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Apr 21, 2006
National Poetry Month 2006
I am sorry that I overlooked that April is National Poetry Month (just as it was last year and the year before)! It comes at a tough time in the school year and I apologize. I will try to find some of my favorite poems and publish them here before the end of the month. Go. Read poetry. Post some, too. In comments, or on your blog, or in your heart. Poetry is good for the soul. So say I.
[UPDATE] Jami, in comments, makes a great suggestion that you check out Spicy Cauldron (now added to my blogroll). I think you should, too, so I elevated her suggestion into the post.
[UPDATE 2] And, check out Desperate Kingdoms, and this poem. Also added to my blogroll.
[UPDATE 3] And, oh my gosh, HOW did I overlook Julie? If you don't already read Carter's Little Pill, you should. Scroll backward through her archives. She's got a poem for every day of the month (which she calls NaPo).
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I CARRY YOUR HEART
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
e e cummings
Posted by: BC | Apr 21, 2006 9:45:32 AM
Thank you, BC! What a wonderful, lovely poem!
Posted by: Denise | Apr 21, 2006 9:51:29 AM
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Some poems don't rhyme
but this one rhymes true.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Some poems don't rhyme
and this is one of them.
Posted by: Jami | Apr 21, 2006 11:32:39 AM
OK, now that you have an idea of the lower end of the poetry scale for comparison, go check out the latest incarnation of the ever-continuing Open Source Poem here to get an idea of something much better. I can also recommend Andy's Spicy Cauldron if you want to read some very good, hot off the keyboard poetry by a pro.
Posted by: Jami | Apr 21, 2006 11:43:55 AM
Jami calls me a pro! I'm flattered... unless she meant an old pro, of course, in which case I'd say who's she been listening to? It's all lies, I tell you, lies! I never took money, only food tokens! ;-)
Seriously, thank you so much for the referencing in this post, Denise, and for adding me to your blogroll. I'm very grateful and now that I've found your site have added you to my own set of links on my site. I will be heading back here again but I'm telling everyone I have an essay to do on women poets by this coming Friday so may not be visiting other folks' blogs or posting to my own much from tomorrow until next weekend. I have been procrastinating on the essay and it has to stop! x
Posted by: Andy | Apr 23, 2006 5:54:44 AM
It's interesting you placed me under 'other blogs' which I like instinctively. Although a gay man, out and proud and all the rest of that, I've always said I'm a poet, not a gay poet... though sexuality comes into all things. So thank you for a sound placing I approve of wholeheartedly! :-) x
Posted by: Andy | Apr 23, 2006 5:56:50 AM
Welcome, Andy! It's great to have you. I've really enjoyed my time on your site.
As for the posting placement, that was purely due to laziness. When I started my blogroll I only anticipated having Trans-related blogs and law related blogs. But then my kids started blogs and I stumbled across the fabulous Maria, and then other people with blogs started linking to my blog and I didn't have a category -- so I just lumped everyone into "Other". Hmmm, come to think of it -- that's where *I* belong too! I have referred to myself as "other" on more than one occassion! :)
Posted by: Denise | Apr 23, 2006 7:02:19 AM
Denise!
Thanks for the mention. I'm glad you like some of the stuff I've been managing to come up with this year. Don't listen to any bridges anywhere.
Julie
Posted by: Julie Carter | Apr 23, 2006 11:10:37 AM
Hi Julie! Thanks. :) Nope, I don't listen to bridges much anymore. See, for example, this post, especially the comments. :)
Posted by: Denise | Apr 23, 2006 12:16:29 PM
BC, that's one of my favs!
I adore Dorothy Parker, her verse as well as her wit.
My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air with curly smoke
from all my burning bridges.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), SANCTUARY
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
One more drink and I'll be under the host.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Posted by: Jen Burke | Apr 23, 2006 9:47:35 PM
