Tag Archives: national poetry month

Aaaaand it’s still Poetry Month!

Posted on 14 April 2010 by

Come to the orchard in spring There is light and wine And Sweethearts In the pomegranate flowers If you do not come These do not matter It you do come These do not matter –Rumi

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Back to the poetry mines…

Posted on 10 April 2010 by

I live my life in growing rings which move out over the things around me. Perhaps I’ll never complete the last, but that’s what I mean to try. I’m circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I’ve been circling … Continue reading →

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Tra la la, hymns are poetry, too

Posted on 7 April 2010 by

These are the lyrics of one of my favorite Easter hymns.  I figure at least the original Latin (or Greek?) counted as decent poetry.  Myself, I just can’t resist the word “unmoistened”. Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant … Continue reading →

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Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Posted on 6 April 2010 by

I just helped to process a rush order on a new book here at work: Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson.  It’s a children’s book aimed at middle school readers; it’s also a fictional young black boy’s memoir written entirely in poetry. … Continue reading →

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Your poem for the day

Posted on 5 April 2010 by

Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an … Continue reading →

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Easter in poetry month, so of course this

Posted on 4 April 2010 by

Rather than posting it here, I shall link you to the poem in order to preserve the formatting (it’s important): “Easter Wings” by George Herbert

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Because it is Holy Saturday and Poetry Month

Posted on 3 April 2010 by

I Midwinter spring is its own seasonSempiternal though sodden towards sundown,Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,In windless cold that is the … Continue reading →

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For Poetry Month

Posted on 2 April 2010 by

The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,they’re in each other all along. –Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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For Poetry Month

Posted on 1 April 2010 by

in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the littlelame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill comerunning from marbles andpiracies and it’sspring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queerold balloonman whistlesfar and weeand bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope … Continue reading →

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April is the LOLest month

Posted on 7 April 2009 by

And in honor of National Poetry Month, I present that vitally important 20th-century masterpiece, The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot… In LOLspeek. i seez cumean sybilsybil can has bukkit?sybil wantz DIE 1. IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD april hates … Continue reading →

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