Isn’t the month of April lovely? Not only is it the month where we shed off winter completely and start to smell new life in the air, it’s also National Poetry Month. Springtime and poetry go so well together, don’t you think? One of the very best poets to help us appreciate the splendor of… Continue reading National Poetry Month
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Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
It’s hard to review a book of poetry. Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets, and I discovered her work a few years ago by picking up one of her books in a bookstore and opening to random pages and reading her poems. (That’s how I have discovered most every poet that I like.)… Continue reading Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
Poetry Sunday
“THANKS, ROBERT FROST” David Ray, from Music of Time: Selected and New Poems Do you have hope for the future? someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end. Yes, and even for the past, he replied, that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was, something we can accept, mistakes made… Continue reading Poetry Sunday
Poetry Sunday
Welcome Morning By Anne Sexton There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning, in the chapel of eggs I cook each morning, in the outcry from the kettle that heats my coffee each morning, in the spoon… Continue reading Poetry Sunday