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Happy Take Your Poet to Work Day!!
It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day and my poets and I are almost ready to head out to the office! I’ve spent the morning trying to make some sort of “Quoth the Raven” / sales quote pun but I … Continue reading
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Tagged Giveaway, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Take your Poet to Work Day
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Poem – A – Day: Never Give All the Heart by W. B. Yeats
Today’s poem comes from my literary soul mate, William Butler Yeats. While I am sure that Mr. Yeats will be making more than one appearance here during National Poetry Month, the wistful melancholy of this poem really appealed to me … Continue reading
An Unexpected Kinship in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker
When reading poetry, I often make connections between different poems and poets. Whether thematically or in tone or subject, my brain bridges one book of poetry with another and then on to another and on to another. So when I … Continue reading
It’s been a very e. e. cummings sort of day
My e. e. cummings poetry pendant, inspired by the poem, “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) was featured in this lovely treasury. For more e. e. cummings themed goodness, check out my previous post. … Continue reading
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Tagged e. e. cummings, Etsy, Etsy Treasury, i carry your heart with me, Poems, Poetry
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The Final Poem of National Poetry Month 2013
Hey guys! It is April 30th, which means that National Poetry Month is at an end and my Poem – a -Day posts are also coming to a close. I hope you have enjoyed my celebration of Poetry this past … Continue reading
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Tagged Hug O War, National Poetry Month, Poem, Poem-a-day, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Shel Silverstein
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Poem – A – Day: Birches by Robert Frost
I couldn’t let National Poetry Month go by without posting a poem by Robert Frost. But where most people have “The Road Less Traveled” as their go-to Frost poem, I have always loved Birches best of all his poems (although … Continue reading
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Tagged Birches, National Poetry Month, Poem, Poem-a-day, Poems, Poetry, Robert Frost
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Poem – A – Day: I am Much too Alone In This World, Yet Not Alone Enough
A new (to me) favorite poem: I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour. I am … Continue reading
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Poem – a – Day: Maggie and Millie and Molly and May by e. e. cummings / Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant.
For today’s poem of the day, I wanted to share a version of e. e. cumming’s “Maggie and Millie and Molly and May” that I particularly love. A few years ago, inspired by the act of reading poetry with her … Continue reading
Poem – A – Day: The Land of Nod
Yesterday, instead of posting my poem of the day, I got distracted and talked into doing an impromptu photo shoot of tiny kitties before the two oldest kittens went to their new home. But I think you will forgive me … Continue reading
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Tagged Cats, Kittens, Land of Nod, National Poetry Month, Photography, Poem, Poem-a-day, Poems, Poetry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sleep
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