Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes her poems a rich resource for teaching kids about Black history. Angelou’s poetry, characterized by its ...

Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.