Lyric Poems

I've never really thought of songs as lyric poems, because the truth is I've never really dealt with or learned about lyric poems much in school. But as I was thinking more and more about it, it makes since that the songs we hear day to day are indeed lyric poems; some of them rhyme, some repeat, some contain figurative language, etc. Many of these songs that we could consider lyric poems are narrative poems as well that tell a story. As we are continuing to look at different types of poems in children's literature, I've realized that poems aren't so bad afterall. And all poems don't have to deal with Shakespeare either, unlike the ones I read all through high school. I think poems, especially nursery rhymes, are great to introduce to young children as they begin reading. It's poems/sonnettes like those of Shakespeare and other poets that cause students to dispise poems or the thought of them.