April is National Poetry Month! I will be posting some of my favorite poems — one a day — during the month of April. Please comment, send suggestions and interact. Poetry is fluid! For more information about National Poetry Month, click here.
ACCENT: AIMLESS LOVE by Billy Collins
I am hardly unbiased when it comes to this poet. I’ve always admired Collins’s work, and became fully enamored of it when I heard him read some of his own poems on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Collins has a distinctive voice with a charming amount of sentiment, without being overly sentimental. Old Man Eating…
31 Days of Halloween – October 19, 2013
Tithonus By Alfred, Lord Tennyson The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of…
31 Days of Halloween – October 18, 2013
Here is a lesser known poem by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Spirits of the Dead BY EDGAR ALLAN POE I Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. II Be silent in that…
31 Days of Halloween – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.