I can’t celebrate National Poetry Month on this blog without something from Mary Oliver, one of my favorite poets. This one was a recent discovery for me. Click here to read “Forty Years” by Mary Oliver.

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My favorite poems are the ones about ordinary things. It’s easy to rhapsodize about a sunset or spring or love, but what about chopping onions? Today’s poem finds beauty and meaning in the latter. Click here to read “The Traveling Onion” by Naomi Shihab Nye. 

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God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God.    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;    And all is seared […]

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