Poetry

If It’s April It’s National Poetry Month

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April is National Poetry Month where we celebrate poetry and poets who craft such detailed thoughts in few words. Throughout America schools, libraries, booksellers and individuals have events and activities to highlight this wonderful form. To participate is easy – and you don’t even have to be in America! There are many ways you can take parts HERE and during this month we will take a look at some of the suggestions. My favorite is Poem In Your Pocket day (April 18) when you simply just put a poem in your pocket, or how about Take A Poem Out to Lunch? Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?

During this month MLCWO will discover some new and old favorites and we can take a wander through the world of poetry.

 

 

 

National Poetry Month 2014

 

500th Post!!!!!

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Wow. 500. What a milestone. This is my 500th post and I am proud of it. I look around my blog and you always think you have more than you really have. But 500 – WOW! What a nice, big, round, beautiful, BIG, number.

I am so proud of myself. 🙂

And since it is still April and April is poetry month, I thought I would share a link to PoemHunter.com where there is a list of the Top 500 Poems. I am not sure if they really are the Top 500, but I really couldn’t find a place with that many listed. Click here to read the list.

There are a lot of people on the list I have not heard of, but I still vote for William Shakespeare.

So Happy 500 Everyone.

Poetry Month ~ Last Gasp

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Poetry, poetry everywhere
Does it always have to rhyme?
No, say the English teachers
Without it you’ll be fine.

Oops, sorry. With reading so much poetry it is difficult not to slip into it occasionally. Only a few more days are left of April and while you know that you can read poetry whenever you want, somehow it just doesn’t seem to happen so much unless it’s April. So use the last few days to rekindle your love of rhyming verse, sonnets, haiku or even limmericks. In case you are stuck for ideas for yourself of some stubborn young person you know Penguin books has some useful suggestions on what to read. Here. And check out a really cute kid friendly poem they have linked to (which being the useful blogger I am will save you the effort – Here).

So hurry, hurry, hurry
Read some poems now
Rhyming words and couplets
As April leaves……so do they!

 

Who said it has to rhyme?

Earth Songs by Myra Cohn Livingston, Poet & Leonard Everett Fisher, Painter

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As April is Poetry Month and Earth Day is celebrated the library makes life easy to be relevant and displays books on what is current. If you want to find something new and fresh that is the place to go. So, while perusing the display (in the children’s section – a favorite place) this book was found. It is a book long poem (in a manageable size for the younger reader) with the most beautiful illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher, Painter. It is a tribute to the earth and connects the poetic word with awareness of our planet. I urge you to check it out.

Earth Songs ~ an excerpt

Little O, small earth, spinning in space,
face covered with dizzy clouds, racing,
chasing sunlight through the Milky Way,
say your secrets, small earth, little O,
know where you lead, I follow. I go

Patched together
With land and sea,
I am earth,
Great earth.
Come with me!

Huge continents lie on me, dry land,
sand grained from crumbled rock, now drifted,
sifted to powder. Silt, sand, red clay
weigh down my crust in layers of loam.
Roam everywhere – I am earth, your home.

Myra Cohn Livingston