0 poems in general as a form of literature:
contemporary poetry and prose
This film has a savage poetry and brilliance.
1 poems, esp. as a form of literature:
the poetry of John Donne
There have been a fantastic number of entries for this year's poetry competition.
He regarded poetry as sentimental self-expression.
Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the profound sadness of loss.
The greatness of his poetry, and the fascination of the era which produced it, meanwhile remain undisputed.
Students learn from recordings of poetry that not all rhymes sound alike.
They also circulated their (unpublished) commonplace books of poetry from approximately the year 1760 to 1840.