National Poetry Month, Day 13

This is just to say…that what I really wish I still had is Josh Rayner’s parody of this poem he wrote me in 10th grade that started out, “I burned your newly-finished novel yesterday…” This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving…

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National Poetry Month, Day 9

I memorized this poem in the 9th grade, by singing it to myself. Ah, Poe. My emo high school boyfriend. Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago,    In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know    By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she…

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National Poetry Month, Day 8

I thought this poem particularly appropriate for this year, with its particularly loooong winter. A Wintry Sonnet A Robin said: The Spring will never come, And I shall never care to build again. A Rosebush said: These frosts are wearisome, My sap will never stir for sun or rain. The half Moon said: These nights are fogged and slow,…

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National Poetry Month, Day 5

I haven’t memorized this one yet in its entirety…but I will someday. Its cadence entrances me. anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did Women and men(both little and small)…

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National Poetry Month: Day Three

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Tweet

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National Poetry Month, Day Two

Another of my heroes: Gelett Burgess. Table Manners THE Goops they lick their fingers, And the Goops they lick their knives; They spill their broth on the tablecloth- Oh, they lead disgusting lives! The Goops they talk while eating, And loud and fast they chew; And that is why I’m glad that I Am not a Goop-are you? –Gelett…

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April is National Poetry Month!

I think that I shall never see A billboard as lovely as a tree because unless the billboards fall I’ll never see a tree at all. ~Ogden Nash April is National Poetry Month! I thought it would be fun–starting now–to post one poem a day here on the website and share with you some of the poetry I’ve loved…

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