Poetry
Inspired by Black History month, The Academy of American Poets worked with a variety of interested parties including teachers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and of course poets to figure out the many ways poetry could be celebrated. They concluded April was a great month for the celebration, and on April 1, 1996, President Bill Clinton proclaimed April to be National Poetry Month.
Following the Academy’s lead, Writers’ Morning Out has posted a poem-a-day during April since WMO’s inception in 2010.
Read all the poems posted since 2010 on our old blog.
“Peripaticity” by George Kauffman
I feel the earth’s spin more each day In an Infinitismal way, The press of birds moving south toward warmth and Fields drying where
“Rose Garden” by Sam Barbee
Arid days, you let me water herbs and beans. Leaf bellies and blooms wet and revealed. A laden vine shaken unnerved by muscled
“Farewell Johnny Mack” by Neil Smith
Johnny Mack Brown may Be in the ground but I remember his All American self rein whipping his palomino Reno to go faster faster Through
“Learning by Heart” by Janet Ford
The radiator hissed and hummed and hammered as we solved and spelled in kept silence; among the drip-cans, rain pinged like answers dropped through
“Leatherwood Falls” by Brenda Kay Ledford
Blanche packs a picnic: tomato sandwich with mayonnaise, a moon pie and RC Cola. Horseback riding through rhododendrons at the Fires Creek Campground,
“Silver Needles” by Tom Scheve
Silvery needles on Pines of green swaying gently on winds unseen Whispering songs through limbs up high, soothing sounds that fill the sky. Yet