Tag Archives: National Poetry Month 2012

An Alphabet of Poets – Z is for Zagajewski – Part Two – Try To Praise The Mutilated World

June 3, 2012 – 11:12 pm

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Remember June’s long days And wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow The abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world – You watched the stylish yachts and ships; One of them had a long trip ahead of it, While salty oblivion […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – P is for Prado

April 23, 2012 – 3:36 pm

Seduction Poetry catches me with her toothed wheel and forces me to listen, stock still, to her extravagant discourse. Poetry embraces me behind the garden wall, she picks up her skirt and lets me see, loving and loony. Bad things happen, I tell her, I, too, am a child of God, allow me my despair. […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – A is for Ali

April 2, 2012 – 2:11 pm

  A is for Ali  – April 1 To celebrate National Poetry Month I will feature a new poet for each day of April.  I will be at my abecedarian best and go through the alphabet from a to z, followed by 4 random choices! The River Cloud On paper, on the sky, on the […]

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