Tomorrow is the First Day of National Poetry Month!

Yes, indeed! April is National Poetry Month and I know just how to celebrate it -- by playing Haikubes! 🙂 A few months ago I bought Haikubes while shopping for my children's clothes. It was an adorable little box sitting all by itself on a clearance shelf of men's ties, Paw Patrol socks, and scented …

A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 25

On Reason and Passion Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931 And the priestess spoke again and said: Speak to us of Reason and Passion. And he answered, saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgement wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, …

A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 24

Your Name Winifred M. Letts, 1882 - 1972 When I can dare at last to speak your name It shall not be with hushed and reverent speech As if your spirit were beyond the reach Of homely merry things, kind jest or game. Death shall not hide you in some jewelled shrine Nor set you in marmoreal pomp …

A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 21

Donal Og Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory Translated from an anonymous eighth-century Irish poem It is late last night the dog was speaking of you; the snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh. It is you are the lonely bird through the woods; and that you may be without a mate until you find …

A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 20

  The Red Flower Henry van Dyke, 1852 - 1933 June, 1914 In the pleasant time of Pentecost, By the little river Kyll, I followed the angler’s winding path Or waded the stream at will, And the friendly fertile German land Lay round me green and still. But all day long on the eastern bank Of the river …

A Poem a Day Series – Day 16

Emancipation Day is a holiday in Washington DC to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act, which president Abraham Lincoln signed on April 16, 1862. It is annually held on April 16. On Liberty and Slavery George Moses Horton Alas! and am I born for this, To wear this slavish chain? Deprived of all created …

Books Transmit Values

I just learned about this event today and wish I could have attended. The above quote by Walter Dean Myers, a children's book author and best known for young adult literature reveals a lot about the way I started to feel when I realized that a lot of the books I read didn't reflect me in …