Thursday, April 14, 2011

April is National Poetry Month

Did you know April is National Poetry Month? I try to acknowledge this every year. Visit http://www.poets.org/ for good ways to celebrate. Today happens to be "Poem in your Pocket" day. This morning Randi Zodow picked up this poem on the library counter and shared with me how she really liked it.
I Am Not Yours


I am not yours, not lost in you,

Not lost, although I long to be

Lost as a candle lit at noon,

Lost as a snowflake in the sea.


You love me, and I find you still

A spirit beautiful and bright,

Yet I am I, who long to be

Lost as a light is lost in light.


Oh plunge me deep in love - put out

My senses, leave me deaf and blind,

Swept by the tempest of your love,

A taper in a rushing wind.


by Sara Teasdale


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