The word "poem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it anytime you want to refer to a literary work that is written in verse. Example: I wrote a poem about my favorite vacation spot.
In Wales, the National Theatre is working with poet and novelist Owen Sheers in ancient woodland, inspired by his poem Mametz Wood, which tells of the battle in which 4,000 of the 38th Welsh division were killed or wounded.
Larkin's poem, written about his friend Winifred Arnott, sees the lost maiden name as a symbol of the erasure of a woman's youthful and sexually desirable self, now swallowed up in domestic duties and motherhood.
Larkin's poem "Maiden Name" concludes that the old name "shelters our faithfulness, / Instead of losing shape and meaning less / With your depreciating luggage laden".
This week's poem, Once there came a man, is the fifth in Black Riders and Other Lines, the first of Crane's two collections.
It is impossible to watch Shaun Moore's beautiful pro-independence poem Wha's Like Us and remain unmoved.
The Whitsun Weddings, the title poem of a collection published in 1964, has regularly been voted one of the nation's favourites.
On the following day a permanent commemoration of poem and poet, a slate plaque carved by the sculptor Martin Jennings, will be unveiled at King's Cross station in London.
The poem will be celebrated next month in a 200-mile onboard performance between Hull and London, involving scores of actors, 200 miles of track, eight towns and cities, recordings of some of the poet's beloved jazz tunes, and the voice of actor Bill Nighy reading his work over the train's Tannoy.
Snow, in this poem, is merciless and deadly: the lonely Lucy Gray, who wanders out into an unexpected blizzard, gets lost and is never seen again.
WS Graham wrote in a 1977 poem of "Floating across the frozen tundra / of the lexicon and the dictionary", but I find lexicons to be more tropical jungle than tundra, gloriously ornate in their tendrilled outgrowths and complex root systems.
Later in the year Reid's book-length poem The Song of Lunch, about two former lovers meeting at their old Soho haunt, was made into a BBC film starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman.
