April Poetry Month
In honor of poetry month, Allie Hersch sent out daily poems to the SFDS faculty and staff. These poems helped get us all in the mood for Pocket Poetry Day, an annual tradition at SFDS when kids select a poem they love (written by themselves or another poet) and carry it around with them to share with friends, teachers, and family on May 2nd. Following are three of the poems Ms. Hersch sent out; hopefully they will inspire you as well.
Oh, Atlas
-Joshua Beckman
Oh, atlas
look
you forgot my island.
Weather
- Hettie Jones
My folder of poems
labeled "weather" holds
no clues as to whether
or not there'll be any
weather to count on, say,
a hard rain like "little nails," or
that deluge "plunging radiant"
now that we've plunged into war
and wars don't stop like rain stops
like that last slow drizzle
onto the old tin bathroom vent
sweet hint of growth
in the soft wet drift north
fire or ice, fire or ice
are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing
?
- Randall Mann
is only something on which to hang
your long overcoat; the slender snake asleep
in the grass; the umbrella by the door;
the black swan guarding the pond.
This ? has trouble in mind: do not ask
why the wind broods, why the light is so unclean.
It is summer, the rhetoric of the field,
its yellow grasses, something unanswerable.
The dead armadillo by the roadside, indecent.
Who cares now to recall that frost once encrusted
the field? The question mark—cousin to the 2,
half of a heart—already has begun its underhanded inquiry.
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