For your friends and for you ... Jean Untermeyer knew how to tug at her reader’s heartstrings. Her poems ranged from structured to free-flowing, delving into themes of discipline and loss.

My best friends Molly and Maya (they're twins) and Josephine waved at me. "Hey guys," I said casually, biting into a chicken and pesto panini, "you know that history project on the second world war?

free verse poems don't follow any obvious rules. Instead they often follow the rhythms of natural speech. So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family.

I miss playing with my friends at school. I miss visiting my grandparents at ... Never before have so many children been out of school at the same time. “These powerful poems show the enormous impact ...