Some people choose to include poems in their condolence messages, rather than coming up with original words. While it can be nice to come up with your own words, choosing an appropriate poem for ...

Paul Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” contains the famed line “I know why the caged bird sings.” Maya Angelou used Dunbar’s line for the title of her acclaimed 1969 memoir. She read a portion ...