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a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure:

(1編の)詩, (韻を踏んだ短い)詩歌 (!poemは個々の詩, poetryはその総称)

e.g. the sun is an important symbol in this poem

e.g. a poem in terza rima

e.g. lyric poems.

something that arouses strong emotions because of its beauty:

詩的な物, 詩情豊かな物

e.g. you make a poem of riding downhill on your bike.

late 15th century: from French poème or Latin poema, from Greek poēma, early variant of poiēma ‘fiction, poem’, from poiein ‘create’.