Monthly Archives: April 2016

Poetry Housekeeping Reminder! Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Just a reminder that this Thursday, April 21st is National Poem in Your Pocket Day!! Wahoo! Originally initiating in 2002 in NYC, it went national in 2008 and we've been celebrating it here ever since!Don’t forget to carry a poem in … Continue reading

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With Music

With Music Dear, did we meet in some dim yesterday?    I half remember how the birds were mute    Among green leaves and tulip-tinted fruit, And on the grass, beside a stream, we lay In early twilight; faintly, far … Continue reading

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i thank You God for most this amazing

  i thank You God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything which is natural which is … Continue reading

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It’s Friday! In April! Celebrate!

http://www.signature-reads.com/2016/04/dash-against-darkness-10-quotes-celebrating-national-poetry-month/As your Friday bonus please enjoy these quotes celebrating National Poetry Month!Have a great weekend everyone!

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Tax Day Limericks!!

There was a young fellow from Boise Who at times was exceedingly noise.    So his friends’ joy increased    When he moved way back east To what people in Brooklyn called Joise.                                     (John Straley) A lusty young wench … Continue reading

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Syracuse Poetry event John Hoppenthaler!

 http://cnyarts.org/view/7505/dwc-visiting-author-readings-poet-john-hoppenthalerFriday, April 15th from 7- 9 pm at the downtown YMCAReading by poet John Hoppenthaler. Check the link for more info! 

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Meeting at Night The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And … Continue reading

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At a Dinner Party

At a Dinner Party With fruit and flowers the board is decked,    The wine and laughter flow; I’ll not complain — could one expect    So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers,    … Continue reading

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Provisions

Provisions What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey So here we are in thin raincoats and rubber boots On … Continue reading

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I Wish in the City of Your Heart

  I Wish in the City of Your Heart I wish in the city of your heart you would let me be the street where you walk when you are most yourself. I imagine the houses: It has been raining, … Continue reading

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