National Poetry Month
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04-06-2015, 11:45 PM
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National Poetry Month
Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has been holding "National Poetry Month" every April in an attempt to get more people interested in reading and writing poetry.
http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home Have you got a favorite poem? (Note that limericks count as poems, and for the most part, songs are just poems set to music.) Here's mine: O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again By James Laughlin How she let her long hair down over her shoulders, making a love cave around her face. Return and return again. How when the lamplight was lowered she pressed against him, twining her fingers in his. Return and return again. How their legs swam together like dolphins and their toes played like little tunnies. Return and return again. How she sat beside him cross-legged, telling him stories of her childhood. Return and return again. How she closed her eyes when his were open, how they breathed together, breathing each other. Return and return again. How they fell into slumber, their bodies curled together like two spoons. Return and return again. How they went together to Otherwhere, the fairest land they had ever seen. Return and return again. O best of all nights, return and return again. (it helps if you read it aloud, with one breath for each phrase) |
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