Discover short and easy poems on World Environment Day for kids and students. These simple, rhyming verses inspire ...

One of the most deceptively simple short poems, Christina Rossetti’s “Boats Sail on the Rivers” cleverly suggests that nature’s work is far more impressive than anything humans can build.

This enigmatic short poem, just 34 words across two stanzas ... as I connect with the devastating destruction of nature, that my generation has inflicted upon our precious earth.

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom.