noun

1. an arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose: some poems are in meter, some in free verse
2. anything suggesting a poem in its effect

Etymology: MFr poeme < L poema < Gr poiēma, anything made, poem < poiein, to make < IE base *kwei-, to heap up, build, make > Sans cinōti, (he) arranges, OSlav činiti, to arrange, form