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National Poetry Month

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April is National Poetry Month when the Academy of American Poets helps us to stop and take note, appreciate and discover poetry. Throughout American poetry is celebrated with readings, events, activities for students, encouragement to write your own poetry and it ends with Poem in Your Pocket Day (April 30).  Whatever you do, or wherever you live spend some time during this month reading, writing, reciting poetry. Find a poetry slam. Or if you can’t find one get some of your friends together and have your own. If you want to find out more go HERE or check out some of the many links here in Poetry and Poetry Month tags. There are lots of good poems. No, make that lots of great poems. Some serious, some funny, some deeply thought provoking, some just plain silly. And stop by the rest of the month for some new and interesting poems.

Whatever you do enjoy some poems!

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?

April is a Month of Poems

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April is poetry month so you can expect to be seeing some awesome and interesting poems this month. Hopefully, if you love to read, you will know some of the poems.

Let Poetry Month begin.

Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

    • A poem should be palpable and mute
    • As a globed fruit,

Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown–

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

    • A poem should be motionless in time
    • As the moon climbs,

Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves.
Memory by memory the mind–

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.

    • A poem should be equal to:
    • Not true.

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.

For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea–

A poem should not mean
But be.

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.

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