Merle Haggard has always been a stellar lyricist and singer, but this video proves that the man also had quite the knack for penning a poem.

A reader shares what a poem Abby printed years ago still means to her.

She would defer to everyone else, saying nothing, but storing up every glance and gesture, silently skewering the bourgeois pleasantries in her mind, and later in a poem. I keep a complete copy of ...